Disability

See also disability studies.

According to many definitions, a disability or functional impairment is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these. Other definitions describe disability as the societal disadvantage arising from such impairments. Disability substantially affects a person's life activities and may be present from birth or occur during a person's lifetime.
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Bad Bishop (Society of Villains, #1)
That's Not How It Happened
ILY (Deaf Hearts, #2)
Moonlit Nights & Northern Lights (The Killigrew Street Case Files, #2)
Winning You
Never Seen the Stars
ゆびさきと恋々 13 [Yubisaki to Renren 13]
Hazelthorn
The Princess Knight
All of Us Murderers
The Graceview Patient
Crafting for Sinners
Higher Magic
Alice Rue Evades the Truth
These Bodies Ain’t Broken
Next of Kin (Next, #1)
You Weren't Meant to Be Human
Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
How to Keep House While Drowning
The Matzah Ball
Comeback (Holland Brothers, #3)
Happiness Falls
More or Less Maddy
The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
His Juliet (Empire of Royals, #2)
Strong Female Character
A Dance of Lies (A Dance of Lies, #1)
That's Not How It Happened
The Sideways Life of Denny Voss
Gold Digger (Daydreamer, #2)
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
El Deafo
Archer's Voice
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
True Biz
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)

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