Disabled reads
Black bird fly away : disabled in an able-bodied world
Hugh Gregory Gallagher ; foreword by Geoffrey C. Ward.
A collection of essays by Hugh Gregory Gallagher that reflect the struggles he went through as he suffered polio as a young man and discuss the problems he has encountered as a disabled person in society.
A special kind of hero : Chris Burke's own story
Chris Burke and Jo Beth McDaniel.
Chris, the co-star of the ABC series "Life Goes On," tells of his story and his work which has transformed America's image of the mentally handicapped.
Ron Kovic : antiwar activist
Nathaniel Moss.
A biography of the young veteran who wrote of his struggle to create a meaningful life after being crippled during the Vietnam War.
Riding the bus with my sister : a true life journey
Rachel Simon.
Rachel Simon chronicles the experiences she had and shares the lessons she learned during the year she spent riding the bus which her mentally handicapped sister rides on each day.
Listening with my heart
by Heather Whitestone with Angela Elwell Hunt.
The first physically handicapped woman to win the Miss America Pageant tells the story of her deafness, love of ballet, education, and challenge to fulfill her God-given potential.
The water dancers
Terry Gamble.
Rachel Winnapee, a poverty-stricken, sixteen-year-old Native American orphan, goes to work at the opulent March summer home in the summer of 1945, where she is assigned the task of caring for Woody March, an emotionally shattered young man who is haunted by the injuries and memories of his time fighting in World War II.
In this sign
Joanne Greenberg.
A loving, newly married couple leave the school for the handicapped and find the hearing world an immense barrier. Four generations describe the family's struggles to survive.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Mark Haddon.
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes.
After being mentally retarded for all of his thirty-two years, Charlie Gordon undergoes an operation designed to change his life.
Of human bondage
W. Somerset Maugham.
Philip Carey, a sensitive, talented, club-footed orphan brought up by an unsympathetic aunt and uncle, struggles for independence and attempts to become an artist. He becomes obsessed with Mildred, a waitress, and finally becomes a country doctor.
The heart is a lonely hunter
by Carson McCullers.
A deaf mute who has lost his only friend to a hospital for the insane becomes the recipient of the confidences of several other town residents.
Johnny got his gun
Dalton Trumbo.
A young man who was severely wounded in World War One thinks about his life and about the horror and futility of war and its toll on him.
I never promised you a rose garden
Joanne Greenberg (Hannah Green).
Chronicles the three-year battle of a 16-year-old schizophrenic girl who fights her way back to reality.
A Beautiful Mind
Dramatic biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Moving violations : war zones, wheelchairs, and declarations of independence
John Hockenberry.
The memoir of a paraplegic journalist, describing his experiences as a reporter for National Public Radio in exotic locations, and the challenges of living in a wheelchair.