Recommended SENIA Reads - SENIA International

Recommended SENIA Reads

Check out books that have been recommended by SENIA community members below, and click on the cover images or titles for more info.

You can also explore our Goodreads bookshelves. Happy reading! Have other books to recommend? Email Hannah at hannah.peters@seniainternational.org

Books about Disability and Neurodiversity

The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World

The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

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Publications for Parents

Help! My Kid Won't Go to School!: Finding Hope on a Bad Day

Let Them Thrive Let Them Thrive: A Playbook for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and in Life

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Your True Self Is Enough: Lessons Learned on My Journey Parenting a Child with Autism

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Stories of Self-Advocates

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Not All Heroes Wear Capes: The incredible story of how one young man found happiness by embracing his differences

The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation

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Titles for Children

A Boy and a Jaguar

Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: A Growth Mindset Book for Kids to Stretch and Shape Their Brains

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Guides for Inclusive Education

Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders

The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students

Executive Functions for Every Classroom, Grades 3-12: Creating Safe and Predictable Learning Environments

The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive

The Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School

Leading for All: How to Create Truly Inclusive and Excellent Schools

Lost & Found: Unlocking Collaboration and Compassion to Help Our Most Vulnerable, Misunderstood Students (and All the Rest)

Mathematics for Dyslexics and Dyscalculics: A Teaching Handbook

Navigating Special Education Relationships: Building Collective Efficacy for a Collaborative Team

UDL Now!: A Teacher's Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today's Classrooms by Katie Novak EdD, CAST Professional Publishing

Universally Designed Leadership: Applying UDL to Systems and Schools

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Books about Disability and Neurodiversity

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau (SENIA Keynote)
The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World by Tiffany Yu (SENIA Keynote)
The Architecture of Disability by David Gissen

Publications for Parents

Help! My Kid Won’t Go to School! Finding Hope on a Bad Day by Katie Fowle & Sharoya Ham (SENIA Book Club)
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child by Ross W. Greene (SENIA Keynote)
Let Them Thrive Let Them Thrive: A Playbook for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and in Life by Katie Novak (SENIA Keynote)
Your True Self Is Enough: Lessons Learned on My Journey Parenting a Child with Autism by Susanna Peace Lovell

Books in Languages Other than English

French: Des racines et des ailes: « Apprendre à gérer les différences en traversant les frontières » – Entre expatriation, maladie invisible et évolution personnelle, face au monde d’aujourd’hui by Jeanne Lacroix

Stories of Self-Advocates

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century edited by Alice Wong
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
Not All Heroes Wear Capes by Jonathan Lancaster
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
Creating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability edited by Michael Gill & Beth Myers
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia

Titles for Children

3 – 5 Years:
- How Do I Fit? by Lindsey Tate
4 – 8 Years:
- Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: A Growth Mindset Book for Kids to Stretch and Shape Their Brains by JoAnn Deak
- A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz

Guides for Inclusive Education

Navigating Special Education Relationships: Building Collective Efficacy for a Collaborative Team by Lori Boll & Amanda Ly (SENIA Book Club)
Becoming a Totally Inclusive School: A Guide for Teachers and School Leaders by Angeline Aow, Sadie Hollins, & Stephen Whitehead (SENIA Book Club)
Leading for All: How to Create Truly Inclusive and Excellent Schools by Josh Flosi & Jennifer Spencer-Iiams (SENIA Book Club)
Executive Functions for Every Classroom: Creating Safe and Predictable Learning Environments by Mitch Weathers (SENIA Book Club)
Lost & Found: Unlocking Collaboration and Compassion to Help Our Most Vulnerable, Misunderstood Students (and All the Rest) by Ross W. Greene (SENIA Keynote)
The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students by Jessica Minahan & Nancy Rappaport (SENIA Keynote)
UDL Now!: A Teacher’s Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today’s Classrooms by Katie Novak (SENIA Keynote)
Universally Designed Leadership: Applying UDL to Systems and Schools by Katie Novak & Kristan Rodriguez (SENIA Keynote)
The Future of Smart by Ulcca Joshi Hansen
The Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School by Liza A. Talusan
Mathematics for Dyslexics and Dyscalculics: A Teaching Handbook by Steve Chinn and Richard Ashcroft
Developing Executive Functioning in the Early Years: SOWATT Can I Do? by
Dr Rosalyn Muir
Safe Passage: How mobility affects people & what international schools should do about it by Douglas W. Ota