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"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
From original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and...
From original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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This series explores disability in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. This book explores what disability means and covers different types of disabilities both visible and invisible. Engaging inquiry-based sidebars encourage students to LOOK, THINK, MAKE A GUESS, ASK QUESTIONS, and CREATE. Books are authored by writers with disabilities, feature accessible text, and was developed in partnership with Easterseals who is leading the way...
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Imagine that you are a parent of a child with no visible disability, but whose experiences of everyday life present constant challenges. What may be typical activities for most people are a struggle, often resulting in social, emotional, and academic problems. Sensory Processing Disorder, a complex brain disorder, affects one in twenty children. They experience sensations--taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, movement and body awareness--vastly differently...
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"This comprehensive handbook reviews the major theoretical, methodological, and instructional advances that have occurred in the field of learning disabilities. With contributions from leading researchers, the volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge on the nature of learning disabilities, their relationship to basic psychological and brain processes, and how students with these difficulties can best be identified and treated. Findings are reviewed...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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The late Zig Ziglar delivers life-changing wisdom and guidance in this compilation of touching stories about people who overcame disabilities and disadvantages, or who overcame all odds in fields from which they were excluded. These heartfelt stories teach us the lessons of a lifetime and guide us toward finding our own contentment. Zig reveals the surest path to happiness and helps your untapped joy and gratefulness for life become visible. In Happiness...
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Mango Media
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Tools for People with Disabilities from a Person with a Disability "Access Your Drive and Enjoy the Ride is fun, practical, and no-nonsense."-Stephanie Thomas, TEDx Speaker and founder, stylist, and editor-in-chief of the disability fashion lifestyle website, CUR8ABLE #1 New Release in Physically Disabled Education Lauren "Lolo'' Spencer provides a candid and real inside look into the life of being a person with a disability. This disability advocate...
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Stillhouse Press
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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"In Between Spaces", Stillhouse Press's first ever anthology, centers the experiences of thirty-three disabled poets, short-story writers, and essayists as they navigate the physical and emotional complexities of disability, chronic illness, neurodivergence, and mental illness. Compiled by an editorial team of disabled writers, this timely collection of often-overlooked voices celebrates joy, freedom, and the power of agency, while at the same time...
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Go Make A Change
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Do you want to help your child with a disability live a more happy and fulfilling life? Raising kids with disabilities is hard… this book makes it a lot easier.There are many different kinds of disabilities. There are physical and mental disabilities are more visible and disabling than others but all require an extra amount of attention and action, which can be very overwhelming for parents of a kid with a disability…This book was made to make...
14. Dandelion Heart
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Debut Books
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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A love letter to all the minds and bodies the world is still trying to force into a mould long broken. Dandelion Heart is an eye-opening collection of poignant essays and poetry that grapples with disability in an identity-driven world. Exploring powerful themes ranging from body image and self-esteem to sex, relationships, and mental health, author and disability rights advocate, Kelly Vincent, draws on her own experiences as an autistic and physically...
15. Nothing Special
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This account of two siblings, one with Down syndrome, growing up in 1970s Connecticut. Nothing Special is a disarmingly candid tale of two sisters growing up in the 1970s in rural Connecticut. Older sister Chris, who has Down syndrome, is an extrovert with a knack for getting what she wants, while the author, her younger, typically developing sister, shoulders the burdens and grief of her parents, especially their father's alcoholism. Dianne Bilyak...
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Breakwater Books Ltd
Pub. Date:
2016
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English
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In the fictional village of Rocky Point, Cape Breton, just after WWII, the Briar family keeps a secret. Locked in his room, Joseph Briar, a child with visible and non-visible disabilities, is hidden from the community. And what Alfie Johns discovers through Joseph's window will lead him to love and a future framing beauty in photographs. Harkening back to Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Beatrice MacNeil...
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TSPA The Self Publishing Agency Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Disability Is Human is your gentle guide to accessibility through the lens of real, lived experiences of disabled people and their loved ones. Disability is not an "other" experience - one in four people experience a disability at any given time - and ranges from visible to invisible and temporary to life-long. Through data and stories, Dr. Cawthon provides the context and insights to understand the who, why, and how of accessibility. After reading...
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Indiana University Press
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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How does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures enabling society's shared notions of heteronormative masculinity? In the United States, the Second World War functioned as a key moment in the emergence of modern understandings of disability, demonstrating...
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Publisher:
TSPA The Self Publishing Agency Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Disability Is Human is your gentle guide to accessibility through the lens of real, lived experiences of disabled people and their loved ones. Disability is not an "other" experience - one in four people experience a disability at any given time - and ranges from visible to invisible and temporary to life-long. Through data and stories, Dr. Cawthon provides the context and insights to understand the who, why, and how of accessibility. After reading...
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Valois J. Vera
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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'I, The Revolution', from Valois J. Vera (aka "Crip Lyrical") is a collection of poems that screams for justice for marginalized people. Vera champions liberation and grapples with identity, chronic pain, community, the impact of isms, and how to make the world more accessible for all. In the end, Vera comes to the conclusion that to be disabled is to be revolutionary. This collection ties in many social justice movements and shows that crip liberation...