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Explore this shelf 02Lives in their own words
Explore this shelf 03Practical ideas, personal agency
Explore this shelf 04Support for the whole family
Explore this shelf 05Access, history & collective life
Explore this shelf 06Characters with lives to live
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Illustrated by Eduardo Trejos
A group of children finds ways to move through a world that does not always make room for everyone. This picture book introduces access, interdependence, and disability community through everyday encounters, with detailed illustrations and a glossary that can open up family or classroom conversations.
Illustrated by Karen George
Joe wants to play pirates, but other children keep asking about his missing leg. Written by a disabled author, this funny playground story gives children a way to think about curiosity, personal boundaries, and joining someone in play without demanding their medical story.
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
After a difficult school day, a boy who stutters walks beside a river with his father and finds a different way to understand his speech. Jordan Scott draws on his own experience in a picture book about frustration, connection, and being understood.
Illustrated by Kate Cosgrove
An autistic boy and his mother share an ordinary day using communication beyond spoken words. Tiffany Hammond invites readers to notice the meaning in tablets, gestures, and other forms of expression, offering a starting point for conversations about listening and respecting different ways of communicating.
Rebekah Taussig examines daily life in a disabled body through personal essays about belonging, relationships, accessibility, and representation. Her memoir makes room for ordinary experiences alongside structural barriers, inviting readers to question the familiar stories they have been told about disability.
Judith Heumann tells the story of her fight to attend school, work, and participate fully in public life. Her memoir connects personal experience with collective organizing, showing how disabled people built a movement that challenged exclusion and changed the possibilities available to later generations.
Haben Girma recounts family history, travel, education, and the search for meaningful connection as a Deafblind person. With humor and practical examples of access, her memoir explores the relationships and inventive communication approaches that shaped her path to disability rights advocacy.
Alice Wong brings together essays, conversations, images, and other fragments of her life as a disabled Asian American activist. The book moves among food, popular culture, care, access, and organizing, creating a layered portrait of a life shaped by community and a commitment to change.
KC Davis offers practical ways to approach household tasks when energy, attention, or support is limited. Short sections and flexible routines invite readers to separate care tasks from personal worth and make their homes work for their circumstances, with an emphasis on function and self-compassion.
Devon Price combines personal experience, research, and other autistic people's stories to examine masking and the pressures behind it. Reflective exercises explore interests, values, and relationships, making this a resource for readers thinking about autistic identity, accommodation, and living with greater room for self-expression.
Drawing on her own experience of chronic illness, Toni Bernhard shares Buddhist-inspired practices for responding to uncertainty, frustration, and changed expectations. This reflective guide focuses on relating to difficult experiences with greater kindness and can be read by both ill people and their caregivers.
Tiffany Yu connects personal experiences with practical questions about language, bias, and access. Moving from individual interactions to workplaces and wider systems, the book offers readers concrete ways to notice ableism and participate in building communities where disabled people can belong and contribute.
Autistic contributors reflect on childhood, education, identity, and the support they wished adults had offered. This collection gives parents and caregivers a chance to listen across many experiences, with attention to acceptance, belonging, emotional needs, and helping children grow without erasing who they are.
Heather Lanier writes about raising her daughter Fiona, who has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and reconsidering her assumptions about development and a good life. Through the details of family routines, communication, and care, the memoir explores uncertainty, love, and making space for a child's own possibilities.
Carol Stock Kranowitz introduces sensory processing differences and the ways they can affect children's everyday experiences. This updated guide offers families and educators language for noticing patterns, understanding challenges, and considering forms of support, with discussion of overlapping experiences such as autism and ADHD.
Barry Prizant encourages readers to understand autistic behavior in the context of a person's experiences, needs, and attempts to cope. The expanded edition includes more autistic perspectives and adult concerns, offering families and educators an approach centered on understanding, relationships, and individual strengths.
This anthology gathers first-person writing from disabled people across many backgrounds and forms of expression. Edited by Alice Wong, it brings everyday life, creativity, public testimony, and activism into conversation, offering readers a broad entry point into contemporary disability culture and the people shaping it.
Kim E. Nielsen places disabled people at the center of United States history, drawing on historical records and social history. The book examines how ideas about ability and belonging have influenced American life, giving readers context for conversations about citizenship, exclusion, and disability rights.
Disabled journalist Ben Mattlin explores how disability culture, representation, and activism have developed since the Americans with Disabilities Act. Through interviews and reporting, he considers both changes in public life and exclusions within the movement, with attention to the people pressing for broader participation.
Emily Ladau offers an approachable introduction to disability language, history, identity, and everyday access. This handbook helps readers recognize ableism, think through common interactions, and make inclusion more practical, while keeping disabled people's perspectives at the center of the conversation.
At a residential school for Deaf students, teenagers and the headmistress navigate relationships, family expectations, and threats to their community. Sara Nović's novel weaves language, identity, access, and first love into a story about the connections people build when they can finally understand one another.
Eleven-year-old Addie learns about the women accused of witchcraft in her Scottish hometown and campaigns for a memorial. Written by autistic author Elle McNicoll, this middle grade novel connects questions about whose stories are heard with friendship, family, and the determination to speak up.
Nat Beacon loves musical theater and uses a wheelchair. After moving to a new town, she joins a production of Wicked and navigates auditions, rehearsals, access, and new friendships. This middle grade story follows her enthusiasm for performing and the work of finding her place.
After a graffiti mural leads to a school change, Deaf teenager Julia faces unfamiliar classmates and an escalating artistic rivalry. Whitney Gardner's illustrated novel explores self-expression, friendship, trust, and communication through a protagonist whose art gives her another way to claim space in the world.
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