Disability

See also disability studies.

According to many definitions, a disability or functional impairment is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.
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New Releases Tagged "Disability"

That's Not How It Happened
ILY (Deaf Hearts, #2)
Winning You
Never Seen the Stars
Hazelthorn
The Princess Knight
The Graceview Patient
Alice Rue Evades the Truth
These Bodies Ain’t Broken
Top Shelf
Just This Once (Men Of Porth Luck #1)
Next of Kin (Next, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
How to Keep House While Drowning
Comeback (Holland Brothers, #3)
That's Not How It Happened
ゆびさきと恋々 12 [Yubisaki to Renren 12]
Strong Female Character
More or Less Maddy
Happiness Falls
His Juliet (Empire of Royals, #2)
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
Gold Digger (Daydreamer, #2)
A Dance of Lies (A Dance of Lies, #1)
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
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MG/YA/NA #ownvoices
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Disability-positive stories
497 books — 323 voters

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Diversity in Young Adult and Middle Grade
1,918 books — 1,216 voters
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Heroes and Heroines with disabilities
464 books — 259 voters


Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
El Deafo
Archer's Voice
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
True Biz
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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Rosemary Sutcliff
In the years since then there has been a gradual change in the climate of ideas with regard to the disabled. It had begun to dawn on the able-bodied world that it is possible to combine an unsatisfactory body with a perfectly satisfactory brain, and a personality at any rate as satisfactory as most other people's. Trailing somewhat behind that, but now beginning to emerge also, is the much more startling idea that the disabled may not only have normal brains and the ability to hold down normal j ...more
Rosemary Sutcliff, Blue Remembered Hills: A Recollection

Charles Dickens
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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