Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

Aven Green Sleuthing Machine

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Third-grader Aven Green has been solving mysteries for a really long time—a whole month! She has solved many important cases like The Mystery of the Cranky Mom, The Mystery of the Missing Ice Cream, and The Mystery of the Smelly Feet. Her record is nearly 100 percent, with only The Mystery of the Cereal in My Underpants remaining unsolved to... Read more

Aven Green Baking Machine

By: Dusti Bowling

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Now that third-grader Aven Green has retired from sleuthing, it’s time to conquer a whole new world: baking!Aven knows she is an expert baker of cakes and cookies since she has been baking with her mom for a really long time. Plus no one bakes quite like she does. She cracks eggs and measures sugar and flour with her feet—plus measuring... Read more

How to Be a Sister

By: Eileen Garvin

Narrated by: Eileen Garvin

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. For example, losing a blue plastic hairbrush could leave Margaret inconsolable for hours, and a quiet Sunday... Read more

The Grave Thief

By: Dee Hahn

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A twelve-year-old grave thief gets caught up in a royal heist in this compelling middle-grade fantasy in the vein of Kelley Armstrong’s A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying.Twelve-year-old Spade is a grave thief. With his father and brother, he digs up the recently deceased to steal jewels, the main form of trade in Wyndhail.Digging graves works for... Read more

#butGod

By: Jeremy Freeman

Narrated by: Jeremy Freeman, Emily Freeman, John Behrens & G...

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.“Sir, your sons have been in a car accident. How quickly can you get here?”The phone call no parent wants to receive would lead to a miracle only God could give.When Jeremy and Emily Freeman’s teenage son Caleb was in a devastating car accident, doctors gave him a 10 percent chance of survival. Fear of losing a child was all... Read more

The Power of Potential

By: Tom D'Eri

Narrated by: Thomas D’Eri

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author. “A powerful, game-changing book. Tom's approach is changing lives.”— Seth Godin, Author of This is Marketing Discover how supporting employment for people with autism unlocked new ways of running a business—and revealed transformative lessons for all of us.Rising Tide Car Wash in Parkland, Florida, isn’t average in any way.... Read more

Places I've Taken My Body

By: Molly McCully Brown

Narrated by: Molly McCully Brown

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In seventeen intimate essays, poet Molly McCully Brown explores living within and beyond the limits of a body--in her case, one shaped since birth by cerebral palsy, a permanent and often painful movement disorder.

In spite of--indeed, in response to--physical constraints, Brown leads a peripatetic life: the essays comprise a vivid travelogue... Read more

Such a Pretty Girl

By: Nadina LaSpina

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This is Nadina LaSpina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where she contracts polio as a baby, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness, to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel... Read more

Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess

By: Shari Green

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a For Sale sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon, her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. To add insult to injury, what is Macy's final sixth-grade assignment? A genealogy project.... Read more

Saving Delaney

By: Andrea and Keston Ott-Dahl

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Ott-Dahl, who with her partner Keston Ott-Dahl has two other children, agreed to act as a pregnancy surrogate for a wealthy Silicon Valley family. When pre-natal testing revealed the baby would be born with Down Syndrome, Andrea was urged to abort the child. Instead, the Ott-Dahl’s chose to keep and raise the daughter they would call... Read more

Autism in Heels

By: Jennifer Cook O'Toole

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Toole

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This intimate memoir reveals the woman inside one of autism’s most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and for the first time in her life, things made sense. Now, she exposes the constant struggle between carefully crafted persona and authentic existence, editing the... Read more

The Great Upending

By: Beth Kephart

Narrated by: Whitney Dykhouse

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Sara and her brother Hawk are told that they are not to bother the man—The Mister—who just moved into the silo apartment on their farm. It doesn’t matter that they know nothing about him and they think they ought to know something. It doesn’t matter that he’s always riding that unicycle around. Mama told them no way, no how are... Read more

Iris Grace

By: Arabella Carter-Johnson

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social interaction with other people, and rarely smiled. Both before her diagnosis of autism and after, she seemed trapped in her own world, unable to connect with those around her. One day, her mother brought home a Maine Coon kitten for Iris. Thula... Read more

Reconnected Kids

By: Dr. Robert Melillo

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Reconnected Kids is a groundbreaking guide to help parents resolve their child's behavioral problems—without medication, strife, or drama. This empowering method shows parents how to first identify their own role in their child's behavior, and then how to guide the child to focus on goals, practice lifelong good habits, and stay motivated.



This... Read more

The Disconnected Kids Nutrition Plan

By: Dr. Robert Melillo

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A scientifically developed program for feeding kids with special needs—based on the popular Brain Balance Program



Dr. Robert Melillo's Brain Balance program has helped thousands of families across the country, offering a drug-free, scientifically based method for addressing a wide range of conditions, including autism spectrum disorders and... Read more

Loving Someone with Asperger's Syndrome

By: Cindy N. Ariel, PhD

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

If you're in a relationship with someone who has Asperger's syndrome, it's likely that your partner sometimes seems cold and insensitive. Other times, he or she may have emotional outbursts for no apparent reason. And in those moments when you can't understand each other at all, you both feel fed up, frustrated, and confused.



The behavior of... Read more

The Hard Parts

By: Oksana Masters

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2024 Christopher Award Winner

“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle

An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United States’s most decorated... Read more

Time to Roll

By: Jamie Sumner

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In the eagerly anticipated sequel to Jamie Sumner’s acclaimed and beloved middle grade novel Roll with It, Ellie finds her own way to shine.

Ellie is so not the pageant type. They’re Coralee’s thing, and Ellie is happy to let her talented friend shine in the spotlight. But what’s she supposed to do when Coralee asks her to enter a beauty pageant,... Read more

Look at It This Way

By: Sammy SweetSpirit

Narrated by: Sammy SweetSpirit

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindnessLook at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or... Read more

Firesong

By: Vashti Hardy

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm are back home in Lontown after their exhilarating—and secret—adventures in Erythea. Maudie’s sky-ak invention is a hit and Harriet Culpepper has just announced that she will freely share her skyship’s hydroelectric technology. Even Eudora Vane seems to have softened
toward them now that her memory has been... Read more

The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited follow-up to the million-copy bestseller The Out-of-Sync Child, presenting information and advice for tweens, teens, and young adults living with Sensory Processing Disorder, and their parents.
     
The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up will be the new bible for the vast audience of parents whose children, already diagnosed with... Read more

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too

By: Jill Rabin & Gill Rapley

Narrated by: Patty Nieman

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking audiobook on feeding children with special needs—and setting them up for lifelong feeding independence! Rooted in the baby-led weaning (BLW) approach, this audiobook details how to start children with feeding challenges on solid foods—for a lifetime of independent eating.

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too, is the inclusive guide to... Read more

Wondering Who You Are

By: Sonya Lea

Narrated by: Sonya Lea

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-third year of their marriage, Sonya Lea's husband, Richard, went in for surgery to treat a rare appendix cancer. When he came out, he had no recollection of their life together: how they met, their wedding day, the births of their two children. All of it was gone, along with the rockier parts of their past - her drinking, his... Read more

Sugaring Off

By: Gillian French

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

ITW Thriller Award Finalist

A dazzling and evocative novel about love and loss—with a dash of thrilling mystery—for fans of Mindy McGinnis and Courtney Summers. Owl has always been her freest self in the mountains, tracking, hiking, and exploring the steep forested acres of her aunt and uncle’s maple sugar farm. They never speak of the childhood... Read more