13 Nov 2025
To honour this year's Disability Awareness Month's theme: Livelihood and Employment, the Online Library is sharing some challenges where we as a society and individuals can be a bit more aware and supportive with little changes. We are also happy to share some inspiring role models and success stories of societies embracing ways to incorporate everyone.
"Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century" by Alice Wong
Author and Activist, Alice Wong shares experiences, interviews and anecdotal problems and solutions from activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and regular everyday folk. A compelling and inspiring read.
"Shaping Inclusive Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities: A Management and HRM Practitioner Perspective"
All of us mean well, but it's hard to know what you don't know and to think of what it is you didn't think of...this particular book does an excellent job of providing useeful and informative information that expands across industries.
"Dismantling Barriers and Advancing the Right of Persons with Disabilities to Participate in Cultural Life: A Socio-Legal Analysis" by Delia Ferri and Ann Leahy
This scholarly work combines empirical data from cross European studies with bridging links to Article 30 CRPD and provides serious legal and sociological insights to identify the barriers to cultural participation. An informative read for anyone studying Human Rights, Law, Disability Studies or Cultural studies.
Counting Working-Age People with Disabilities : what current data tell us and options for improvement by Richard Burkhauser
Often overlooked or uncounted in US census reports, the disabled community is not always included when collecting data across race, ethnicity, marital status and age. Finally, Burkhauser has compiled this exceptional book to provide a systematic review of current statistics and data on US based working-age people with disabilities.
Career Development and Inclusive Practice : Strategies for Inclusive Practice in Career Counselling. by Chris Target and Jules Benton
A book that should be in every Career Coach or Counselors toolkit. Target and Benton provide first hand knowledge and share their own experiences as they navigate the variety of issues that can affect the many employees in the workforce, who may be dealing with a seen or unseen disability. This book provides a relaxed, empathetic and down to earth approach with step by step career support for success.
Disability as a Boundary Object: Combining Inclusivity, Value and Therapy by Per Koren Solvang
Unlike the other books in this list, which focus on providing answers and solutions, Per Koren Solvang writes about the philosophical approach society takes towards disabilities and analyses value and inclusion as narrative concepts. This book is predominantly geared towards those working with a deeper one on one ongoing experience in the disabilities field of study. The book works towards building what in the end it provides as a 'disability matrix'.
