Children's+Literature

__Daniel's World: A Book About Children with Disabilities__ by Kathleen Deloach. This book can be very helpful in the classroom to let kids realize that sometimes children are different and that you need to be nice to them regardless of their disabilities.

__Since Were Friends: An Amazing Autism Picture Book__ by Celeste Shally and David Harrington. This is a very cute book about a boy who befriends another boy with autism. This book can be very helpful in the classroom because it teaches kids that their friends, even though they may have autism, can really contribute to a great friendship.

Scholastic Biography: __Helen Keller__ by Margaret Davidson. This is a really informational book about the life of Hellen Keller who was deaf, blind, and mute. This can be read in the classroom and is a great book for children to get a perspective on what it would be like to lose all of those senses. It makes children realize how blessed they are to have eyes and ears that work!

Krementz, Jill. [|How It Feels To Live With a Physical Disability.] Photographs and interviews showing children living with such physical disabilities as blindness, cerebral palsy, paralysis, and missing limbs.

Lasker, Joe. [|He's My Brother.] A young boy describes the experiences of his slow learning younger brother at school and at home. Appropriate for children who have a learning disability, sensory integration dysfunction, autism, ADD, ADHD, Tourette's syndrome, PDD, OCD, MR and other disabilities that might be considered an invisible handicap.

Lears, Laurie. [|Waiting for Mr. Goose.] Stephen, who has trouble sitting still and paying attention, surprises himself when he summons up the patience to catch and help an injured goose. Includes a note to adults about children who have difficulty staying focused, including those with ADHD. Moss, Deborah. [|Shelley the Hyperactive Turtle.] After his mother takes him to the doctor, Shelley the turtle begins to understand why he feels so jumpy and wiggly inside that he can't stay still. Nemiroff, Marc A. [|Help Is on the Way: A Child's Book About ADD.] Explains the effects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and how it can be handled.