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2) Glasses
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"A nonfiction 'biography' of glasses, an everyday object that has become ubiquitous, starting with the discovery of the magnifying properties of glass through the development of the eye chart, plastic lenses, and contact lenses"--
7) Seeing
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Simple text and color photographs introduce young readers to the parts of the eye and how they work. Discusses how important the sense of sight is for understanding the world. Includes an activity, a glossary, and further resources.
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This program explains the principles of assisting people with speech, hearing, or vision impairments. Various speech impediments including misshapen palate, spastic dysarthria, and dysphasia are explored. Computer animation is used to show conductive and sensorineural deafness, along with the different types of assistance each requires. Hearing aids and cochlear implants are discussed and useful tips to assist the hearing-impaired are outlined. The...
10) What Ollie saw
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"Ollie knows he doesn't need glasses because he likes the world better the way he sees it. But will his parents and bossy sister see things his way?"--Publisher marketing.
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"From New York Times columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni comes a wise and moving memoir about aging, affliction, and optimism after partially losing his eyesight. One morning in late 2017, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni woke up with strangely blurred vision. He wondered at first if some goo or gunk had worked its way into his right eye. But this was no fleeting annoyance, no fixable inconvenience. Overnight, a rare stroke had cut off...
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Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
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