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Attention and wonder

Learning to see, and to stay with what is seen.

Language American Sign Language is a language here, not an accommodation.
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窓ぎわのトットちゃん Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi · The middle years · about eight and up

The true story of a small girl who did not fit an ordinary school, and the headmaster who built one that fit her — a train-car classroom where a child was met as she actually was.

Why it belongs It is the free edge as a school: read the grain of the child before deciding what she can hold. The card leads in Japanese because the display order is itself a statement about whose language leads.

  • Attention and wonder
  • Difference honored
  • The table and the gathering

In Japanese, English, Vietnamese, Spanish audiobook

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自閉症の僕が跳びはねる理由 The Reason I Jump

Naoki Higashida · The wider school · for grown-ups and teens

A young non-speaking autistic writer answers, in short chapters, the questions people ask about him — offered from the inside rather than about him from the outside.

Why it belongs An own-voices book that belongs to the neurodiversity wing, Through Other Windows. Nothing about us without us is not a slogan on this shelf; it is how the shelf is chosen.

  • Difference honored
  • Attention and wonder

In Japanese, English audiobook

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