Medical Humanities & Medicina Narrativa | Reading Inclusion: a Framework for Selecting Picturebooks on Disability

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Medical Humanities & Medicina Narrativa

Reading Inclusion: a Framework for Selecting Picturebooks on Disability

DOI: 10.53136/979122181938034
Pages: 479-496
Publication date: June 2025
Publisher: Aracne
SSD: M-PED/01

Fabio SACCHI, Nicole BIANQUIN

Picture books are practical educational tools for fostering inclusive childhood imaginaries, especially regarding disability. This paper presents the FAIR (Framework for Authentic and Inclusive Representation), designed to help teachers and educators critically select picture books that offer realistic, respectful, and stereotype-free representations of disability.