Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

No Barriers

By: Erik Weihenmayer & Buddy Levy

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 Colorado Book Awards finalist in Creative Nonfiction, and National Bestseller and Honorable Mention Award Winner in the Outdoor Literature category of the 2017 National Outdoor Book Awards (NOBA)

“A beautiful book about family and finding a way to achieve more than you ever thought possible.” —Brad Meltzer, New York Times bestselling... Read more

Love and First Sight

By: Josh Sundquist

Narrated by: Pat Young

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In his debut novel, YouTube personality and author of We Should Hang Out Sometime Josh Sundquist explores the nature of love, trust, and romantic attraction.

On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Porter accidentally groped a girl on the stairs, sat on another student in the cafeteria, and somehow drove a classmate to... Read more

Painting in the Dark

By: Rachelle Burk

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1953, Esref Armagan was born completely blind to a poor family in Istanbul, Turkey. He received no formal education and spent his childhood days in his father’s shop, where he developed the curiosity to create and draw. He experienced the world through touch and learned to visually reproduce his surroundings, including color, shadows, and... Read more

What Makes Us Unique?

By: Jillian Roberts

Narrated by: Jillian Roberts

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Our conversations with children about cultural, religious and physical differences are more important than ever, and they need to start at an early age, but we know it can be difficult to know where to begin. What Makes Us Unique? provides an accessible introduction to the concept of diversity, teaching children how to respect and celebrate... Read more

All in Pieces

By: Suzanne Young

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes a “tremendously moving” (Booklist) novel about a girl struggling to deal with anger issues while taking care of her younger brother with special needs.

“Anger-management issues.”

That’s how they classified Savannah Sutton after she drove a pencil into her ex-boyfriend’s hand because he... Read more

Nujeen

By: Nujeen Mustafa & Christina Lamb

Narrated by: Raghad Chaar

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Prize-winning journalist and the co-author of smash New York Times bestseller I Am Malala, Christina Lamb, now tells the inspiring true story of another remarkable young hero: Nujeen Mustafa, a teenager born with cerebral palsy, whose harrowing journey from war-ravaged Syria to Germany in a wheelchair is a breathtaking tale of fortitude, grit,... Read more

Cloud and Wallfish

By: Anne Nesbet

Narrated by: Will Ropp

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems.Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn’t really... Read more

Life as Jamie Knows It

By: Michael Berube

Narrated by: Brian Roberts

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life

Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool class what he would like to be when he grows up, he... Read more

Il mio amico Alfred

By: Simon Sword

Narrated by: Lara Mengozzi

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Alfred è un simpatico orsetto che fin dalla nascita è costretto a muoversi solo grazie a una stampella, a causa di una rara malattia. Questa sua disabilità però non lo ha mai vincolato nella vita di tutti i giorni, egli infatti vive la quotidianità in maniera del tutto spensierata e positiva. Il trasferimento dal piccolo villaggio di Orsino alla... Read more

The Awakening of HK Derryberry

By: Jim Bradford

Narrated by: Milton Bagby

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

2017 Audie Winner: Inspirational/Faith-Based Non-Fiction Audiobook and Earphones Award from Audiofile MagazineThe Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of the amazing relationship between a successful business executive and a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that... Read more

Glülu's Abenteuer im Wald

By: Ann Sunday

Narrated by: Markus Seidel

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dieses Hörbuch handelt von Glülu, einem ganz besonderen Wesen. Auf Glülu´s Weg durch den Wald trifft er einige seiner Freunde, wie Karl das Eichhörnchen oder die Familie Bär . Mit ihnen erlebt er einige Abenteuer und meistert manches Problem. Sehr unterhaltsam und leicht verständlich gestaltet, werden den Kindern, auf beispielhafte Art, die... Read more

Ugly

By: Robert Hoge

Narrated by: Robert Hoge

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny, moving, and true story of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face that's perfect for fans of Wonder—now available in the U.S.
 
When Robert Hoge was born, he had a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs. Surgeons removed the tumor and made him a new nose from one of his toes.  Amazingly, he... Read more

The World in Flames

By: Jerald Walker

Narrated by: C. S. Treadway

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.

It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying.... Read more

How Phoenix became the most autism-friendly city in the world

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Resnik has helped changed the face of autism in his hometown. When he was diagnosed as a child, his parents poured their hearts into getting him therapy, even launching an organization, in hopes he would outgrow his challenges and find his place as an independent adult in the world. Instead, they’ve helped shape the world around him.... Read more

Giving Adults with Autism Skills to Build Independent Lives

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Josh, 36, arrived at First Place Transition Academy, he had never taken public transportation on his own, much less held down a paying job. But a new pilot program is empowering adults with autism to overcome hurdles to independence. Special correspondent John Donvan, co-author with Caren Zucker of In a Different Key: The Story of Autism,... Read more

Der Bär, der auf einer Mülltonne saß

By: Gabi Saler

Narrated by: Gabi Saler

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Bär, der auf einer Mülltonne saß Hörbuch für Kinder und Erwachsene Geeignet ab 6 Jahren Autorin/ Sprecherin: Gabi Saler, Produktion/Musik: Thomas Lenssen, Coverbild: Sheba Kaufmann. Kurzinhalt: Um ein Haar wäre der Bär da gelandet, wo alle Sachen enden, die Menschen nicht mehr brauchen: auf der Müllkippe. Sein Retter heißt Benjamin, ist acht... Read more

Saving Delaney

By: Andrea and Keston Ott-Dahl

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Ott-Dahl, who with her partner Keston Ott-Dahl has two other children, agreed to act as a pregnancy surrogate for a wealthy Silicon Valley family. When pre-natal testing revealed the baby would be born with Down Syndrome, Andrea was urged to abort the child. Instead, the Ott-Dahl’s chose to keep and raise the daughter they would call... Read more

The Boys in the Bunkhouse

By: Dan Barry

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of... Read more

The Underdogs

By: Melissa Fay Greene

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene comes a profound and surprising account of dogs on the front lines of rescuing both children and adults from the trenches of grief, emotional, physical, and cognitive disability, and post-traumatic stress disorder.The Underdogs tells the story of Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four... Read more

Bite Me

By: Ally Hilfiger

Narrated by: Ally Hilfiger

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network, and had acted in an off-Broadway play. But now,... Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child, Third Edition

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

2022 Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner

The groundbreaking book that explains Sensory Processing Difference (SPD)--and presents a drug-free approach that offers hope for parents--now revised and updated.

Does your child exhibit...

Over-responsivity--or under-responsivity--to touch or movement? A child with SPD may be a "sensory avoider," withdrawing... Read more

The Un-Prescription for Autism

By: Janet Lintala

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, more than 50,000 U.S. families receive an autism diagnosis. On top of turmoil and worry, they share the same urgent question: What can we do to help our child?

The answers parents find can be contradictory…even dangerous. The conventional approach (employed by too many pediatricians) is to medicate difficult behaviors into... Read more

Out of My Mind

By: Sharon M. Draper

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

This special movie tie-in edition showcases a new cover with an image from the Original movie soon to be available on Disney+!

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!
“Unflinching and realistic.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From award-winning author Sharon Draper comes a “gutsy, candid, and compelling” (School Library... Read more

Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition

By: Mary Sheedy Kurcinka

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides parents with the most up-to-date research, effective discipline tips, and practical strategies for raising spirited children.Do you ever wonder why your child acts the way he or she does? Are you at a... Read more