Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

Gov. Markell: Hiring More People With Disabilities

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A new report from the National Governor's Association says states should do more to employ the 54 million Americans living with a disability, among whom only 20 percent are currently employed or looking for a job. Judy Woodruff interviews Delaware Gov. Jack Markell about his push to boost accessibility to the labor market. Read more

Bloom

By: Kelle Hampton

Narrated by: Kelle Hampton

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There is us. Our Family. We will hold our precious gift and know that we are lucky . . .From the outside looking in, Kelle Hampton had the perfect life: a beautiful two-year-old daughter, a loving husband, and a thriving photography career. When she learned she was pregnant with their second child, they were ecstatic. But when their new daughter... Read more

Back in the Fight

By: Joseph Kapacziewski & Charles W. Sasser

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb.

On October 3, 2005, Kapacziewski and his soldiers were coming to the end of their tour in Northern Iraq when their convoy was attacked by enemy fighters. A grenade fell through the gunner's hatch and exploded, shattering... Read more

Raising Cubby

By: John Elder Robison

Narrated by: John Elder Robison

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dad’s relationship with his equally offbeat son—complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble
 
Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the... Read more

Funny, You Don't Look Autistic

By: Michael McCreary

Narrated by: Michael McCreary

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Diagnosed with ASD at age five, McCreary... Read more

Tuck Triumphant

By: Theodore Taylor

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This heartwarming story will be especially meaningful to any child dealing with issues of cross-cultural adoption or physical disabilities. Fourteen-year-old Helen Ogden tells the story of the miraculous friendship that grows between her blind dog Tuck and her adopted brother Chok Do, a deaf Korean orphan. Read more

The Still Point of the Turning World

By: Emily Rapp

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of... Read more

I Funny

By: James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein

Narrated by: Frankie Seratch

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 bestselling author James Patterson doles out the laughs in the first book in the hit series! Middle-schooler Jamie Grimm faces bullies and self-doubt as he chases his dream of becoming the world’s greatest comedian.   Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't... Read more

Colin Fischer

By: Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz

Narrated by: Jesse Eisenberg

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Encyclopedia Brown from the screenwriting duo behind X-Men: First Class and Thor!

Colin Fischer cannot stand to be touched. He does not like the color blue. He needs index cards to recognize facial expressions. But Colin is Wayne Connelly's best--and only--hope of proving his innocence after Wayne is accused of blowing up a birthday cake in the... Read more

Twilight

By: Henry Grunwald

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1992, when Henry Grunwald missed a glass into which he was pouring water, he assumed that he needed new eyeglasses, not that the incident was a harbinger of darker times. But in fact Grunwald was entering the early stages of macular degeneration -- a gradual loss of sight that affects almost 15 million Americans yet remains poorly understood... Read more

Life Happens Next

By: Terry Trueman

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuck in Neutral, a Printz Honor Book, introduced the world to Shawn McDaniel, a fourteen-year-old kid with cerebral palsy. But what happens next?Shawn's got a new perspective on life. But no one has a clue. That's because they can see only his wheelchair, his limp body, his drool. What they don't see? His brain, with perfect auditory memory.... Read more

Smart but Scattered

By: Peg Dawson, Ed.D. & Richard Guare, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

There's nothing more frustrating than watching your bright, talented son or daughter struggle with everyday tasks like finishing homework, putting away toys, or following instructions at school. Your "smart but scattered" child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger. Drs. Peg Dawson and Richard Guare have great... Read more

Stuck in Neutral

By: Terry Trueman

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This ""intense reading experience""* is a Printz Honor Book.Shawn McDaniel's life is not what it may seem to anyone looking at him. He is glued to his wheelchair, unable to voluntarily move a muscle—he can't even move his eyes. For all Shawn's father knows, his son may be suffering. Shawn may want a release. And as long as he is unable to... Read more

Father's Day

By: Buzz Bissinger

Narrated by: Buzz Bissinger

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger shares the moving and uplifting tale of his cross-country journey with his adult savant son who suffered brain damage at birth.

Buzz Bissinger’s twin sons were born three minutes—and a world—apart. Gerry, the older one, is a graduate student preparing to become a teacher. His brother Zach has... Read more

Temple Grandin

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. It wasn't until years later that she was diagnosed with autism, a brain disorder that makes communication difficult. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a brilliant scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career has revolutionized... Read more

The Autism Revolution

By: Dr. Martha Herbert & Karen Weintraub

Narrated by: Denice Stradling

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Move beyond conventional thinking about autism. . . .
 
After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and... Read more

Expecting Adam

By: Martha Beck

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"He says you'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been by remaining closed."The messenger is a school janitor with a master's in art history who claims to be channeling "from both sides of the veil." "He" is Adam, a three-year-old who has never spoken an intelligible word. And the message is intended for Martha Beck, Adam's... Read more

Riding the Bus with My Sister

By: Rachel Simon

Narrated by: Rachel Simon

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ten years since Rachel Simon first invited the world to board the bus with her and her sister, Cool Beth, readers across the globe have been moved by their story. Now, in an updated edition with fifty pages of new content, Rachel Simon reflects on changes in her life, Beth's life, and the lives of individuals with intellectual and... Read more

Boy Alone

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Extraordinary… Greenfeld details what it is like to grow up next to a ‘beautiful’ boy with whom he can never play and never connect and who never returns his love, but who, nonetheless, is the most important fact of his life.”
— Michael Thompson, Ph.D., co-author of Raising Cain “Beautiful and powerful …. A masterpiece of literature and memory.”... Read more

Beautiful

By: Katie Piper

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'

When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.

But then she met Daniel Lynch on Facebook and her world quickly turned into a nightmare ...

After being... Read more

My Dyslexia

By: Philip Schultz

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of a Pulitzer Prize winner’s triumph over disabilityDespite being a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008, Philip Schultz could never shake the feeling of being exiled to the “dummy class” in school, where he was largely ignored by his teachers and peers and not expected to succeed. Not until many years later, when... Read more

The Orange Houses

By: Paul Griffin

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Tamika Sykes?Mik to her friends (if she had any). She?s hearing impaired and way too smart for her West Bronx high school. She copes by reading lips and selling homework answers, and looks forward to the time each day when she can be alone in her room drawing. She?s a tough girl who never gets close to anyone, until she meets Fatima, a... Read more

Samurai Kids #1: White Crane

By: Sandy Fussell

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Can a one-legged boy become a great samurai warrior? Meet some unique aspiring champions in this kick-off to an exciting new martial arts series.Niya Moto is the only one-legged samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. The one school that will accept him is the Cockroach Ryu, led by the legendary sensei Ki-Yaga. He... Read more

Samurai Kids #3: Shaolin Tiger

By: Sandy Fussell

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The White Tiger Temple is under threat. To help the Shaolin monks, Sensei Ki-Yaga and the whole gang of samurai kids embark on a perilous journey across the Sea of Japan to China. But they soon discover that getting there is only half the battle. An enemy awaits them: a former student of Sensei’s named Qing-Shen, China’s Warrior, who is now the... Read more