This Is How We Talk, Jessica Slice
This Is How We Talk, Jessica Slice
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This Is How We Talk
A Celebration of Disability and Connection

Author: Jessica Slice, Caroline Cupp

Narrator: Andrea Emmes

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/09/2025

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive audiobook that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other.

We sign, write, clap! We tap, stim, scream! So many ways to talk and joke, play and learn and dream. This joyful read-aloud, with an empowering refrain, from disability rights activists Jessica Slice and Caroline Cupp, demystifies and respects how disabled people and their families use different forms of communication to connect and show love.

Back matter consists of a kid-friendly guide to thinking, learning, and talking about disability and communication; a glossary of the different disabilities represented throughout the book; and a guide for grown-ups on ways to encourage discussions about disabilities with the children in their lives. Throughout, This Is How We Talk centers, affirms, and encourages the disabled children and adults who are already doing the challenging work of advocating for themselves and finding strength in community.

About The Author

Jessica Slice is an author and essayist who writes about her experience as a disabled mom who uses a power wheelchair. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Disability Visibility, and more. She lives in Canada with her family. Caroline Cupp is a disabled progressive pastor in Philadelphia.Kayla Harren is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the Lambda Literary Award winner Calvin. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a BFA in illustration, and lives in Minnesota with her husband and dogs.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sutton on August 14, 2025

What beautiful illustrations and a wonderful message about being inclusive!......more

Goodreads review by Diana on August 22, 2025

This book is a great way of introducing the topic of disabilities to your kids. I really liked the explanations at the end because my kids were really curious about all the things they could see on the illustrations and kept asking questions that I didn’t have the answers to while reading the story.......more

Goodreads review by Ariana on September 29, 2025

This is a picture book that focuses on how people with disabilities communicate. It shows how people interact, using sign languages, speech devices and movement to communicate with one another. A key theme in this book is inclusivity. I like this book because it shows some of the various disabilitie......more

Goodreads review by Aolund on July 22, 2025

A delightful celebration of disability, family and community, and diverse forms of communication. Most of the text is rhyming, with some refrain text-- This is how we talk! The illustrations are full of emotion and detail-- kids will enjoy poring over them. Themes: Disability, Communication, Disabili......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on December 24, 2025

This Is How We Talk: A Celebration of Disability and Connection is a fantastic nonfiction picture book about the different ways we talk to each other, whether we use spoken language, sign language, stimming, gestures and expressions, assistive technology, or any other way we might communicate! With......more

Quotes

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2025

★ "Featuring exceptional accounts and impactful illustrations of different forms of communication, this book is a true celebration of all people living with disabilities and an invaluable learning experience for children and their grown-ups. This is a first purchase for all collections.”—School Library Journal, starred review

“An exuberant and inclusive look at the many ways we all express ourselves.” —Kirkus

“This picture book would be great for helping students better understand the variety of communication styles in the classroom or as reassurance for a child who may communicate outside the expected verbal means.” —Booklist

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