Resources
This is where I’ll post various books, films and other media which is worth checking out throughout the month.
T.E.D. Talks
Our fight for disability rights and why we’re not done yet | Judith Heumann | TEDxMidAtlantic
I got 99 problems… palsy is just one | Maysoon Zayid
I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much | Stella Young
The Truth About Growing Up Disabled | Dylan Alcott | TEDxYouth@Sydney
What’s wrong with me? Absolutely nothing | Gabi Ury | TEDxSanDiego
The Disability Conversation | Ben Myers | TEDxOStateU
How a 13 year old changed ‘Impossible’ to ‘I’m Possible’ | Sparsh Shah | TEDxGateway
Talking about disability | Celeste Adams | TEDxYouth@AnnArbor
Overcoming Ableism: What You Don’t Know As An Able Bodied Person | Naty Rico | TEDxUCIrvine
TEDxMIA – Shelley Baer – The Beauty of Disability
Able Privilege, Re-Conceptualizing Disability: Alan Larson at TEDxSFA
Inclusion, belonging and the disability revolution: Jennie Fenton at TEDxBellingen
At First Glance | Kurt Hoffman | TEDxVirginiaTech
Living with an Invisible Disability | Sarah Skinner | TEDxYouth@Dayton
The Power of a Disability | Maeve Sheehy | TEDxNatick
Fearless like a child — overcoming adversity | Jack Kavanagh | TEDxTallaght
Every body: glamour, dateability, sexuality & disability | Dr. Danielle Sheypuk | TEDxBarnardCollege
Mainstreaming Disability | Dylan Alcott | TEDxSydney
Sexuality and Disability: Forging Identity in a World that Leaves You Out | Gaelynn Lea | TEDxYale
Sexuality & disability — a seat at the table: Cheryl Cohen Greene at TEDxFiDiWomen
Undressing Disability | Emily Yates | TEDxYouth@StPeterPort
General Reference
Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability Ed. Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black & Michael Northen
Staring Out: The Disability Experience From the Inside Out Ed. Kenny Fries
Despite This Flesh: The Disabled in Stories and Poems Ed. Vassar Miller
Cerebral Palsy
My Left Foot – Christy Brown (Book)
My Left Foot (Film)
Dyslexia
Philip Schultz – My Dyslexia (Book)
Samuel R. Delaney – Dhalgren
Autism
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity – Steve Silberman
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism – John Donvan & Carin Zucker
Thinking in Pictures – Temple Grandin
Nobody Nowhere – Donna Williams
Somebody Somewhere – Donna Williams
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s – John Elder Robison
Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian – John Elder Robison
Raising Cubby: A Father and Son’s Adventures with Asperger’s, Trains, Tractors and High Explosives – John Elder Robison
The Siege – Clara Claiborne Park
Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism – Clara Claiborne Park
The Autistic Brain – Temple Grandin & Richard Panek
The Reason I Jump – Naoki Higashida
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 – Naoki Higashida