I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes

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Summary: Requiring all my future special education teachers to read t
Review: I could not put this down. Moving account of a person's struggle to be seen and heard!! I am a Professor of Special Education at SUNY Plattsburgh and all my students are required to read this book.

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Summary: Requiring all my future special education teachers to read t
Review: I could not put this down. Moving account of a person's struggle to be seen and heard!! I am a Professor of Special Education at SUNY Plattsburgh and all my students are required to read this book.

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Summary: it was inspiring
Review: It was the most inspiring book that I have read. I hope everyone out there will get a chance to read this book.

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Summary: A remarkable book by a remarkable woman.
Review: Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer is, in my estimation, one of the most remarkable women about whom I have ever read. Not only did she survive separation from a loving but misinformed family and the horrors of Belchertown State School, Mrs. Sienkiewicz-Mercer accomplished something seldom achieved by the institutionalized disabled. She not only left the institution, she rose high above it. In this book she uses her eyes to tell her story.

I am saddened to report that Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer passed away in the summer of 1998. She never spoke her entire life but she will be sorely missed by those she reached with her words. Many thanks to Steven Kaplan for helping her tell her story.

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Summary: Thank -You
Review: Thank you all so much for your praise of my sister's book. She would have been thrilled to have read these.

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Summary: Review of "I Raise My Eyes To Say Yes"
Review: This book was truly inspiring. The main character displayed courage and strength as she persevered through the challenges of living in an institution in the late 1960-70's. This book will give anybody with a little adversity in their life a new perspective of what it means to be faced with hardships.

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Summary: Raise Your Eyes
Review: This was an agonzing graphic depiction of what life is like to be severely disabled. With little family support Ruth is treated like an object subjected to inhuman living conditions and abused at a state institution. It is also a story of triumph as Ruth fights to reach goals and finally reaches some independence.