Speaking out on health
Subtitle: an anthology
By: [by students of Literacy Volunteers of New York City].
Contributors: Literacy Volunteers of New York City.
Series: New writers' voices
Publisher: Signal Hill; Literacy Volunteers
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Diseases -- Popular works; Health -- Popular works; Readers for new literates; Readers (Adult); High interest-low vocabulary books
Genres: Popular works.
Description: Contains true stories by adult new readers about health problems they have faced, how they found help, and how they learned to cope with their problems.
Table of contents: title: My year of terror / Naresa Foster; title: Sickle cell anemia and me / Forrestine Bragg; title: Arthritis / Emily Wall; title: A bad experience with tuberculosis / Calvin Miles; title: My aching back / a student; title: My arthritis / Odessa Overby; title: My alcoholic friend / Nick Orlando; title: My accident happened at the factory / Angel Tirado; title: Me and the Special Olympics / Tony Phillips; title: My struggle for independence / Antonio Slaughter; title: Open heart surgery / Ricardo Orengo; title: I'm not sick, I'm just down for now / Pearlie Walters; title: How I dealt with depression / Fran DeBlasio.