Children's story books about disablity

[NaughtToThreeSadOnions]

Just wondering if any of you have cone across story books explaining how some children have disablities.

There are a number of books that help prepare children for say their first day at school, or the expectent arrival of a sibling, even death and divorce.

Are there any that explain for instance autism or why a child is in a wheelchair or needs to use makoton or sight impairments.

Not neccessaly for the disabled child but for the able bodied neurotypical children that might say be in their classroom?

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Max The Champion

Not about children but for children.

We have a lovely one from the Parkinson's Society called My Grandad has Parkinsons - really helped my dc understand why my df sometimes struggles. I think they do a variety of others too.

Do you mean books explaining what’s caused a disability / how the disability affects the child, rather than simply books including disabled characters?

It’s better to focus on the child themselves. Put them at the forefront, name first, what they like/don’t like etc. Then a brief age-appropriate explanation about how their disability impacts them, including what equipment they might use to help.
You can read a book about a child who uses a wheelchair to a class but they won’t respond as well as they would to that child in that wheelchair in that class. For instance, learning not to touch it, to be aware that the user might be trying to get past you in it......none of that can be learned from a book.

mean books explaining what’scauseda disability / how the disability affects the child, rather than simply books including disabled characters?

Yes, well not caused the disablity as such, but what how it affects children certanly and how its ok to be different etc.

We’ve got children’s books about ASD out from the library before, but I can’t remember the names of them right now.

But I googled “children’s books about disabilities” and lots of titles came up, so that might be worth a try for you.

I'm Special is one my DD liked. It's not about how to treat others, but basically saying a disability doesn't mean they can't do other things.

It's worse as they get older in a lot of ways. Dd complains that all people with her disability are either evil, or their only personality is their disability or they're the sympathetic sidekick, used to show either how nice the main character is or to give a nicer side to the evil one-man alternative to the pet dog. 🙄

We got a book called "I think differently" to help our dc understand a classmate with autism.

We have the All Dogs Have ADHD book, which DS relates well to.

There is a tv cartoon series called Pablo who has autism. There is a cartoon tv series based on a girl with downs syndrome called Punky. I'm not sure if it either are in book form yet though.

My super hero brain is a great story about autism. They also do stories for siblings too.

Wonder, Out of my mind, Push girl, We're amazing, Planet of the blind, Roll with it, Mockingbird, Everybody is different, The curious incident of the dog in the night, Howie helps himself, The fault in our stars, Deenie, Flowers for Algernon, Cinderellas magical wheelchair (there are other fairytales that include disabilities), Some kids use wheelchairs, the boy next door, Zoom, Mascot, Grandpas tree, Heidi, Pollyanna, The lemonade club, Mia Lee, The running dream.

Little parachutes also do some good books.

Just some books that have been enjoyed by all.

My DD has I am an aspie girl. It's great for explaining ASC to girls between the ages of 5-10