Her first book, Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride,[1] is a memoir about her life and activism.
Throughout her childhood she was the subject of constant pity, friends and neighbors would call her "such a pretty girl" with the implication that it was a shame that such an attractive child was disabled.
[1] At the age of 13 she moved with her parents to the United States in the hopes of finding a cure and spent much of her adolescence in and out of hospitals.
[4] LaSpina's articles, essays, and stories have appeared in publications as varied as AbleNews and Ragged Edge, New Politics, And Then, and Bookwoman.
[2] Her first book, Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride, was published by New Village Press in 2019.