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The Schneider Family Book Award is an award given by the American Library Association (ALA) recognizing authors and illustrators for the excellence of portrayal of the disability experience in literature for youth. [1] There is a category for children's books, books appealing to middle grade readers and for young adult literature.
Picture book Baking Up a Storm [13] Jessica Parham/Srimalie Bassani Protagonist is a boy without a left hand. 2022 Picture book Come Over to My House [14] Eliza Hull, Sally Rippin/Daniel Gray-Barnett Examples of lots of different disabilities and how people live by showing kids playing at each other's houses.
In 1986, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) was put into force in the United States, which ended the exclusion of children with disabilities from publicly funded school systems. With the integration of children with disabilities into public schools, a new interest arose in representing disabled people in children's books.
As a special education teacher, he taught students with autism, agenesis of the corpus callosum and traumatic brain injury. [2] With permission from his students’ parents, in the classroom Ulmer "began to film interviews with his students and post them on social media," [3] which attracted an online presence. After 12 months, Special Books by ...
The NLS was established by an act of Congress in 1931, and was amended in 1934 to include sound recordings (talking books). The program was expanded in 1952 to include blind children, in 1962 to include music materials, and in 1966 to include individuals with physical impairments that prevent the reading of standard print. [6]
Bookshare is an online library of accessible ebooks for people with print disabilities, such as visual impairment, severe dyslexia, and cerebral palsy. [3] An initiative of Benetech, a social enterprise organization based in Palo Alto, California, it was founded in 2001 by Jim Fruchterman.
The Reader's Digest Select Editions [1] are a series of hardcover fiction anthology books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from Reader's Digest.Each volume consists of four or five current bestselling novels selected by Digest editors and abridged (or "condensed") to shorter form to accommodate the anthology format.
Lisa M. Meeks is an American specialist in disabilities in health professions education and faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School. She has co-authored several articles in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, [1] The Lancet, [2] [3] JAMA (journal), [4] [5] and Academic Medicine (journal) [6] [7] and published books on the subject of disability in medical ...