Finding Books
- The Library CatalogComplete information on library materials held locally
- WorldCatUse this worldwide multi-library catalog to find materials in libraries beyond Cornell University.
Suggested Keywords
As disability studies continues to be highly medicalized, you may need to use medical terms or consult materials focused on medical treatments, especially with older materials. It's helpful to search using the most specific terms as is relevant to your research; for example, search "Autism Spectrum" instead of "people with disabilities." You might also need to use outdated or offensive terms, depending on the time period of your search.
These links lead to the Browse Subjects section of the library catalog. You can either browse the multitude of subjects in the catalog as well as their sub-topics, or click on the subject title to see all the books that have that subject assigned to them. You can also add subsections to a subject term to get to more specific information, such as "employment," "legal status," "economic conditions," or "social aspects."
- Acalculia
- Agraphia
- African Americans with Disabilities
- Apraxia
- Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autistic People
- Autistic People > Employment
- Autistic People > Vocational Guidance
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders > Patients > Employment
- Blind
- Blind > Economic Conditions
- Blindness
- Children with Disabilities
- Deaf
- DeafBlind People
- Deafness
- Depression
- Developmental disabilities
- Developmentally disabled
- Disability studies
- Disability
- Disabilities
- Disabilities > Social Aspects
- Disabled persons
- Discrimination against people with disabilities
- Down Syndrome
- Dwarfism
- Dwarfs (Persons)
- Dyscalculia
- Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia
- Hispanic Americans with Disabilities
- Intellectual disability
- Learning disabilities
- Mental illness
- Mentally ill
- People with disabilities
- People with disabilities > employment
- People with disabilities > legal status
- People with mental disabilities
- Sociology of disabilities
Call Number Browsing
You can browse the shelves in any library for books in these general call number ranges. Not all call numbers can be found in every library.
The Titles used to describe the Library of Congress (LC) Call Number ranges below are the official LC Titles, and may be offensive, outdated, or inaccurate.
- HD7255-7256: Vocational rehabilitation, employment for people with disabilities
- HV888-907: Protection, assistance and relief: Children with Disabilities
- HV891-901: Children with developmental disabilities
- HV1551-3024: Protection, assistance and relief: People with Disabilities
- HV1570-1570.5: People with developmental disabilities
- HV1571-2349: Blind people including the deaf and blind
- HV2350-2990.7: Deaf. Hard of Hearing. Including deaf-mutes.
- HV2474: American Sign Language
- HV3000-3003: People who are terminally ill, incurable
- HV3003.2-3009.5: People with mental disabilities
- HV3011-3024: People with physical disabilities
- KF480: Disability law and disability rights
- LC1200-1203: Inclusive Education
- LC4001-4806.5: Children and youth with disabilities - education
- LC4717-4719: Autistic children's education
- LC4812-4827: Adults with Disabilities - education
- P99.5-99.6: Nonverbal Communication
- PN1590 H36: Performing Arts - people with disabilities
- RC372-389: Neurosciences: perception disorders, speech disorders
- RC383-388.5: Neurogenic Speech Disorders
- RC388: Cerebral Palsy
- RC394: Apraxia, Dyslexia
- RC424-429: Speech and Language disorders, stuttering, aphasia
- RC521-524: Dementia and Alzheimer's
- RC553: Autism and Asperger's syndrome
- RC569.7-574: Medical perspectives on people with developmental and intellectual disabilities
- RC802-825.2: Diseases of the digestive system: deglutition disorders, dysphagia
- RC952-954.6: Geriatrics
- RD130: Prosthesis
- RF11-308: Hearing Loss
- RF290-291: Audiology
- RF297: Aural Rehabilitation
- RF465-540: Voice Therapy, laryngology
- RJ137: Growth & development of children with disabilities
- RJ496: disorders in children
- RJ506 D47: Adjustment disorders - developmental disabilities
- RM950: Rehabilitation technology
- RZ399: Osteo-magnetics, neuropathy
Other Keyword and Language Resources
- ADA National Network's Guidelines for Writing about People with Disabilities"The words you use and the way you portray individuals with disabilities matters. This factsheet provides guidelines for portraying individuals with disabilities in a respectful and balanced way by using language that is accurate, neutral and objective."
- APA Citation Style Guide on Disability"When you are writing, you need to follow general principles to ensure that your language is free of bias. Here we provide guidelines for talking about disability with inclusivity and respect."
- AP Stylebook OnlineThe Web-based edition is a fully searchable version of the Associated Press Stylebook, including an A-Z guide to usage, spelling, and a pronunciation guide with audio files.
- Disability History Museum GlossaryGlossary definitions include the historical context of words found in our Collections and used in other Disability History Museum programs.
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed.
- NCDJ's Disability Language StyleguideThis style guide, which covers dozens of words and terms commonly used when referring to disability, was developed by the National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and was last updated in the summer of 2021. Includes background, suggestions, and comparison to AP guidelines.
- PsycINFOGo into the database, then click on the "APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms" to see the current list of terms used by the APA.