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Flap your hands: a celebration of stimming
By Steve Asbell. 2024
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Disabilities fiction, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
Human-narrated audio
"When four neurodivergent kids face some stressful moments, they use body movements called stims to self-regulate their emotions. One boy…
tickles the space next to his face; a girl flutters her fingers by her ears; another boy kicks his feet like splashy flippers; another girl directs her hands like a conductor! As the children say fun words, flap their hands, and engage in other stims, their actions build in energy and joyousness until their inner calm is restored."-- Provided by publisher
Joined at the joints
By Marissa Eller. 2024
DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Disabilities fiction, Romance
Human-narrated audio
"Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy, finds solace in baking and watching the Food Network to cope with her illness and social…
anxiety, but when she meets a cute classmate with the same juvenile rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, she must decide whether to maintain a façade or be brave and let go in their budding romance." -- WorldCat
Give me a sign
By Anna Sortino. 2023
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted)
Romance, Disabilities fiction
Human-transcribed braille
"Seventeen-year-old Lilah, who wears hearing aids, returns to a summer camp for the Deaf and Blind as a counselor, eager…
to improve her ASL and find her place in the community, but she did not expect to also find romance along the way." -- Provided by publisher
Flap Your Hands: A Celebration of Stimming
By Steve Asbell. 2024
Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Multi-cultural fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
This fascinating, groundbreaking picture book by an autistic creator celebrates stims--the repetitive movements that provide focused stimulation to people on…
the autistic spectrum.When you're feeling overwhelmedAnd the world's too much to bear...If your feelings bubble overBut they have no place to go... Maybe it would help to move!Want to try a stim? When four neurodivergent kids face some stressful moments, they use body movements called stims to self-regulate their emotions. One boy tickles the space next to his face; a girl flutters her fingers by her ears; another boy kicks his feet like splashy flippers; another girl directs her hands like a conductor! As the children say fun words, flap their hands, and engage in other stims, their actions build in energy and joyousness until their inner calm is restored. Delightful text and color-drenched illustrations by debut author-illustrator Steve Asbell invites other neurodivergent readers to join in on the action. Flap Your Hands is a wonderful celebration and reminder that stimming is a natural and healthy thing to do!