Book by Seeing Eye Graduate: "To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities"
Item Number: 305
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
To the Left of Inspiration: Adventures in Living with Disabilities presents an honest account of what it's like to live with a disability, but does so with a sense of humor that is unique to its author, Seeing Eye graduate Katherine Schneider. Fifty-four million Americans have chronic illnesses or disabilities requiring them to make accommodations in the ways they live their lives. Each of them, as well as their families and friends, find that at some point, they must adjust to a new illness or disability. You'll learn from a woman blind from birth about activities of her daily life and about how she turns the mundane into an adventure.
If you have a disability yourself, this book won't teach you how to overcome your disability, but you will laugh in recognition and hope. Come along with Kathie and her Seeing Eye dog on their adventures; your life will be enriched.
Special Instructions
Katherine Schneider has been blind since her premature birth in 1949 and has had fibromyalgia for over ten years. She was the first blind student to graduate from the Kalamazoo, Mich., public school system in 1967 and was a valedictorian as well as a National Merit scholar. Three years later she graduated with honors from Michigan State University with a BS in psychology. After receiving her PhD in clinical psychology from Purdue University, she has worked at four universities: three of them public and one private.
She has taught psychology courses from freshman psychology to the graduate level and has counseled, supervised, and administered university counseling services. Kathie has presented papers at national professional meetings and authored articles and book chapters on such topics as counseling people with disabilities and religion and visual impairment. She has won awards for her professional work from the Courage Center, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and the University of Wisconsin System Regents, among others.
Katherine has recently retired and is enjoying serving on seven state and local boards, reading novels, and trying to live the Red Hat Society philosophy. She is proud to have been a Seeing Eye dog user for the past 30 years.