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Can you link me with you favorite series, clips and videos, stories, and books about living with and/or "overcoming" a disability? For our morning basket time I want to spend some time talking about people living with disabilities.

 

My son is 7 and is beginning to see and understand his own disabilities for the first time. I have been trying to explain to him that we all have our own abilities and disabilites. I want to teach him the power of a positive outlook and perseverance and that his disabilities are not the end of the story. Thanks so much!

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Extraordinary People with Disabilities (by Deborah Kent)

A book at a gr. 4-6 reading level, so perfect for reading aloud to a 7yo. It has 48 short (3-4 page) biographies of famous people who overcame disabilities. You could spend 1-2 days per biography, reading all or 1/2 the bio at a sitting, and also have time to discuss. :)

 

ALA (American Librarians Association) list of Children's Books about the Disability Experience

Book list is divided into sections for younger readers, middle school readers, and young adult readers, with a short description of each title.

 

Teacher Vision: List of Children's Books About Disabilities

Book list is marked for reading levels: AC (Adult Reads to Child), JE (Juvenile Easy Reader), JF (Juvenile Fiction), YA (Young Adult, and A (Adult). Each title has a short description of each title. Includes titles about learning disabilities, as well as physical disabilities.

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In no particular order, a book list:

 

Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin Jr.

Hello Goodbye Dog by Maria Gianferrari

Chang and the Bamboo Flute and Bird Boy by Elizabeth Starr Hill

Just Because by Rebecca Elliott

The Hickory Chair by Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Nathan's Wish by Laurie Lears

The Storm by Marc Harshman

The Jazz Man by Mary Hays Weik

The Prince Noah books by Silke Schnee

Mandy Sue Day by Roberta Karim

What Color is the Wind? by Anne Herbauts

My Friend Isabelle by Eliza Woloson

Look Up! by Jung Jin-Ho

The Moses books by Isaac Millman

Perfect by Nicola Davies

Zoom! by Robert Munsch

My Pal, Victor by Diane Bertrand Gonzales

My Three Best Friends and Me, Zulay by Cari Best

King for a Day by Rukhsana Khan

Junkyard Wonders by Patricia Polacco

 

And El Deafo is indeed one of my 7 year old's favorite books ever.

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Is fiction alright?   The main character of the iFunny series (which my kids love) is in a wheel chair.   I think it does a really good job with it.   What makes him special...the main thing about him...is not that he's in a wheel chair but that he's a comedian.  But that's part of what makes it such a good book about disabilities, even though it's not primarily about that. 

 

 

 

 

Can you link me with you favorite series, clips and videos, stories, and books about living with and/or "overcoming" a disability? For our morning basket time I want to spend some time talking about people living with disabilities.

 

My son is 7 and is beginning to see and understand his own disabilities for the first time. I have been trying to explain to him that we all have our own abilities and disabilites. I want to teach him the power of a positive outlook and perseverance and that his disabilities are not the end of the story. Thanks so much!

 

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Small Steps: The Year I got Polio by Peg Kehret was great. It is autobiographical and is a fairly simple chapter book.

 

We have a lot of polio connections in our family and I couldn'tput it down when I started it.

 

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