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Resources for Teens with Disabilities
These books are to help and to help understand the lives -- in struggle, triumph, and everyday -- of teens with disabilities.
Click on the title below to see if the book is in the library at this time.
Miriam Kaufman
Easy for You to Say: Q & A's for Teens Living with Chronic Illness or Disability |
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Kaufman here answers questions with regard to navigating some of the deepest and most personal issues of life that teens with many physical challenges may face. |
Cynthia Ann Bowman and Paul T. Jaeger
A Guide to High School Success for Students with Disabilities |
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High school is hard enough for any teen, but when you happen to have special needs, your high school experience may be more difficult than most. This is a guide to how to seize life as a special needs student in terms of advocacy, curriculum, activities, and social life. |
Esther Minskoff and David Allsopp
Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and ADHD |
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While this is ultimately a guide for educators, these clear and easy models of organization, test taking, note taking, and study skills may be of great use for adolescents to take directly. |
Penny Hutchins Paquette, Cheryl Gerson Tuttle
Learning Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide |
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This comprehensive title covers issues from symptoms to history to resources available to cope with a wide array of learning disabilities. With clear, comprehensible sections, the authors make the experience and future options of LD teens accessible and possibly even a little fun. |
Gail B. Stewart
Teens with Disabilities |
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This book of interviews is a nice, informal glimpse into the lives of four teens. The teens represent a diverse array of disabilities and have a personable, positive quality that makes for a delightful read. |
Glenn Alan Cheney
Teens with Physical Disabilities: Real-life Stories of Meeting the Challenges |
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Short, biographical sketches of teens representing such conditions as rheumatoid arthritis, muscular dystrophy, blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, and paralysis are the focus of this book. Lively and photo-accompanied, it is a terrific read for teens looking for identification. |
Kay H. Kriegsman, Elinor L. Zaslow, Jennifer D'Zmura-Rechsteiner
Taking Charge: Teenagers Talk about Life & Physical Disabilities |
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A variety of issues - from self-esteem to sexuality - are discussed in this series of frank self-portraits of teens with various disabilities. |
Jill Krementz
How It Feels to Live with a Physical Disability |
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This title focuses on the sensations and process of coping with a disability. In a series of 12 profiles, teens discuss their reactions and responses to things like depression and medical treatment. |
Rhoda Cummings and Gary Fisher
The Survival Guide for Teenagers with LD (Learning Differences) |
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Educational experiences for teens with learning difference are quite unique. This title, in clear text and comic illustrations, discusses educational rights as well as home and health issues. |
Lawrence Clayton and Jaydene Morrison
Coping with a Learning Disability |
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This simple book discusses the nature of learning disabilities and a variety of issues surrounding them. |
Keith Storey, Paul Bates, Dawn Hunter
The Road Ahead: Transition to Adult Life for Persons with Disabilities |
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Provacative questions being each chapter in this informative book for teens with disabilities who are readying themselves for their adult lives. These questions are answered over the course of the chapters, which cover everything from career-life to home-life to social-life. |
Harriet Sirof
The Road Back: Living with a Physical Disability |
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Three teens populate the pages this book, each having undergone a disabling injury or illness. Their stories of rehabilitation will serve as inspiring models for teens in like situations. |
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