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The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [13] [14] 2015 Kaz Brekker Six of Crows: Leigh Bardugo: Kaz has a limp and uses a cane. He also experiences post-traumatic stress disorder.
Professor Ian Davidson and colleagues analyzed the depiction of disabled characters in a collection of 19th children's literature from the Toronto Public Library. [5] The researchers found certain common characteristics of disability representation in 19th-century children's literature: disabled characters rarely appeared as individuals, but are usually depicted as impersonal groups and ...
Fictional characters with mental disorders (20 C, 151 P) Fictional characters missing an eye (1 C, 56 P) Fictional characters with musculoskeletal system disorders (1 C, 5 P)
More recently, in 2023, Lego updated their popular Lego Friends line to include eight characters with a range of disabilities, some visible and some invisible. Lego chose not to name the ...
The person with the disability may be the protagonist or a secondary character. Definition of disability: Dr. Schneider has intentionally allowed for a broad interpretation by her wording, the book "must portray some aspect of living with a disability, whether the disability is physical, mental, or emotional."
Freak the Mighty is a young adult novel by Rodman Philbrick.Published in 1993, it was followed by the novel Max the Mighty in 1998. The primary characters are friends Maxwell Kane, a large, developmentally disabled, but kind-hearted boy, and Kevin Avery, nicknamed "Freak", who is physically disabled but very intelligent.
Prosthetics, the artificial replacement of organic limbs or organs, often play a role in fiction, particularly science fiction, as either plot points or to give a character a beyond normal appearance. Numerous works of literature, television, and films feature characters who have prosthetics attached.
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