Disability category: 614 books
Trust the Dog
Rebuilding Lives Through Teamwork with Man's Best Friend
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
A groundbreaking look at the special bond between guide dogs and those who thrive with their help
From a pioneering guide dog organization comes the first book to explore one of the most profound and inspiring relationships between humans and animals.
In Trust the Dog, the Fidelco Guide...
Rick Hansen's Man In Motion World Tour
30 Years Later—A Celebration of Courage, Strength, and the Power of Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
A beautifully illustrated 30th anniversary celebration of Rick Hansen's Man in Motion Tour, which broke barriers for people with disabilities and inspired ordinary citizens to realize impossible dreams.
On March 21, 1985, world-class wheelchair marathoner and multiple Paralympic medalist Rick...
by Edna Edith Sayers
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Edna Edith Sayers has written the definitive biography of T. H. Gallaudet (1787–1851), celebrated today as the founder of deaf education in America. Sayers traces Gallaudet’s work in the fields of deaf education, free common schools, literacy, teacher education and certification, and children’s...
The Forgotten Society
Lives Out of Sight in Nursing Homes, Prisons, and Mental Institutions: A Portfolio of 92 Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A prominent artist ventured behind locked doors to portray three "forgotten" social classes: the elderly, people in mental institutions, and the prison population. Alan E. Cober began his career in the 1960s, when illustration took a turn toward a new expressionism. Influenced by the works...
Authoring Autism
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies...
Mean Little deaf Queer
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she...
For the Benefit of Those Who See
Dispatches from the World of the Blind
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
"In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind....She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind,...
And Neither Have I Wings to Fly
Labelled and Locked Up in Canada's Oldest Institution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The shocking true story of the institutionalization and abuse of children and adults with intellectual and physical handicaps in Canada’s oldest provincial institution in Orillia, Ontario. Daisy Lumsden and her family were such victims, along with over ten thousand children, including infants, and...
by Mary L. Day Arms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl. First published in 1878. Autobiography of a blind woman, followed by the essays: Help the Blind Help Themselves, Sight of the Blind, How do the Blind See, Invocation to Light, Is It More to Lose Eyes than the Ears? and Education of the Blind. It also...
The Art of Being Deaf
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Concerned about aspects of her romantic relationships, Donna McDonald consulted with a psychologist who asked, “Your hearing loss must have had a big impact on you?” At age 45, with a successful career in social work policy, McDonald took umbrage at the question. Then, she realized that she never...
Not Fade Away
A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Even a darkening world can be brilliantly lit from within.
Born with a rare genetic mutation called Usher Syndrome type III, Rebecca Alexander has been simultaneously losing both her sight and hearing since she was a child, and was told that she would likely be completely blind and deaf by...
Living with Autism
Sammie's Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This book was written to try to show the evolution of methods of teaching autistic children. When we lived in Michigan in 1971, the special education teachers were aware of autism and already had programs for their special needs. When we moved to California, we found the special education teachers...
Women from Another Planet?
Our Lives in the Universe of Autism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2003
Mention the word autism and the room suddenly turns silent. Its the dreaded A word.
Peoples attention turns to late night TV public service ads declaring that autistic children are imprisoned by autism and need curing at all cost. Recent autobiographies have helped dispel this dire description...
Look at Me… I am a Person
I Speak, Feel and Think
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
A story of a young lady growing up with Cerebral Palsy and how she regularly disproves the label ‘disabled.’ Look at Me is a very human account of how society treats people who are different. Shawna magnetizes us as she recounts her experiences with supportive family, meaningful relationships, struggling for independence, and finding her voice.