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Disability Awareness

Books for Children

Blindness

Being Blind by Peter White J 362.41 WHI

Listen for the Bus: David's Story by Patricia McMahon J 362.41 MCM

Living With Blindness by Patsy Wescott J 362.41 WES

Fiction titles

The Blind Hunter by Kristina Rodanas J K-3 ROD

Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield J Pb G

Listen for the Singing by Jean Little J Fic LIT

Looking Out For Sarah by Glenna Lang J K 3 LAN

Sees Behind Trees by Michael Dorris J Fic DOR

Deafness

Amy, the Story of a Deaf Child by Lou Ann Walker J 362.42 WAL

Being Deaf by Maggie Wooley J 362.42 WOO

I'm Deaf and it's O.K. by Lorraine Aseltine J 362.42 ASE

Sign Language by Laura Greene J 419 GRE

What is the Sign for Friend? by Judith Greenberg J 362.42 GRE

Fiction titles

Moses Goes To School by Isaac Millman J K 3 MIL

Pretty Saro by M. A. Windsor J Fic WIN

Physical Disabilities

About Physical Disabilities by Joy Berry J 362.4 BER

Being In A Wheelchair by Lois Keith J 362.42

Mary Maroney Hides Out by Suzy Kline J Fic KLI (stuttering)

Move Over Wheelchairs Coming Through by Ron Roy J 362.4 ROY

Muscular Dystrophy by Gail Lemley Burnett J 616.7 BUR

Precious Time: children living with muscular dystrophy by Thomas Bergman J 616.74 BER

Stretching Ourselves by Alden R. Carter J 362.4 CAR (cerebral palsy)

Fiction titles

My Brother Made Me Do It by Peg Kehret J Fic KEH
(juvenile rheumatoid arthritis)

Quit It by Marcia Byalick J Fic BYA (Tourette syndrome)

A Smile for Andy by Nan Holcomb J Parent HOL (series)

The Storm by Marc Harshman J Fic HAR (wheelchair use)

Under the Shadow by Anne Knowles J Fic KNO (muscular dystrophy)

Wheel Wizards by Robert Hirschfeld J Fic CHR (wheelchair use)

Down Syndrome

Living With Down Syndrome by Jenny Bryan J 616.85 BRY

What's Wrong With Timmy by Maria Shriver J 362.3 SHR

Fiction titles

Dustin's Big School Day by Alden R. Carter J K 3 CAR

What About Me?: a novel by Colby Rodowsky J Fic ROD

We'll Paint the Octopus Red by Stephanie Stuve Bodeen J K 3 STU

Russ and the Almost Perfect Day by Janet Elizabeth Rickert J K 3 RIC (series)

My Friend Isabelle by Eliza Woloson J K-3 WOL

Autism

Fiction Titles

Ian's Walk: a story about Autism by Laurie Lears J K-3 LEA

Looking After Louis by Lesley Ely J K-3 ELY

Andy and His Yellow Frisbee by Mary Thompson J K-3 THO

Learning Disabilities

ADD/ADHD

The ADD Book for Kids by Shelley Rotner J 618.92 ROT

Attention Deficit Disorder by Alvin Silverstein J 618.92 SIL

Help is on the Way by Marc Nemiroff J 618.92 NEM

Learning Disabilities - Nonfiction

Dyslexia by Alvin Silverstein J 616.85 SIL

Having a Learning Disability by Margaret Flynn J 371.9 FLY

Just kids: Visiting a class for children with special needs by Ellen B. Senisi J 362.4 SEN

Views From Our Shoes: growing up with a brother or sister with special needs J 362.1 VIE

What Do You Mean I Have a Learning Disability? by Kathleen Dwyer J 371.9 DWY

Fiction titles

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos J Fic GAN

Keep Stompin' till the Music Stops by Stella Pevsner J Fic PEV

M.E. and Morton by Sylvia Cassedy J Fic CAS

Niagara Falls, or Does It? andI Got a D in Salami by Henry Winkler J Fic WIN

Pay Attention, Slosh! by Mark Smith J Fic SMI

Spaceman by Jane Cutler J Fic CUT

Sparks by Graham McNamee J Fic MCN

Trout and Me by Susan Shreve J Fic SHR

Will the Real Gertrude Hollings Please Stand Up? by Gertrude Greenwald J Fic GRE

Videos on Physical and Learning Disabilities

Beethoven Lives Upstairs J Vid BEE (deafness)

Ennis' Gift J Parent 371.9 ENN (learning disabilities)

The Miracle Worker J Vid MIR (blindness/deafness)

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