Category: SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy

• ‘The First Thing About You’- Hayden, Chaz

  A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself. When fifteen-year-old Harris moves with his family from California (home of beautiful-but-inaccessible beaches) to New Jersey (home of some much-hyped pizza and bagels), he’s determined to be known as more than just the kid in the powered wheelchair. Armed with his favorite…

  The Disability Archives

  7th Dec 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Contemporary, Disability, Disability Aid User, Fiction, Genre, H, Mobility Aid User, Novels, Physical Disability, Realistic, Romance, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Wheelchair User, Young Adult

  Contemporary, Fiction, Mobility Aids, Novel, Physical Disability, Realistic Fiction, Romance, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, USA, Wheelchair User, Young Adult

• ‘Every Cripple a Superhero’- Keller, Christoph

  Most stories of disability follow a familiar pattern: Life Before Accident. Life After Accident. For Christoph Keller, it was different: his childhood diagnosis with a form of Spinal Muscular Atrophy only revealed what had been with him since birth. SMA III, the ‘kindest one’, allows those who have it to live a long life, and…

  The Disability Archives

  14th Oct 2023

  Age, Author, Book Type, Creative Non-Fiction, Disability, Disability Aid User, Genre, K, Memoir, Misc, Mobility Aid User, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Wheelchair User

  Accessibility, Disability Accommodation, Inaccessibility, Memoir, Non-Fiction, Physical Disability, SMA | Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Spine, Stand Alone, Submitted Book, The Disabled Experience, Wheelchair User