Books and Publications

These publications are focused on supporting people with specific health conditions and disabilities including magazines targeted towards disabled people, their families, and caregivers of special interest to those with disabilities.

Disabled World provides listings of a wide range of professional practical resources and references for people who work with children and adults who have disabilities, and for people who have disabilities themselves.

Publication topics include books, videos, and dvd's on topics such as; ADHD, communication disorders, developmental disabilities, sensory impairments, acquired brain injury, autism, cerebral palsy, fetal alcohol syndrome, physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and other topics including; special needs books, disability magazines, cognitive disabilities and associated conditions, as well as general health and disability publications from around the World.

Also included in this category are various applications and forms for several Government departments as well as links to informational sources.

Further Information Regarding Books and Publications

Health Communication Video - Language Access Barriers
Joint Commission, HHS Team Up in Language Access Education Effort - New video urges health care organizations to break language access barriers.

Human Anthrax Vaccines - A Call To Arms
The Human Anthrax Vaccine Program must be stopped. Scott Miller and Company has completed the feature film "A Call to Arms:2009 Edition" and the one-hour television documentary "Fatal Immunity: The Human Anthrax Vaccine Story" to inform the public about the clear and present danger of top secret government science turned into for-profit human anthrax vaccines with no accountability to its victims. It is available for world-wide licensing by motion picture and television distributors and exhibitors.

Once Upon a Challenge: Hearing is Believing
Nancy Burns was an average 11-year-old sixth grader with 11-year-old concerns, navigating the waters of middle school in Missouri. Everything about her life was ordinary, that is, until Nancy suddenly and traumatically lost her sight.

New Mobility Magazine Celebrates 20 Years of Publication and Employing People with Disabilities
Award-Winning Disability Lifestyle Magazine Celebrates 20 Years of Publication - And 20 Years of Employing People with Disabilities.

Lighting the Way for the Disabled
For most people, simply staying upright on a downhill ski slope is achievement enough. Turning and looking up the hill we have just traversed, we swell with confidence and pride, knowing that we have done what so many are unable to do. Now, imagine doing the same thing without the benefit of both of your legs, your arms, or even your sight. Would you still be able to make it the bottom? Better yet, would you be able to win Olympic Gold?

MS Survivor Amelia Davis - Faces of Osteoporosis and the Stories Behind Them
MS Survivor and photographer Amelia Davis turns her lens on those living with osteoporotic disease in her book, Faces of Osteoporosis.

Ability Lane - Disability History, Culture, Care and Experience
Ability Lane - Disability History, Culture, Care and Experience; A Gift to the Disability Community At Large.

Free Download of Books from Google in EPUB Format
Google has announced that over a million out of copyright books in Google Books can now be downloaded in the open EPUB format making these public domain books more accessible. The EPUB format is supported by an increasing number of devices, including e-readers, netbooks and phones.

Understanding Disability: Inclusion, Access, Diversity, and Civil Rights
This long-overdue book is exactly what is needed for an introductory course in disability studies. The text is well researched and readable, and even has an international perspective. It is also instructive for those who may have doubts about the academic legitimacy of disability studies and its focus on inter-disciplinarity.

Turning on Learning: Approaches for Multicultural Teaching Plans for Race, Class, Gender and Disability
Put multicultural theory into practice. Theories about diversity don't mean anything until you actually put them into practice. Now with Grant and Sleeter's Fourth Edition of Turning on Learning, you'll learn how to apply the principles of multicultural education in your classroom.

Raymond's Room: Ending the Segregation of People With Disabilities
DiLeo encourages a society of more independent living and working choices to enrich the lives of the disabled. Professionals resistant to change may argue they are providing a service that no one wants to do... DiLeo exposes the true face behind the altruistic mask of governmental agencies.

Handbook of Developmental Disabilities
This is a much-needed work that cuts across traditional disability classifications and focuses on what can be done and for whom. The editors have assembled a superb group of internationally recognized experts to provide cutting-edge perspectives on key issues in the field of developmental disabilities.

The New Disability History: American Perspectives (History of Disability)
With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the editors write, awareness of the disabled reached an all-time, if controversial, high. As one of the contributors notes, however, the disabled have always been a part of America's history, even if they have been missing from the histories we've written.

Disability Rights and Wrongs by Tom Shakespeare
Tom Shakespeare has produced a work of mature scholarship that advances our thinking about the fundamental issues in Disability Studies. The clarity and balance of his argument challenges others to raise the level of discourse in the field. Disability Rights and Wrongs is a must read.

The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wendell has significantly expanded the scholarship on impairment, a critical and underdeveloped area in disability studies. Even within the feminist framework, our definitions, knowledge, perceptions, and treatments of disabilities require rethinking.

Adult Learning Disabilities and ADHD by Robert L. Mapou
Adult Learning Disabilities and ADHD reference book comprehensive in coverage of issues related to diagnosis and treatment of learning and attention disorders in adults.

Extraordinary Bodies by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Provides complex answers to the puzzle of American images of disabilities from the nineteenth century to the present. This is a solid, useful book which all readers interested in the relationship between society and culture must read.

No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
Documents the political progress of the issue with stories about several of the nation's estimated 35 million disabled people. Included are polio-afflicted activists, Special Olympics competitors, armed services veterans and elderly people who owe their survival to medical and technological advances.

Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
A fascinating series of personal accounts a rich and multifaceted overview of disability rights law, and of the experience of living with a disability in the contemporary United States. Voices from the Edge should be of particular interest to students in law, public policy, political science, and disability studies, all of whom would benefit from this mulitfaceted approach to disability and discrimination.

Cultural Locations of Disability - Book Review
I learned something new and unanticipated from almost every page of this book. Snyder and Mitchell's Cultural Locations of Disability lays out in an extraordinary fashion the historical cultural locations of disabled citizens: charity systems, institutions for the feebleminded, the disability research industry, medical and popular film representations of disability, and current academic trends.

Owning It: Stories About Teens with Disabilities
I hate it when teachers shout. What's his problem? I looked up at Mr. Forester, who was huffing down the aisle toward my desk. First period on Monday, you'd think he'd have the decency to let us ease back into the grind. School's enough of a drag without having to plunge right into quadratic equations, the Great Depression, or the use and misuse of the gerund.

Disability - Key Concepts
Barnes and Mercer raise the bar for any future discussions of the social model of disability. Their well-grounded work uses the social model to analyze the classic questions of the definition, production, representation, experience, stratification, exclusion, politics and globalization of disability.

Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
Focusing on the everyday life of people with disabilities Charlton argues barriers to independent living are embedded in larger social and economic environment.

Google LDN - Book by Joseph Wouk on Low Dose Naltrexone
The only way to find out about Low-dose Naltrexone (LDN) is to Google the word itself; thus the title of Joseph Wouk's book - Google LDN.

U.P. Book by R.A. Riekki
U.P. by R.A. Riekki was recently published on Ghost Road Press. The main character in the novel has cerebral palsy.

Accessible Publications for Individuals with Print Disabilities
Benetech CEO Jim Fruchterman will announce new partnerships with universities and publishers that will substantially increase the availability of accessible print materials for individuals with print disabilities at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference.

How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider's Step by Step Guide
These requirements for evidence, from your doctor and others that are clearly and concisely indicated, do not change. There will be no need to revise and issue subsequent editions as long as the SSI and Social Security Disability programs continue.

The Disability Studies Reader, Second Edition
This is an indispensable collection, bringing together foundational arguments in disability studies and provocative new work from emerging young scholars in the field. If you're curious as to why (and how) disability studies has stimulated so much debate in the humanities, The Disability Studies Reader is a great place to start finding out.

Chronic Illness or Disability - Who Hit the Down Button
Who Hit the Down Button? is written by a person with a disability. It covers 18 topics from a personal perspective, and each topic is followed by three questions. Topics include: We Are Survivors, Special People: Caregivers, Fatigue: the Life Robber, Less Stress = More Energy, The Glass is Half Full, Walking: The Magical Attraction, Shopping While Sitting, and Contentment.

Always Looking Up - Book by Michael J. Fox
Fifteen years after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Michael J. Fox tells his personal story of how he turned his challenges into opportunities in his new book, "Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist."

Applying for Social Security Disability Benefits
A Practical Guide to Social Security Disability Benefits, written by a young woman who went through the entire process herself when she became seriously ill and had to apply for Social Security Disability Benefits, clearly outlines all the pitfalls of the application process.

Brain Injury Books and Resources
Brain Injury Books including information resources on traumatic brain injury concussion blast injury and PTSD. Resources on TBI for families, educators, students, therapists, and caregivers in military bases, veteran services, hospitals, rehabilitation programs, schools, community, and home.

Chasing Normal - A Guide for the Newly Disabled
Author, Dinah Chaudoir Federer has released her new book: Chasing Normal - A Guide For The Newly Disabled And For Those Who Love Them to help the newly disabled navigate the long and winding road that comes with adjusting to a new disability.