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Gaby Brimmer: An Autobiography in Three Voices (HBI Series on Jewish Women)

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Gabriela Brimmer (1947-2000), born with cerebral palsy, communicated largely by typing with her left foot on an electric typewriter, and by using that foot to point at letters and numbers on an "alphabet board" at the base of her wheelchair. Raised by her mother, Sari, and Mexican caregiver Florencia Morales Sanchez, Gaby gained admission to Mexico City public schools, att ...more
Paperback , 200 pages
Published June 15th 2009 by Brandeis University Press
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Elizabeth
Oct 31, 2009 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: anyone who is disabled
ILL get this again
Gaby [videorecording:] : a true story. Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, [1988:], c1987. The story of Gaby's life and loves.


gaby can only communicate by using her toe to point to a board of letters or by useing her toe to key a computer
The three voices are Gaby, her lifelong nurse and her mother.
gaby died but her daughter is alive
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