Ivy Tech Libraries: Disability Awareness: Selected E-Books

EBooks on Disability

Barriers and Belonging by Michelle Jarman (Editor); Leila Monaghan (Editor); Alison Quaggin Harkin (Editor)
ISBN: 9781439913895
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
What is the direct impact that disability studies has on the lives of disabled people today? Barriers and Belonging provides thirty-seven personal narratives that explore what it means to be disabled and why the field of disability studies matters.
Disability Discrimination by James Roland
ISBN: 9781682823811
Publication Date: 2018-08-15
Disability discrimination occurs when people with physical or mental disabilities are given fewer opportunities or unfairly treated because of their disabilities. Examples can be found in schools that don't make accommodations for disabled students, buildings that are hard to maneuver in, and workplaces that keep people with disabilities from advancing. Disability Discrimination examines what this discrimination entails, how it is manifested, how widespread it is, how it affects real people, and efforts to address this discrimination.
Hidden Talent by Mark L. Lengnick-Hall
Call Number: 323.3 FLEISCH 2011
ISBN: 9780313086953
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
A history of the struggle for disability rights in the United States. Based on interviews with over one hundred activists, The Disability Rights Movement tells a complex and compelling story of an ongoing movement that seeks to create an equitable and diverse society, inclusive of people with disabilities.
Specific Learning Disabilities by Yitzchak Frank
Call Number: HV1552 .D56 2014
ISBN: 9780199342037
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
This book is a concise but comprehensive review of Specific Learning Disabilities, with a special attention to the biology of these diverse conditions.
Positively Purple by Kate Nash
ISBN: 9781398608481
Publication Date: 2022-10-03
Sharing a compelling personal story, Kate Nash offers practical advice for how employers can build environments of trust and support for those with disabilities, how employees with disabilities can advocate for themselves and flourish in the workplace and how those without disabilities can be true allies.
What You Need to Know about Autism by Christopher Cumo
ISBN: 9781440862939
Publication Date: 2018-11-26
From Publisher: This book offers an accessibly written introduction to autism that make it an indispensable resource for anyone whose life has been affected--directly or indirectly--by this condition. Autism is a spectrum of developmental disorders that can range from mild to severe. 'What You Need to Know about Autism' is a part of Greenwood's Inside Diseases and Disorders series.

Books for Young Readers

Looking Up [3] by P. J. Gray
ISBN: 9781680214888
Publication Date: 2017-08-26
Wes notices that his neighbor can't use her treehouse because she's in a wheelchair. What will he do to help her?
Stephen Hawking by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara; Matt Hunt (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781786033338
Publication Date: 2019-02-05
In this book discover the life of Stephen Hawking, the genius physicist and author. When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge.
Include Me [2] by Evan Jacobs
ISBN: 9781630780906
Publication Date: 2015-08-27
Fighting for YES! by Maryann Cocca-Leffler; Vivien Mildenberger (Illustrator); Judith Heumann (Afterword by)
ISBN: 9781419755606
Publication Date: 2022-08-09
A picture book biography celebrating the life and work of disability rights activist and icon Judith Heumann, highlighting one of her landmark achievements--leading the historic 504 Sit-in in 1977.
I Am Not a Label by Cerrie Burnell; Lauren Mark Baldo (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780711247451
Publication Date: 2020-07-07
In this stylishly illustrated biography anthology, meet 34 artists, thinkers, athletes, and activists with disabilities, from past and present.
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz
ISBN: 9780271086309
Publication Date: 2019-11-27
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world.