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How to be Blind by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. How to be Blind. At the same time, a nurse surprised me with a talking book machine, a precursor to audio tape players. With my eyes patched and eyesight failing, I discovered books. Previously, I’d been a jock. At first, I read classics, just to raise my spirits and delight in the language and happy endings of Austen and Dickens, but soon I turned to a book entitled, Search for God. Enter Dottie. Dottie was an Arizonan, married to a wealthy friend of my parents. ...Ldquo...

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Guide Dogs by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. Here I am with Handley among my Seeing Eye classmates, their guide dogs and our instructor, Australian Peter Tomlins, January 2001. As angelic as Ursula was, she did have a sneaky mischief about her. All my dogs have stolen food and crept on beds and furniture, slipping off ever so quietly when they hear me coming. I know they’ve misbehaved by the warmth of the mattress or cushion! Flossie’s mistakes shocked and worried me. Seeing Eye trainers say that drivers h...On one ...

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10 Writing Lessons from Disability by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. 10 Writing Lessons from Disability. Publsihed in The Children's Writer. 1 Mine your negative experiences. Invariably, our greatest life challenges provide enough literary storms for multiple books and articles. (Six of my eight books and most of my essays). A journey with crisis and challenge is exactly what we give our fictional characters. We writers ask, “Where’s the pain for this protagonist? Rdquo; Then we ask, “Where’s additional pain? 2 Exploit All the Senses.

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Teacher Resources and Curriculum Guide for Do You Remember the Color Blue? by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. Do You Remember the Color Blue? Teacher Resources and Curriculum Guide. Do several of the Tricks from the Training Program. Observe a few of the Useful Tools, described in the book. Try to identify objects by touch only, such as coins. No peeking. Overcoming Difficulties: Discuss challenges faced by people you know or by famous people. How did they overcome them? What factors combined to allow them to cope? Many people think that dog guides make blind people perfectly ind...

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First Person: Please Don't Pet Flossie by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. First Person: Please Don't Pet Flossie. Check out a personal essay published in the Post-gazette:. First Person: Please Don't Pet Flossie. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Do You Remember the Color Blue? Mom’s Best Friend. Mom Can’t See Me. On My Own: The Journey Continues. Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Do You Remember the Color Blue? First Person: Please Don't Pet Flossie.

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Maggie's Whopper by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, 1992. Ages 4 to 8, Grades 1 to 2. Illustrated by Deborah Kogan Ray. School Library Journal, 1992. Here I am sitting on the pier of Greenwood Lake, the inspiration for Maggie’s Whopper. Beside me are Joel, about 9, and Leslie, 6. This is a picture of scenic Greenwood Lake in eastern Pennsylvania. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Do You Remember the Color Blue? Mom’s Best Friend. Mom Can’t See Me.

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Children's Author Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Do You Remember the Color Blue? Mom’s Best Friend. Mom Can’t See Me. On My Own: The Journey Continues. Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. Do You Remember the Color Blue? First Person: Please Don't Pet Flossie. 10 Writing Lessons from Disability. How to be Blind. Kid Readers: Super Critics. Rescued: A Bus Driver Saved Me. Breaking Down the Barriers.

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Sarah's Surprise by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. Jacket Copy: “Sarah and Mom decide to hike to Baldhead to pick mussels. It’s Dad’s birthday, and the black, shiny shells will be the perfect surprise for him. Sarah is excited, but nervous, too. What if she slips and falls? Mom reassures Sarah and encourages her. But at Baldhead something happens to Mom, and Sarah must help her.”. Atheneum; 1st ed. edition, 1990. Ages 4 to 8, Kindergarten to Grade 3. School and Library Binding 32 pages. Illustrated by Jill Kastner.

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Teacher Resources for She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. She Touched the World: Laura Bridgman, Deaf-Blind Pioneer. My newest book, co-authored with my husband, Bob Alexander, is a biography of the first successfully-educated Deaf-Blind person, fifty years before Helen Keller. Without sight, hearing, smell, or taste, Laura became the blueprint for future generations of the Deaf-Blind and all disabled people. In classrooms, training centers, and libraries, She Touched the World. Can be used to:. She Touched the World. Is written...

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Bio in Brief by Sally Hobart Alexander

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Let My Guide Dog Guide You Home. Bob was an assistant professor of English at Point Park College, now University, when I first met him in May 1973. A mutual friend fixed us up, so it was literally and figuratively a blind date. On one of our first dates, we went to a series of silent movies, and I stayed awake. Nothing like an English professor for good narrative during the silent parts of movies! We were married in June 1974. For the first two years, we rode everywhere on our tandem bicycle. Here is a p...