Awareness

Everybody's Different: Understanding and Changing Our Reactions to Disabilities by Nancy B. Miller & Catherine C. Sammons

This is an excellent book to help us enrich our interactions with people who have disability differences. The authors explore how our reactions to and beliefs about disabilities influence our progress toward an inclusive society and share their innovation approach to becoming more at ease with the concept of disability.

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Different perspectives

Reflections from a Different Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew

This book is written by 40 adults with disabilities and what it feels like to grow up with a disability and what their families and communities did to help them become successful. In a world of parenting books written mostly by professionals or fellow parents, this book provides a unique perspective from people with disabilities themselves.

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Song of Our Children

Song of Our Children is a documentary film about inclusive education of kids with special needs. The film vividly portrays the struggles and successes of inclusion by accompanying four students with disabilities, preschool through high school, who learn alongside their non-disabled peers. For a free resource & discussion guide, check out www.landlockedfilms.com.

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Fatherhood

Father's Voices: Journey from the Heart fills a special space in the world of materials for parents of children with disabilities. More often than not, books and DVDs are written by or for mothers. This unique DVD by the Fathers Network showcases four dads and how their children have changed their lives.

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Voices from the Edge

O'Brien, R. (2004). Voices from the edge: Narrative about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford University Press.

When many people think of the Disability Rights movement the first thing they think of is the American's with Disabilities Act. At face value the ADA seems to be an expression of the goals of the disability rights movement. But what is the outcome of the ADA in the lives of people with disabilities? In Voices from the Edge Ruth O'Brien brings together personal accounts of discrimination and pairs it with legal as well as social research to paint a rich picture of how people with disabilities are being impacted by this law.

For an in-depth review check out Richard Scotch's for the American Political Science Association's Law and Political Book Reviews.

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Aunt Katie's Visit

Banister, K.R. (2003). Aunt Katie's Visit. St. Louis, Mo.: Access-4-All, Inc.

Elementary School students everywhere will enjoy Katie Banister's Aunt Katie's Visit. This book lets kids know what a regular "day in the life" is like for Aunt Katie, who became paralyzed from the chest down in 1990. It also does a great job of teaching kids to see the person and not just the disability. This upbeat story is a great way to help kids be more accepting of others and foster disability awareness.

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