Disability History

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    • An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 525 ratings
    • A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect....

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    • Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
    • By: Ashley Shew
    • Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Ashley Shew shows how we can create better narratives and more accessible futures by drawing from the insights of the cross-disability community....

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    • The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
    • By: Lennard Davis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights....

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    • By: Marguerite De Angeli
    • Narrated by: Roger Rees
    • Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,217 ratings
    • Set in the 14th century, the classic story of one boy's personal heroism when he loses the use of his legs....

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    • How God Uses Our Brokenness to Display His Grace
    • By: Joni Eareckson Tada, Michael Beates
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Michael Beates's concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities....

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    • Dispatches from a Post-ADA World
    • By: Ben Mattlin
    • Narrated by: Anthony Michael Lopez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....

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    • The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
    • By: Steve Silberman
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,610 ratings
    • What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth it is both of these things and more....

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    • How Human Connections Drive Success in College
    • By: Peter Felten, Leo M. Lambert
    • Narrated by: Brian Holden
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In this revelatory book brimming with the voices of students, faculty, and staff from across the country, Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert argue that relationship-rich environments can and should exist for all students at all types of institutions....

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    • A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
    • By: Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson
    • Narrated by: Tom Satterly
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-19
    • Language: English
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    • One of the most highly regarded Tier One Delta Force operators in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD....

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    • Dispatches from the World of the Blind
    • By: Rosemary Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Rosemary Mahoney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school....

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    • The Story of Autism
    • By: John Donvan, Caren Zucker
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • In 1938, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition....

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    • A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion
    • By: Lamar Hardwick, Bill Gaventa - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompted a difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person....

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    • A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness
    • By: M. Leona Godin
    • Narrated by: M. Leona Godin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight...

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    • The Story of Junius Wilson
    • By: Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner
    • Narrated by: Corey Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward....

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    • The Explosive Memoir of a Special Operator Who Never Gave Up
    • By: Joseph Kapacziewski, Charles W. Sasser
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • This is an inspiring and thrilling tale listeners will never forget. The inspiring and thrilling combat memoir of the only Army Ranger serving in direct combat operations with a prosthetic limb....

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