SpecialStories

Author: Thomas J. Lambke
Major Character with a Disability: Bryan Lambke
Short Description
The story of Tom and Bryan’s experiences going to Special Olympics World Games in Ireland.
Published by: Morelos (US), 2004

Tom and Bryan are father and son as well as Unified Partners in Bowling with Special Olympics from Arizona. The book describes their experiences going to World [...]

Authors: Bryan and Tom Lambke
Major Character with a Disability: Bryan Lambke
Short Description
The author describes his life with the help of his father.
Published by: Five Star Publications (US), 2006
Author with Disabilities: Bryan Lambke
A black-and-white photo essay about the life of Bryan Lambke who has Down Syndrome. Mostly it is pictures with captions that describe his life [...]

Author: Temple Grandin
Major Character with a Disability: the author
Short Description
The author describes autism from the inside in this story of her life.
Published by: Vintage (US), 1996
Author with Disabilities: Temple Grandin
The captivating subject of Oliver Sack’s Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin’s personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed [...]

Author: Mark Haddon
Major Character with a Disability: Christopher Boone (the narrator of the story)
Short Description
A young detective with autism solves a crime while learning about life.
Published by: Doubleday (US), 2003
Author with Disabilities: none
Randomhouse (UK publisher) excerpts (text and audio) from the book
Long Description (from Doubleday)
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the [...]

Author: Rachel Simon
Major Character with a Disability: Beth Simon
Short Description
Beth lives independently and is in a long-term romantic relationship, but perhaps the most surprising thing about her, certainly to her (mostly) supportive family, is how she spends her days riding buses.
Published by: Houghton Mifflin (US), 2002
Author with Disabilities: none

Picture from the TV Special
Long Description (from [...]

Author: Martha Beck
Major Character with a Disability: Adam
Short Description
The pregnancy and birth of Adam, a child with Down syndrome, and the effect on his parents
Published by: Crown (US), 1999
Author with Disabilities: none
Long Description (from Amazon.com)
Expecting Adam is an autobiographical tale of an academically oriented Harvard couple who conceive a baby with Down’s syndrome and decide [...]

Authors: Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano
Major Character with a Disability: the author
 
Short Description
The author gives her personal perspective on autism and how she took advantage of her attributes.
Published by: Warner Books (US), 1996
Author with Disabilities: Temple Grandin
This book is written by a woman who overcame a severe disability to become a successful designer of [...]