Resources
The following media was
carefully selected by the CSB Resource
Development staff to provide some of the most comprehensive and
thorough information to parents, educators and other care-givers.
BOOKS
NON-FICTION
Bartram, Pamela
Understanding Your Young Child With Special Needs
A quick and easy guide to improve parenting skills.
Baskin, Amy and Fawcett, Heather
More Than A Mom
Living a full and balanced life when your child has special needs.
Dowling, Nicole and Thomas
A Different Kind of Perfect
Parents’ reflections on raising a child with special need.
Exley, Helen (ed)
What its Like to be Me
Written and illustrated by kids with disabilities.
Meyer, Don, ed.
The Sibling Slam Book
Views From Our Shoes
Siblings of people with disabilities share their thoughts and feelings.
Simon, Rachel
Riding the Bus With my Sister
Rachel and her developmentally disabled sister Beth make a deal: Rachel must ride the busses with Beth for one year. A beautiful tutorial on alternative perceptions.
No Limits, Inc.
The Complete Product Guide for People With Disabilities
And I do mean complete. Phone numbers and websites for suppliers of everything from clothing to vehicles, Pediatrics, orthotics, mobility, accessibility, and more!
FICTION
Erskine, Kathryn
Mockingbird
How does a child with Asperger’s cope with the death of her brother, the one person who truly helped her to understand? Beautiful insight into how the Asperger’s mind can work.
Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
If you haven’t read this one yet, you’re missing out! Mystery plus autism equals a junior genius Sherlock Holmes (and what about him, anyway?) whom nobody wants to understand.
MOVIES
“Rory O’Shea Was Here”
Fiction: One guy wants to de-institutionalize himself, the other doesn’t. Best friends trying to maintain friendship while struggling to build their own lives.
“Temple Grandin”
Ms. Grandin’s own story of her life with autism. Funny, frustrating and enlightening.
“Murderball”
How personal can you get? And am I the only one who is scared of these guys? Talk about not letting little things get in your way… like hands, knees, heads…being a para or a quad…people who won’t look at you because you’re in a chair…hey, there’s always toes to run over. Kudos to the men in this film for showing some of their most private moments so that we can gain some understanding of how frustrating life can be when you are alterly-able.
