DisabilityInContext

danff — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:09:00 +0000

Disability Social History Project
About the Disability Social History Project
“The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim our history and determine how we want to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world.”

danff — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:50:00 +0000

The Sprout Film Festival
making the invisible visable
“We invite you to experience film and video related to the field of developmental disabilities. People with developmental disabilities as subjects and performers remain marginalized in the media. The Sprout Film Festival aims to raise their profile by showcasing works of all genres featuring this population.
By presenting films of artistry and intellect, the festival hopes to reinforce accurate portrayals of people with developmental disabilities and expose the general public to important issues facing this population. The goal is an enjoyable and enlightening experience that will help breakdown stereotypes, promoting a greater acceptance of differences and awareness of similarities. “

danff — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:59:00 +0000

DisabilityStatistics.org

What is the objective of DisabilityStatistics.org?

“The DisabilityStatistics.org web site condenses several data sources into a single, user-friendly, accessible, Internet resource. It also provides essential background information on key issues related to disability statistics.”

What is the history of DisabilityStatistics.org?
“For several years, researchers at Cornell University, with funding from the National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), have generated and distributed a large volume of national statistics on the prevalence of disability and the employment, income, and poverty status of people with disabilities. These statistics were often calculated over many years, across states, by type of disability and/or across demographic characteristics. Numerous scientific research papers, policy briefs, academic journal articles, book chapters, and research summaries have drawn on these disability statistics. Recently, the demand for additional demographic and statistical information has grown as a wider audience becomes interested in disability statistics.

To meet these needs, researchers at Cornell University designed the DisabilityStatistics.org web site to make disability statistics and related demographic information available and accessible to a broad audience via the Internet.”

danff — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:47:00 +0000

LeroyMoore.com
“Leroy Moore is a disabled African American writer, poet, hip-hop lover, community activist and feminist. He has been sharing his perspective on identity, race & disability for the last thirteen years. His work began in London, England where he discovered a Black Disabled Movement which help led to the creation of his lecture series; ’On the Outskirts: Race & Disability. Leroy F. Moore Jr. is a consultant on Race & Disability. He has studied, worked and lectured in the field of race and disability concerning blues, hip-hop, and social justice issues in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa.

Leroy currently lectures for Speak Out, a national speaker’s bureau. For more than ten years Leroy has collected CDs, videos and articles from Blind Blues Artists and has rare CDs from disabled hip-hop artists.

Leroy has interviewed disabled hip-hop\soul\blues artists; DJ Quad of LA, Paraplegic MC of Chicago, Rob DA Noize of New York and the Blind Boys of Alabama to name a few. He has performed with Molotov Mouths, Po Poets, the Welfare Poets, Black Disabled Artists Sharing Stories, and has been a guest artist\lecturer in High schools and Universities across the country and in Canada & UK.”

danff — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:08:00 +0000

Seeing Beyond Sight
photographs by blind teenagers
By Tony Deifell
“What are you thinking, teaching photography to blind people?”

danff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:42:00 +0000

The Advocacy & Empowerment for Minorities Program (A&E)
“The Advocacy & Empowerment for Minorities Program (A&E) is an applied research center in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The program’s mission is to develop, implement and evaluate interventions and strategies that improve the quality of life for ethnic minority individuals with disabilities and their families. A & E is a community based program that incorporates participatory action research and intervention. Since its inception over 12 years ago, A&E has worked with over 400 individuals with disabilities and/or family members in the community and numerous community-based organizations. This interdisciplinary center administers multiple projects funded by federal, state and local grants and contracts.”

danff — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:51:00 +0000

OUCH! Podcast
“The show features funny, intelligent hosts and interesting guests…

A truly great experience, thought provoking, creative and often hilarious… take the time to download and listen to the full archive of shows.”

danff — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:26:00 +0000

No Autistics Allowed
By Michelle Dawson
“Explorations in discrimination against autistics”

danff — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:46:00 +0000

Disability Studies at Syracuse
“The Center on Human Policy, Law, and Disability Studies (CHPLDS) is an expansion of the Center on Human Policy, which was founded by Dr. Burton Blatt in 1971. The Center is a network of academic programs, centers, student organizations, and affiliated faculty whose research, teaching, and advocacy seeks to promote the rights of people with disabilities locally, nationally, and globally, and to facilitate a critical examination of disability as an aspect of diversity in society.”

Founding SU Academic Programs and Centers

danff — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:00:00 +0000

AskAnAspie.com
A site put together by a group of college students who are on the spectrum, the site offers advice to others based on their own personal experiences. Though the site hasn’t been updated in a while it’s still a great resource.

“When it comes to information about autism, there are a lot of resources written by professionals for parents. There are a lot of support groups by parents for parents. But how much information out there aimed at parents was written by autistics? It can be hard for a neurotypical parent to understand how an autistic child sees the world, especially when that child has trouble communicating. We are a group of students at the University of Chicago who have Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism, and we’re here to provide a window into the autistic worldview. We can provide information from our own personal experience, point you towards information in the thriving online autistic community, or give you a history of Middle English Pronouns. We’re aspies. Between us, we know a lot of random stuff.”