Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

I Fell in Love with Hope

By: Lancali

Narrated by: Lancali

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The heart-wrenching TikTok sensation about a group of terminally ill patients who vow to live the rest of their lives to the fullest and find a love that transforms and transcends.

Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, a group of terminally ill patients embraces the joys within their reach: friendship, freedom, rebellion. Each in their... Read more

Mad World

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Narrated by: Micha Frazer-Carroll

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Mental health affects us all, and yet it remains elusive as a concept.Does getting a diagnosis help or hinder it? How is mental well-being, which is often incredibly personal, driven by widespread societal suffering? Can it be a social construct and real at the same time?These are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she... Read more

My Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Journal Journey with Retinitis Pigmentosa

By: Pamela Edwards

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Pamela Edwards was going blind.What job could she do without vision?How would she support herself and her children?When Pamela received her retinitis pigmentosa diagnosis, it sent her world into chaos. As a single mother of three small children, she had to fight. Giving into the blindness was never an option. She needed to find a way but feared... Read more

Leg

By: Greg Marshall

Narrated by: Greg Marshall

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy



Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries,... Read more

Everyone Is Good At Something

By: Polly Meadows

Narrated by: Chloe Elmore

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas is struggling at school with his reading and writing because he has dyslexia. It makes him sad that the other kids can read, and he is finding it hard. He gets home from school and talks to Mom about it. She helps Thomas discover that everyone struggles with some things, and everyone is good at other things.  Read more

The Other Woman

By: Rosebud Alford Turner

Narrated by: Tracie Frank

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The book chronicles, in poetic form, the life of a woman who in three distinct and significant life events feels she is "the other woman" to her husband, to her child, and even to herself rather than the woman who is "good enough" just as she is. Not until she loses her eyesight does she finally allow herself to stop putting herself aside and be... Read more

The Secret Summer Promise

By: Keah Brown

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Williams has got this. The Best Summer Ever. Last summer, she spent all her time in bed, recovering from the latest surgery for her cerebral palsy. She’s waited too long for adventure and thrills to enter her life. Together with her crew of ride-or-die friends, and the best parents anyone could ask for (just don’t tell them that), she’s... Read more

Autism and Your Teen

By: Blythe Grossberg, PsyD

Narrated by: Gina Rogers

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This book offers supportive advice for parents and caregivers of older children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as they navigate the path from the tween years to young adulthood.



If you have a child with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), your journey together through the teenage years to adulthood may be complicated—not to mention confusing,... Read more

Blind Without Barriers

By: David Hume & Peter R Murray

Narrated by: Robert de Graaw

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Sent blind soon after birth David Hume stubbornly refused to live the limited life well-meaning elders and social norms expected. 'I do not wake in the morning and regret I'm blind. No, I wake and look to another win in a busy life.' To date, that encompasses years in a blind institute, two marriages, grieving for two outstanding wives, founding... Read more

CALM - Deep Alpha Meditation: Music for Energy Work, Brainwave Sync, Meditation, Studying and Healing

By: BES - Brainwave Entrainment Studios

Narrated by: BES - Brainwave Entrainment Studios

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

11 tracks with binaural sound waves produce an array of gentle, pleasant, and very calming sensations that listeners will want to repeat over and over while sleeping, meditating, studying, and working. 
This compilation contains ideal instrumental music to help you sleep, study, focus and relax before your big test, presentation or exam. It can... Read more

Southpaw Sully

By: Steven Carman

Narrated by: Josh Horowitz

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Sully, a remarkable teenager who refuses to let his disability define him, as he embarks on a mission to honor his twin brother's memory and make history on the baseball field.
"Southpaw Sully is irresistible. It's funny, smart, and ultimately wise—about baseball and about life."—Mick Cochrane, author of THE GIRL WHO THREW BUTTERFLIES, a... Read more

Inside the Dyslexic Mind

By: Laughton King

Narrated by: Jonathan Moffat

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Laughton King shares his understanding of the dyslexic mind from his own lived experience as a dyslexic child, an angry adolescent, a therapist and eventually an author. When describing what it is like to be dyslexic, he is includes himself. ‘We think in pictures, we chase words around the pages of books, and we have trouble finding any sensible... Read more

Hearing Happiness

By: Jaipreet Virdi

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently... Read more

Becoming Autism Friendly

By: Rosalyn Roy

Narrated by: Blake Priddle

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In an obscure town on the edge of the North Atlantic, two women formed a community group that developed simple, practical changes to make sports, education and medical care more inclusive and accessible for children with autism and other sensory disorders. Initially envisioned as a small support group for families and caregivers, Autism Involves... Read more

Behavior is Communication

By: Ava Brooke

Narrated by: Margaret Wakeley

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered why your child is misbehaving? All you want is for your child to feel calm and relate to other children.With it's easy-to-follow strategies, Behavior Is Communication is a must-read for any parent or teacher who wants to support their kids with emotional regulation and create a more peaceful and harmonious... Read more

Your Child is Not Broken

By: Heidi Mavir

Narrated by: Heidi Mavir

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook is passionately and evocatively read by the author, Heidi Mavir.

An updated edition of the Sunday Times bestseller.

Your Child Is Not Broken is THE book for parents who need permission to do things differently.

An unapologetic, deeply moving manual for parents of neurodivergent children from Heidi Mavir, a late-identified,... Read more

A Very Modern Family

By: Carrie Grant & David Grant

Narrated by: Carrie Grant & David Grant

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES

'The most extraordinary parenting guide of our time' DAILY MAIL

A breakout book on the ever-expanding concept of family

Carrie and David Grant have an extraordinary family story to tell. They have four children, one of whom is adopted, and all have come with a... Read more

Parenting a Child with Autism

By: Barry Barbera

Narrated by: Reyna M Starr

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

What caused my child’s autism? What will my child’s future be like? How do I explain autism to others? If this sounds like you, then keep reading! Parenting a Child with Autism: A Must Have Parents Guide to Understanding and Managing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will provide you answers to these questions and more! Autism occurs... Read more

The Unlikely Village of Eden

By: Emma Nadler

Narrated by: Lisa Larsen

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A hopeful memoir about adapting when life doesn't go to plan, redefining family, and creating your own path.



One afternoon, Emma Nadler gets a call from her daughter's doctor that changes her life forever. Faced with the realities of raising a child with a rare genetic condition, Nadler must confront her preconceptions of motherhood and her... Read more

Where You See Yourself

By: Claire Forrest

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Where You See Yourself combines an unforgettable coming-of-age tale, a swoon-worthy romance, and much-needed disability representation in this story about a girl who's determined to follow her dreams.By the time Effie Galanos starts her senior year, it feels like she's already been thinking about college applications for an eternity-after all,... Read more

Unshakeable Will

By: Yahye Siyad

Narrated by: Maddy Breen

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Born as the third blind child to an impoverished family in Somalia, Yahye Siyad's story is full of triumphs and tribulations that allowed him to embrace his life to the fullest.
The story begins before he was even born, travels abroad alone at the age of seven, and endures over twenty years of family separation due to war.
In this fascinating... Read more

Rowdy in the Library

By: Yvonne Fletcher

Narrated by: Lydia Walker

Length: 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes you just have to run! But not everywhere is a good place for that. Rowdy the Raccoon learns about when it’s alright to sprint and when it’s time to be calm. Read more

Cuando perdí mis ojos marrones

By: Marta Bustos Góngora

Narrated by: Marta Bustos Góngora

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Una impactante novela basada en hechos reales. Una impactante novela basada en hechos reales. Cuando Marta se encuentra al otro lado del mundo, estalla la pandemia de COVID-19 y piensa que tal vez pasarán años antes de que pueda volver a reunirse con su familia en España. Todo deja de tener importancia el día que, haciendo jabón artesanal, se... Read more

Strong Female Character

By: Hanna Flint

Narrated by: Hanna Flint

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Hanna Flint speaks from the heart in this personal and incisive reflection on how cinema has been the key to understanding herself and the world we live in. A staunch feminist of mixed-race heritage, Hanna has succeeded in an industry not designed for people like her. Interweaving anecdotes from familial and personal experiences—episodes of... Read more