Children with disabilities often demonstrate reduced participation in social occupations such as recess play, due to exclusion by others. Children without disabilities are often lacking understanding or awareness about a child’s disability and are therefore less likely to be accepting. Disability awareness simulation programs are often helpful in increasing level of inclusion and accpetance, but are costly and time-intensive. Children’s picture books can serve as educational tools to increase awareness and acceptance that are cost and time efficient. However, picture books features children with disabilities are vastly underrepresented, and there is a push within the publishing field to increase diversity. Occupational therapists, due to their expertise in analyzing needs and barriers, their skills in knowledge translation, and ability to promote health and wellness, are well equipped to write, publish, and/or disseminate children’s books about children with disabilities. Such books can promote wider recognition of occupational therapy, furthering the goals of the Centennial Vision. There is also a multitude of non-traditional entrepreurial possibilities possibilities and marketing opportunities associated with the writing or distribution of children’s books featuring children with disabilities. In addition to such books helping promote awareness and acceptance of children with disabilities, occupational therpists and clinics could directly and indirectly profit from the selling or distribution of these books.
