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Teaching Students with Disabilities: Related Books and Films for Discussion

Related Books for Discussion

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language by Nora Ellen Groce

Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks

A Loss for Words by Lou Ann Walker

Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

Moving Violations by John Hockenberry

No Pity by Joseph Shapiro

Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks

Train Go Sorry by Leah Hager Cohen

Wild Boy of Aveyron by Harlan Lane

Related Films for Discussion

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Awakenings (1990)

Barfi! (2012)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Being There (1979)

Benny & Joon (1993)

A Brief History of Time (1989)

Beyond Silence (1998)

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

The Color of Paradise (1999)

Coming Home (1978)

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (2007)

For a Deaf Son (Documentary) (1993)

The Elephant Man (1980)

The Fisher King (1991)

Girl, interrupted (1999)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

In the Company of Men (1997)

King of Hearts (1996)

Memento (2000)

My Left Foot (1989)

Nell (1994)

The Piano (1993)

Rain Man (1988)

Shine (1996)

Sling Blade (1996)

The Water Dance (1992)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

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