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Eye Can Write
Eye Can Write: A memoir of a child’s silent soul emerging | Jonathan Bryan
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Can you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, inside you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless. Jonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of speech or voluntary movement. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to laboriously choose individual letters, and through this make his thoughts known. In Eye can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure. Foreword by Michael Morpurgo
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Emilymdxn
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Powerful window into the inner world of a boy with cerebral palsy that kept him from speaking or having a way of communication until he was 8. His memoir of struggle for education and his parents and carers who worked with him to communicate is a story we almost never get to hear from people in their own voices. For someone so young to have made peace with their short life expectancy and write about faith and struggle like this is really rare.

Mishu94 Should I go for it? 5y
sblbooks Thanks for sharing. I have CP, I'm definitely going to read this. 5y
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Imagine being locked in a body that tries to destroy you and not being able to communicate?Since birth. Now, at twelve, his body is still the enemy, but he has learned to read and communicate with the help of many.This book is his plea for help for physically damaged children everywhere to be given the kind of education that maximizes them instead of settling for the bare minimum as happens now. Please buy,Read, and be a voice for the voiceless!