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The Personal Care Attendant Guide Offers Help to Caregivers

The Personal Care Attendant Guide is a book offering advice to caregivers about caretaking for others, including hints for developing a personal care attendant plan, common questions from a PCA and tips for caregivers for children, seniors and spouses.

Disability Book Overview Showcases Great Reading Options

Disaboom staffers gathered some of their favorite books on a wide range of disabilities to bring you the very best. Appropriate for varying ages, each is optimistic yet grounded.

Employees with Disabilities Have Hidden Talent

A practical resource for employers that covers how to hire, retain and benefit from the inclusion of people with disabilities in their workforce.

Children with Disabilities Explore Disability Through Children's Nonfiction Books

Nonfiction books about disability for children can be hard to find, but we've highlighted several that appeal to various ages and are valid representations of the disability experience.

Top Fiction for Children, Teens, and Adults with Disabilities

Children with disabilities are at the heart of this group of stories aimed at the younger set. From simpler preschool fare to more serious tween tales, these stories educate and entertain.

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David Lega is a Hero to Children with Disabilties, Hands Free

Being born with a disability has inspired David Lega's life. The Paralympic swimmer with three gold medals is a humorous, humble man who can shoot an air gun with his tongue and donates wheelchairs to kids in Albania.

Book Celebrates ASL and the Deaf Community

When her sister drowns, Rachel tries to contact her by learning sign language. This twist on a disability theme leads the novel's protagonist to a career with the deaf. An engaging and very readable book.

Winning the Disability Challenge: Life After a New Disability

The psychological and emotional aspects of recovery from disability, so often overlooked, are the focus of this valuable book.

Disability Awareness: Disability Books to Share with Your Kids

Disability books for children can be hard to find, but here are some great ones. A wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities are covered engagingly, making appealing reading for the younger set.

Sexual Relationship Resource for People with Disabilities Offers Insight to Love and Sex

Sexual relationships when at least one partner has a disability can be confusing at best. More than 70 couples' experience contributed to this compilation of advice on the joys and struggles of sex with disability.

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