Perspectives on Disability audiobooks

What the **** is Normal?!

By: Francesca Martinez

Narrated by: Francesca Martinez

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?
Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal... Read more

Dyslexia. Wrestling with an Octopus

By: Beth Beamish

Narrated by: Naomi Barton

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Does your child have dyslexia?Backed by research and over a decade of personal experience, I've developed a holistic approach to help your child succeed. Find out about the eight areas of dyslexic challenge. Discover tools to teach your child to read, spell, and master the multiplication tables Understand other learning challenges commonly found... Read more

Certain Victory

By: Robert J Ott & Bob Olson

Narrated by: Wayne June

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Author Robert J Ott along with his Co-Author Bob Olson and Narrator Wayne June shares his amazing story of how a will to live, a love for life can overcome unthinkable trauma and deep despair. Robert was a young man struggling to make it on his own when in 1990 he suffered a violent and traumatic experience when someone put a bullet through... Read more

The Boy Who Found His Voice

By: Tyler Gordon

Narrated by: Tyler Gordon

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of painting and classmates' cheers.

From teen activist and artistic prodigy Tyler Gordon comes a heartwarming audiobook inspired by his own life about a boy with a speech difference who learns the power... Read more

Stories

By: Laura Jean Pulscher

Narrated by: Wendy Anderson

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From faith’s birth to its refining through disease, this poetically illustrated memoir details one woman’s journey of growth. Pulscher’s writings stand testament that each individual, regardless of limitations, can make a meaningful contribution to the world through daring to share their stories. Read more

Devout

By: Anna Gazmarian

Narrated by: Rachel LeBlang

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A “moving” (Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering) memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical faith to create a new framework for which to live.

In this “dazzling” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir, Anna Gazmarian tells the story of how her Evangelical upbringing in North Carolina failed to help... Read more

But Everyone Feels This Way

By: Paige Layle

Narrated by: Paige Layle

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Autism acceptance activist and TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. 

“For far too long, I was told I was just like everyone else. But knew it couldn’t be true. Living just seemed so much harder for me. This wasn’t okay. This wasn’t normal. This wasn’t functioning. And it... Read more

Hearing Happiness

By: Jaipreet Virdi

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an auto-narrated audiobook edition of this book. Weaving together lyrical history and personal memoir, Virdi powerfully examines society’s—and her own—perception of life as a deaf person in America.

At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently... Read more

Hope Fights Back

By: Andrea Lytle Peet & Meredith Atwood

Narrated by: Andrea Lytle Peet & Meredith Atwood

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The incredible story of a young woman living with ALS, who defies all odds by finishing fifty marathons and, in turn, inspires people to “go on, be brave.”

Andrea Lytle Peet was thirty-three years old—an urban planner living in D.C., newly married, and a triathlete—when she received the death sentence of an ALS diagnosis (also known as Lou... Read more

Touch the Future

By: John Lee Clark

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A revelatory collection of essays on the DeafBlind experience, and a manifesto on the power and untapped potential of touch.



Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an... Read more

All the Small Wonderful Things

By: Kate Foster

Narrated by: Adam Fitzgerald

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything is changing for eleven-year-old Alex, and as an autistic person, change can be terrifying. With the first day of middle school only a few months away, Alex is sure that having a friend by his side will help. So he’s devised a plan: impress the kids at school
by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin.... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Through the Wormhole

By: Chris Solaas

Narrated by: Chris Solaas

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The call for help seemed to come from the wall, and I knew there wasn’t a secret room there. That’s when I spied two bare feet sticking out of a hole in the wall.Holes in the wall. Setting fires in the house. Secret rooms and monsters in the closets. My wife and I never thought we'd have adventures like these raising our kids. After dealing with... Read more

Gut Reaction

By: Kirby Larson & Quinn Wyatt

Narrated by: Jen Taylor

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed, bestselling author and Newbery Honor-winner, Kirby Larson, and her daughter, debut author, Quinn Wyatt, pen this gorgeously moving and often funny story that explores what living with a chronic illness is like. Inspired by Quinn's own personal journey, Gut Reaction is full of heart and humor and highlights the importance of... Read more

Against Technoableism

By: Ashley Shew

Narrated by: Maria Pendolino

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume... Read more

Chasing the Intact Mind

By: Amy S.F. Lutz

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Though the idea gives hope to... Read more

Piece by Piece

By: David Aguilar & Ferran Aguilar

Narrated by: Fabio Tassone

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The heartfelt and funny memoir of a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm out of the world-famous toy bricks.David Aguilar was born missing part of one arm, a small detail that seemed to define his life and limit people’s ideas of who he was and who he could be. But in this funny and heartfelt memoir, David proves that he can throw out the... Read more

I am a Superhero Expert

By: Josh Stehle

Narrated by: Josh Stehle

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving story about how autism and a shared appreciation for superheroes brought two brothers together.
Author Josh Stehle learned everything he knows about superheroes from his older brother and best friend, Zach. From the worlds they live in, to the writers who created them, and studios who produced them--Zach is an expert in all things... Read more

Angry Cripples. Stimmen behinderter Menschen gegen Ableismus [Ungekürzt]

By: Alina Buschmann & Luisa L'Audace

Narrated by: Alina Buschmann

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"Angry Cripples" werden behinderte Menschen abfällig genannt, denen vorgeworfen wird, aufgrund ihrer Behinderung verbittert zu sein. Dieses Hörbuch fordert den Begriff zurück und besetzt ihn neu. Es kommen ausschließlich behinderte Menschen zu Wort - und viele von ihnen sind wütend darüber, wie die Gesellschaft mit ihnen umgeht. Zu Recht. Hier... Read more

The Girl with Special Shoes

By: Hilda Bih Muluh

Narrated by: Hilda Bih Muluh

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilda’s family didn’t know she had muscular dystrophy. They just knew their preschooler was losing her ability to walk. But they were determined to find a cure.

Being disabled in Cameroon meant not only obstacles to transport, but visits to diviners and evangelists, threats of sexual assault, discrimination, and a crisis of faith. Despite the... Read more

Please Stop Trying to Leave Me

By: Alana Saab

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An "engrossing, affecting, and singular" (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world.

While god is sending her signs through Instagram and Spotify demanding she break up with her girlfriend, Norma meets with a new therapist for one reason: she really needs to write again. With only one... Read more

The One By One Documentaries

By: Gregory Kemmis

Narrated by: Gregory Kemmis

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This story is true and remains dedicated to impacting the needs and lives of individuals in society: all the topics are real, whereas it's main purpose is to raise awareness of ongoing issues, yet present encouraging messages.Inspired by the life, work and values of Artist/Composer, Producer, Leader & Friend: Gregory Kemmis.
This is the first... Read more

Vision

By: David S. Tatel

Narrated by: John Lescault & David S. Tatel

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity.

David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many... Read more

On the Bright Side

By: Anna Sortino

Narrated by: Jesse Inocalla & Elizabeth Robbins

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A hopeful novel about love, disability, and the inevitability of change by the author of Give Me a Sign.

“Poignant, romantic, and deeply heartfelt.” —Amber Smith, New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be

Ellie’s Deaf boarding school just shut down, forcing her to leave the place she considered home and return to her hearing... Read more