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Autism and Disability Studies at CSI

"Own Voices" Books

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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys

A collection of literary and experimental essays about living with chronic pain.

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Teaching Myself to See

Deals with the author's struggles to participate in a world full of visual details.

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Drawing Autism

An array of work from from well-known and not-so-well-known artists with autism.

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Body, Remember

Kenny Fries illustrates his intersecting identities as gay, Jewish, and disabled. 

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Moving Violations

The memoir of a paraplegic journalist, describing his experiences as a reporter for National Public Radio.

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Thinking in Pictures

Grandin's memoir, written from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person.

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Seven Wheelchairs

By giving his readers the unromantic truth about life in a wheelchair, Presley escapes stereotypes about people with disabilities.

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My Brief History

Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age twenty-one. 

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What's That Pig Outdoors?

The author recounts his life as a deaf person in a hearing world and addresses the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.

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The Diary of Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life.

Books by Call Number

Circulation Books on Autism and Disability Studies can be found on the 3rd floor of the CSI library, under the following call numbers:

  • HD 7255-7256 for books on Employment for Disabled People
  • HV 888-907 for books on the Social Welfare of Disabled Children
  • HV1551-3024 for book on the Social Welfare of Disabled Adults
  • LC 3950-4806 for books on Education and Disability 
  • RA 790-790.95 for books on Mental Illness Prevention
  • RC 569-571 for books on Developmental Disabilities 

More specific call numbers for topics in Autism and Disability Studies can be found using the Library of Congress Classification Call Numbers Outline

More information on the history of call numbers and how they work can be found in our Library of Congress Classification Research Guide

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