 | This Is How We Talk: A Celebration Of Disability And Connection Author: Slice, Jessica | |
| Price: $14.24 | ||
Summary:
A rhyming picture book that demystifies and respects how disabled people and their families use different forms of communication to connect and show love.
Reviews:
Booklist (07/01/25)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 07/01/2025 Disabled disability advocates Slice and Cupp explore the various ways communication happens, with emphasis on the communication experiences of disabled people. The duo highlights a number of ways to “talk,” from verbal communication to physical expression to AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) devices. No variation of communication is treated as better than another, since each conveys its necessary message. The semirealistic illustrations capture a variety of experiences—wheelchair users utilizing photo communication posters, siblings touching heads together with a soft hat as a cushion, computerized voices emitting from a tablet, head nods, stimming, sign language, written language—with sparkling currents surrounding the communicating object or motion. Though this isn’t nonfiction, the concepts conveyed are all applicable to everyday life and feature a variety of disabilities and physical expressions, such as people with various assistive devices, skin tones, and family compositions. This picture book would be great for helping students better understand the variety of communication styles in the classroom or as reassurance for a child who may communicate outside the expected verbal means. - Copyright 2025 Booklist.
