This book supplies stories, essays, and lesson plans along with specialized storytelling strategies to help teachers "level the playing field" for all learners and better serve children with special needs. Provides a variety of successful storytelling strategies for reaching and teaching children with specific disabilities, enabling educators and mentors to choose options that will work best for their teaching environment and students; Provides immediate access to stories, strategies, and adaptations to meet specific needs; Offers a joyful, engaging, and thoroughly human way to interact with all students―a method that makes giving the gift of empathetic education easier.