The following are some resources that provide interesting and thought-provoking portrayals of people living with disabilities, from learning disabilities like dyslexia to physical disabilities like cerebral palsy.
movies
Title | Disability Portrayed |
---|---|
I Am Sam | Autism |
My Name Is Khan | Autism |
Temple Grandin | Autism |
Forrest Gump | Autism |
Rain Man | Autism |
Tru Confessions | Autism |
The Big Bang Theory (TV) | Asperger’s Syndrome |
Wait Until Dark | Blindness |
My Left Foot | Cerebral Palsy |
Children of a Lesser God | Deafness |
Monica and David | Down Syndrome |
Little People, Big World (TV) | Dwarfism |
The Station Agent | Dwarfism |
Taare Zameen Par | Dyslexia |
Website: Shows you what it’s like to have dyslexia | Dyslexia |
Still Alice | Early onset Alzheimer’s |
The Mighty | Learning Disorder |
The Theory of Everything | Motor Neuron Disease (MND) |
Murderball | Orthopaedic disorders |
A Beautiful Mind | Paranoid Schizophrenia |
Miracle In Lane 2 | Paraplegic |
Paa | Progeria |
The King’s Speech | Speech disorder/stuttering |
Young Sheldon (TV) | Asperger’s Syndrome |
Atypical (TV) | Autism |
books
Title | Author | Disability Portrayed |
---|---|---|
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime | Mark Haddon | Autism |
Rules | Cynthia Lord | Autism |
A Corner Of The Universe | Ann M. Martin | Autism |
The London Eye Mystery | Siobhan Dowd | Autism |
Things Not Seen | Andrew Clements | Blindness |
Stuck In Neutral | Terry Trueman | Cerebral Palsy |
The Fault In Our Stars | John Green | Childhood Cancer |
A Fish In A Tree | Lynda Mullaly Hunt | Dyslexia |
Thank You, Mr. Falker | Patricia Polacco | Dyslexia |
Don’t Kill The Birthday Girl: Tales From An Allergic Life | Sandra Beasley | Food Allergies |
Flowers For Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Intellectual Disability |
Looking For Heroes: One Boy, One Year, 100 Letters | Adam Colvin | Learning Disorders |
Head Case: My Brain And Other Wonders | Cole Cohen | Learning Disorders |
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving | Jonathan Evison | Muscular Dystrophy |
Still Me | Christopher Reeve | Paraplegic |
Deenie | Judy Blume | Scoliosis |
Simply Nanju | Zainab Sulaiman | Spinal Defect |
A Mango-Shaped Space | Wendy Mass | Synesthesia |
Far From The Tree | Andrew Solomon | Various Disabilities |
Videos
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Dyslexia
Autism TMI Virtual Reality Experience
Orientation and Mobility Training
Wheelchair Basketball