Once Upon An Accommodation: A Book About Learning Disabilities

by Nina G., Mean Dave (Illustrator)

Advocacy skills are essential for individuals with disabilities.   Once Upon An A Book About Learning Disabilities tells the journey of Matt who is diagnosed with a LD, learns to embrace it, finds he isn't alone and learns what it means to advocate. This book is excellent for all ages-readers with and without disabilities!  Mixing humor, illustrations and a workbook at the end, helps for the book to come alive.   It is great for classrooms, doctor offices and community rooms.

45 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2013

About the author

Nina G is a comedian, professional speaker and Disability advocate. She travels the country performing at comedy clubs and colleges and keynoting at conferences. She is part of the comedy troupe The Comedians with Disabilities Act, which brings laughter and awareness to audiences of all ages across the country. Nina lives in Oakland with her husband, Ethan who is a comedian and educator. Since comedians should never quit their day job, she also works as a counselor for students with disabilities at a California Community College, which she loves almost as much as stand-up comedy. She has contributed to numerous books on stuttering and disability studies, including her own children’s book, Once Upon an Accommodation: A Book About Learning Disabilities.

Reviews

[Nina G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it. It was much better than Cats. I'm going to see it again and again.

[Gretchen Biere]

A helpful book written for children to better understand what it means to have a disability, need accommodations in school, and other terminology and experiences of disabilities. I read this on my Kindle, so it's possible the formatting is better in book form, but if I were to give this to my students, the text felt too small and cramped (and some of the vocabulary was pretty advanced) to be easily understood by younger students.