Building a truly inclusive world starts with knowledge. This collection features the most essential books on disability. It offers a focused lens on transforming learning environments and creating fair employment. Here, you will find actionable guides like Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice for educators. It includes critical research like Disability and the Future of Work for HR professionals and policymakers. Whether you are a teacher, manager, disability advocate, student, or ally, these books provide the strategies. They offer insights and frameworks to advance disability justice, help implement fair hiring practices. and champion accessibility in education and the workplace. Explore our selections to deepen your understanding and turn knowledge into meaningful action. As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thank you for your support.
Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice
David Gordon | 2014 | 234 pages
Comprehensive guide to implementing Universal Design for Learning principles in educational settings.
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Ableism in Academia
Nicole Brown & Jennifer Leigh | 2020 | 241 pages.
Collection theorizing the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent academics in neoliberal universities.
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My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church
Amy Kenny | 2022 | 192 pages
Exploration of disability justice within religious communities and applications for religious education.
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon | 2013 | 976 pages.
About families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or multiple severe disabilities. This book also covers families with children who are prodigies, conceived in rape, who become criminals, or who are transgender. While each of these characteristics is isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal. Solomon documents triumphs of love over prejudice in every chapter.
The Disability Studies Reader (5th Edition)
Edited by Lennard J. Davis | 2020 | 584 pages
Foundational anthology of key texts in disability studies, covering theory, history, culture, and politics.
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Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
Emily Ladau | 2021 | 176 pages.
An approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people. It provides actionable steps for what to say and do, and what not to do. Learn how you can help make the world a more inclusive place.
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Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Margaret Price | 2011 | 280 pages.
Analysis of how mental disability operates in academic settings and how to create more inclusive educational environments.
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Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada
Dustin Galer | 2018 | 328 pages.
Working towards Equity provides new in-depth analysis on rights activism. It covers employment, sheltered workshops, deinstitutionalization, and labor markets in the contemporary Canadian context.
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Disability and the Future of Work
Mark Considine & Siobhan O’Sullivan | 2021 | 256 pages.
Research on how systemic policies and the pandemic affect disabled workers and employment trends.
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Work and Disability: Contexts, Issues, and Strategies
Edna Mora Szymanski & Randall M. Parker | 2009 | 492 pages
Comprehensive textbook covering legislative background and strategies for employment of disabled people.
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Disability in the Workplace: The Politics of Difference
Johnathon S. Breen | 2020 | 208 pages
Introduction to a difference model of disability for understanding workplace relationships and accommodations.
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