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Disability Audiobooks

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    The Facemaker

    One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

    by Lindsey Fitzharris ...
    Narrated by Daniel Gillies ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind's military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. The war caused carnage on an industrial scale, and the nature of trench warfare meant that thousands sustained facial injuries. In The Facemaker, award-winning historian Lindsey Fitzharris tells the true ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...
    Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century

    Unabridged Selections

    by Alice Wong ...
    Narrated by Alice Wong, Alejandra Ospina ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 1 min

    One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.From original pieces ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The PDA Paradox

    The Highs and Lows of My Life on a Little-Known Part of the Autism Spectrum

    by Harry Thompson ...
    Narrated by Elliot Chapman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 9 min

    A memoir by an adult with PDA, reflecting back on his early childhood through to present day.Diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol.By embracing neurodiversity and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it

    by Pete Wharmby ...
    Narrated by Pete Wharmby ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives.The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, bright flashing lights, small talk, phone calls, unspoken assumptions and unwritten rules – it can be a nightmarish dystopia for the autistic population. In Untypical, Pete Wharmby lays bare the experience ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Future Is Disabled

    Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs

    by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...
    Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled-and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Being Heumann

    The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

    by Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner ...
    Narrated by Ali Stroker ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 37 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism--from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington--Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society.Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Success on the Spectrum

    by Colin Williamson & Paul Munro ...
    Narrated by Colin Williamson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Autism is often misunderstood by mainstream society. Colin takes us on a journey through the key moments in his life with undiagnosed Autism. The added struggles with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculus are all part of who he is. There are sad times, funny times, times when he felt disdain for himself, but an underlying drive to carve out a life of normality is always there. A graduate of Edinburgh ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    10 Dinge, die autistische Kinder ihren Eltern sagen möchten

    by Ellen Notbohm, Ellen Notbohm ...
    Narrated by Mike Langhans ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    Der erfolgreiche Elternratgeber aus den USA zeigt in zehn Kapiteln zehn zentrale Besonderheiten autistischer Kinder auf - zum Teil in "Ich-Form" aus der Sicht des autistischen Sohnes der Autorin. Die Sichtweise auf autistische Menschen ist sehr positiv, verstehend und nicht defizitär. Das Buch hat vier Schwerpunkte: Neben Sensorischen Besonderheiten, Kommunikation und sozialem Verhalten wird die ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome in Children

    A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals

    by Margaret Duncan, Zara Healy, Ruth Fidler, Phil Christie ...
    Narrated by John Telfer ...
    series JKP Essentials

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    Straightforward guide to understanding PDA for anyone needing an overview of the condition.Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (PDA) is a developmental disorder that is being increasingly recognised as part of the autism spectrum. The main characteristic is a continued resistance to the ordinary demands of life through strategies of social manipulation, which originates from an anxiety-driven ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Living With Hearing Loss and Deafness

    A guide to owning it and loving it

    by Samantha Baines ...
    Narrated by Samantha Baines ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours

    A warm and down-to-earth exploration of hearing loss and deafness.Featuring the author's own experiences of deafness, this audiobook is about how to understand, live and thrive with hearing loss - a humorous yet informative place to turn for the millions of people in the UK who have hearing loss or deafness. Including interviews with experts from the RNID, audiologists, deaf activists and people ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    You Heard It Here First

    A BBC Radio 4 Comedy Panel Show

    by Chris McCausland ...
    Narrated by Chris McCausland ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    The innovative BBC Radio panel game presented by Chris McCausland, where all the questions are based on sound'Great fun' Radio TimesDevised and hosted by blind stand-up star Chris McCausland, this unique game show explores what it's like to live in an audio-only world. Relying solely on their hearing, the contestants must decipher brainteaser sound cues and hilarious clips, while trying not to ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Disability and the Church

    A Vision for Diversity and Inclusion

    by Lamar Hardwick ...
    Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 19 min

    Lamar Hardwick was thirty-six years old when he found out he was on the autism spectrum. While this revelation helped him understand and process his own experience, it also prompted a difficult re-evaluation of who he was as a person. And as a pastor, it started him on a new path of considering the way disabled people are treated in the church. Disability and the Church is a practical and ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Life Worth Living

    Disability, Pain, and Morality

    by Joel Michael Reynolds ...
    Narrated by Jason Vu ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: "let there be a law that no deformed child shall live." This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Our Autistic Lives

    Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+

    Narrated by Katy Sobey, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Mark Meadows, Gavin Osborn, Lucy Price-Lewis, Ric Jerrom ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 37 min

    This collection of narratives from autistic adults is structured around their decades of experience of life, covering 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60 and 70s+. These are varied and diverse, spanning different continents, genders, sexualities and ethnicities, yet the author highlights the common themes that unite them and skilfully draws out these threads.Each chapter is based on accounts from one age group ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    In Sickness and in Health

    Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance

    by Ben Mattlin ...
    Narrated by René Ruiz ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    A frank, humorous exploration of interabled dating, love, and marriageBen Mattlin’s wife, ML, recalls falling in love with his confidence and sheer determination. On one of their earliest dates, he persuaded her to ride on his lap in his wheelchair on their way home from an Elvis Costello concert. Thirty years later, they still travel like this from time to time, undaunted by the curious stares ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Mein Weg führt nach Tibet

    by Sabriye Tenberken ...
    Narrated by Ulrike Grote ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 46 min

    Ein ungewöhnlicher Erfahrungsbericht aus Tibet, der Hoffnung schenkt: Als 27-Jährige macht die blinde Sabrye Tenberken sich allein auf den Weg nach Tibet. Es sollte nicht nur eine mutige Reise werden, sondern ein fortdauerndes Engagement für die blinden Kinder vor Ort, für die Tenberken eine Blindenschule in Lhasa gründete und eine tibetische Blindenschrift entwickelte. Voller Humor und Zuneigung ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

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    The Power of Disability

    10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World

    by Al Etmanski ...
    Narrated by Steve Carlson ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 57 min

    “This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world has in store for us.” —Michael J. FoxThis book reveals that people with disabilities are the invisible force that has shaped history. They have been instrumental in the growth of freedom and birth of democracy. They have produced heavenly music and exquisite works ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blind Ambition

    How to Go from Victim to Visionary

    by Chad E. Foster ...
    Narrated by Zach Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    For anyone seeking to live life to its fullest potential, Blind Ambition is an eye-opening account of a tech industry executive who overcame fear and hopelessness to turn his blindness disability into a powerful, competitive strength.While most people were preparing for the adventure of adult life, Chad E. Foster was watching the world he grew up with fade to black but that didn’t stop him from ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Disability History of the United States

    by Kim E. Nielsen ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...
    series REVISIONING HISTORY

    Unabridged

    7 hours 35 min

    The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the presentDisability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the entirety of US history from pre-1492 to the present, A Disability History of the United States is the first book to place the experiences of disabled people at ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Normal Schmormal: My occasionally helpful guide to parenting kids with special needs

    by Ashley Blaker ...
    Narrated by Ashley Blaker ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    The heartwarming and hilarious part-memoir, part-guide from comedian and father-of-six Ashley Blaker, on parenting, adoption and raising children with special needs.‘We had such a variety of experts visiting our home, we really needed a revolving door. All these professionals would watch our son playing while shaking their heads and making tutting sounds, like builders considering a bad job you ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Boys in the Bunkhouse

    Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland

    by Dan Barry ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 44 min

    With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Driving Forwards

    A journey of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

    by Sophie L Morgan ...
    Narrated by Sophie L Morgan ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 40 min

    'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton'Everyone should read this book. Sophie Morgan is the epitome of grit and determination. Her writing is thought provoking, honest and in parts hilarious.' Katie Piper OBE'Wrenchingly honest...eye-opening and deeply moving. *****' Mail on SundayAs seen on 'Living Wild; How to Change your Life' a two ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Turning on the Light

    Tips, Tricks, and Stories for Better Living with Low Vision

    by Ms. Jordan Hancock ...
    Narrated by Joanna Teljeur ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 52 min

    Author Jordan Hancock has grieved over the sight difficulties that she will face for the rest of her life. But to help her cope with her changing situation, she decided to share her insights, stories, and lessons with those who might find them most helpful. Turning on the Light presents some of her personal stories and offers tips and tricks she has learned over years of study and learning. This ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial