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
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, attended the prestigious National Autonomous University of Mexico, and became a key figure in launching Mexico's disability rights movement. With the text structured by renowned writer Elena Poniatowska to alternate Gaby's voice with those of her mother and Florencia, this volume is both the memoir of an extraordinary woman and a unique and imaginative form of autobiographical writing.
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Paperback
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200 pages
Published
June 15th 2009
by Brandeis University Press
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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