Subject: Disabilities
Traveling with service animals: by air, road, rail, and ship across North America
The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people […]
Read More
From the periphery: real-life stories of disability
From the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it’s like to be treated differently by society because of […]
Read More
About us: essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in […]
Read More
An invincible spirit: the story of Don Fulk
Profoundly deafened as an infant, Don Fulk didn’t learn his name or go to school until the age of ten. At the age of 18 […]
Read More
Between two worlds: my life as a child of deaf adults
In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often […]
Read More
Accessible America: a history of disability and design
Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb […]
Read More
Such a pretty girl: a story of struggle, empowerment, and disability pride
Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina LaSpina’s story–from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that […]
Read More
Haben: the Deafblind woman who conquered Harvard Law
With wit and passion, Haben, a disability rights lawyer, public speaker, and the first deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law, takes readers through her […]
Read More
Paris in America: a deaf Nanticoke shoemaker and his daughter
A memoir about a hearing daughter of a Deaf Nanticoke Indian, who grew up in Dover, Delaware’s black community in the 1950s and 60s. ~ […]
Read More
Have dog, will travel: a poet’s journey
A blind poet describes his relationship with his first guide dog and how it changed his life and gave him a newfound appreciation for travel […]
Read More