Kent, D. (2003). Athletes with Disabilities. Franklin Watts, ISBN 0-613-67598-3, hardcover, 63 pages.

Athletes with Disabilities explores the people and events involved in sports competitions for individuals with physical and mental disabilities. Each of the five chapters is focused on a different period in the development of disability sports. The advent of the 1924 Silent Games, the world's first international competition for athletes with disabilities, is chronicled, with information about how this event led to the development of the Special Olympics in 1968, and what the future holds for the Paralympics.

This book highlights stars including Jim Abbot, a single-handed baseball player who pitched for the U.S. team in a gold medal game during the 1988 Olympic Games; Jean Driscoll, the first wheelchair racer to win the Boston Marathon six years in a row; and Marla Runyan, the first legally blind athlete to win a place on the U.S. Olympic team in track and field.

Other features include: (1) bold keywords that can be found in a glossary in the back of this book, (2) a timeline of all the important dates in the history of disabled sports, and (3) a resource guide for books, organizations, and websites to locate information about athletes with disabilities.