Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

A Place for Everything

By: Anna Wilson

Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell’ Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister A searing account of a mother’s late-diagnosis of autism – and its reaching effects on a whole family. ‘[A] vividly told and profoundly affecting memoir’ The... Read more

The Connected Parent

By: Lisa Qualls & Karen Purvis

Narrated by: Lisa Qualls

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

There Is Hope for Every Child, Every Parent, and Every Family

Parenting under the best of circumstances can be difficult. And raising children who have come to your home from “hard places,” who have their own set of unique needs, brings even more challenges. You may have discovered that the techniques that worked with your birth children are not... Read more

Raising a Rare Girl

By: Heather Lanier

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 

Kate Bowler's The Everything Happens Book Club Pick! 

Award-winning writer Heather Lanier's memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.

Like many women of her generation,... Read more

If Blood Should Stain the Wattle (The Matilda Saga, #6)

By: Jackie French

Narrated by: Edwina Wren

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'.
As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for Matilda Thompson to face her ghosts and the life... Read more

Schulzeit ohne Stress! Hörbuch mit Schülercoaching

By: Andreas Winter

Narrated by: Andreas Winter

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Coaching statt Nachhilfe! Liebe Eltern, vertraut euren Kindern einfach! Denn das Zauberwort für eine erfolgreiche Schulzeit lautet: Eigenverantwortung. Winters innovativer Ansatz "Coaching statt Nachhilfe" verzichtet auf belastende Paukerei und setzt stattdessen eine positive Motivationsspirale in Gang: Die Schüler erkennen Sinn und... Read more

Dyslexia for Kids: Understanding How to Bring Out the Best in Dyslexic Kids and Adults

By: Dr. Dale Pheragh

Narrated by: Michael Borge

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"A must read for parents, educators, and people with dyslexia."
Did you know that many successful architects, lawyers, engineers—even bestselling novelists—had difficulties learning to read and write as children?
Learning to understand and bring out the best in kids and adults with Dyslexia is the definitive activity workbook to improve phonemic... Read more

Gifted Child

By: Angela Wayning

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Giftedness can be a blessing or a struggle. The stimulation of the senses is different in a gifted child. They experience life, impulses and emotions differently. But there are ways to play into those talents and provoke curiosity and fascination in preschoolers and older children. This book covers some of those suggestions.
Sometimes, parents... Read more

Gifted Child

By: Angela Wayning

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Is your child gifted? And how do you know that?In this comprehensive guide, you will learn more about common qualities of gifted children, and more specifically, the symptoms of such a distinct brain. Through the tips you will be given, you will be able to detect those attributes even in the earlier years, so that you can be prepared for the... Read more

Gifted Child

By: Angela Wayning

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short and simple guide, you will learn more about the qualities of a gifted person. These attributes typically already show in a man or woman’s childhood, and the developmental stages in which they grow.
When you want to understand your highly intelligent child, it’s easy to brush off the problems that come with it, such as... Read more

Gifted Child

By: Angela Wayning

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Where do you go if your child is gifted? Should you do anything differently?
This question lies at the heart of this book, as well as other sub-topics that relate to it. Your knowledge will increase about giftedness, and solutions will be provided for a problematic child who is looking for the right therapist. Someone with an expert opinion and... Read more

Gifted Child

By: Angela Wayning

Narrated by: Casey Wayman

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

What causes a gifted child to be emotionally driven and highly empathetic? How come an intelligent person is typically self-motivated and self-disciplined to the extreme? The explanation lies in the fact that gifted people make a lot of connections in their brains. These connotations from interrelated facts and observations cause them to become... Read more

Jesus the Author

By: Sonja Wood

Narrated by: Sonja Wood

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is an adventure story of high drama, deep emotion and intense trauma. Pain, tears, confusion and desperation are frequent companions. The reader is invited to share the innermost feelings of a mother watching her children suffer. Nevertheless, joy and laughter keep bursting through the prevailing struggles of life. The reference point... Read more

The Power in You

By: Henry Fraser

Narrated by: Fearne Cotton & Richard Goulding

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sunday Times bestselling author...

'Henry Fraser is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' J.K. Rowling

'What a story of transformation, inner power and inspiration' Jonny Wilkinson

Mouth artist, motivational speaker and author of the inspirational memoir The Little Big Things, Henry Fraser, explores the transformative power of... Read more

Being Heumann

By: Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

Narrated by: Ali Stroker

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony-award winning actress Ali Stroker reads the story of Judy Heumann—one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history

A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s activism—from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington—Being Heumann recounts... Read more

Raising an Organized Child

By: Damon Korb

Narrated by: Steve Wojtas

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Organized children are raised, not born. That’s the philosophy behind this confidence-building, sanity-saving book. Fostering organized thinking in your child will help with concrete concerns (think a tidier bedroom!) and build critical life skills like learning to plan and grasping the big picture. Dr. Korb’s 5 Steps to Raising an Organized... Read more

The Emotional Child: A Fail-proof Approach for Parenting, Understanding and Nursing a Traumatized Child

By: Larry Jane Clew

Narrated by: Darcey Kobs

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Do you know that children who experience emotional stress need to feel safe and loved?
All parents desire to provide this type of thriving home for their children and family. However, when parents don't have the right understanding of the consequences of trauma, they could misinterpret their child’s behavior and find themselves frustrated or... Read more

Autism in Heels

By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the... Read more

Such a Pretty Girl

By: Nadina LaSpina

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel... Read more

The Opposite of Certainty

By: Janine Urbaniak Reid

Narrated by: Ginny Welsch

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason’s diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis.All Janine Urbaniak Reid ever wanted was for everyone she loved to be okay so she might... Read more

Obsessed

By: Allison Britz

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Until sophomore year of high school, fifteen-year-old Allison Britz lived a comfortable life in an idyllic town. She was a dedicated student with tons of extracurricular activities, friends, and loving parents at home. But after awakening from a vivid nightmare in which she was diagnosed with brain cancer, she was convinced the dream had been a... Read more

Healing Love

By: Sonja Wood

Narrated by: Sonja Wood

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

My objective in writing this book is to share how God’s love has been our greatest source of support and strength through our life’s journey. I emphasise how God has been our councillor, comforter, director and ever-present source of strength in times of suffering. Read more

What Makes Us Stronger

By: Freya Lewis

Narrated by: Freya Lewis & Lucy Fallon

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

'Freya Lewis is extraordinary' Katie Piper
'A love letter to the NHS' Lorraine Kelly
'An unflinching story of grief, survival and love' Daily Mail's YOU Magazine,
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The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her.

Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester... Read more

Tornado Brain

By: Cat Patrick

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heartfelt and powerfully affecting coming of age story, a neurodivergent 7th grader is determined to find her missing best friend before it's too late.

Things never seem to go as easily for thirteen-year-old Frankie as they do for her sister, Tess. Unlike Tess, Frankie is neurodivergent. In her case, that means she can't stand to be... Read more

Do I Have Asperger's?

By: JD Fenrir

Narrated by: Joshua Macrae

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Think you might have Asperger's?Let me help you find out!More of us have it than you suspect.It could be you! Read more