How to Elevate Your Broadcast's Live Captioning Quality
3playmedia.com
There are some easy ways to elevate your live captioning quality from acceptable to all-star. We’ll show you how in this blog.
9 Hacks to Make Your Home More Accessible
newmobility.com
Wheelchair users share inexpensive hacks for making your space a little easier to manage.
Disability Sports Australia announces partnership with Victorian Government
disabilityinsider.com
Disability Sports Australia (DSA) is today pleased to announce a partnership with the Victorian Government through its Significant Sporting Events Program to support the upcoming 2022 Toyota Wheelchair AFL National Championships.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Medicare
meriahnichols.com
This is a comprehensive post about Medicare. It covers: What is Medicare? What Are the Parts of Medicare? Detailed Explanations on the Parts of Medicare? Who Can Get Medicare and way more – please refer to the table below with links to jump directly to the part you are looking for guidance on. Kathleen Downes wrote this post. She knows a whole lot about Medicare but she does not work for Medicare. Take what’s offered here as friendly advice and do your own investigation too!
Ai-Media CIOReview
ai-media.tv
Ai-Media has been recognized by CIOReview as one of the world's leading names in digital accessibility.
iCap Alta CCMatch
ai-media.tv
Ai-Media's iCap Alta IP encoder now features CCMatch for improved audience experience.
New Voting Laws Add Difficulties for People With Disabilities
nytimes.com
Restrictions in several states on mail-in voting are sending more people with disabilities to the polls. What they find isn’t always easy to navigate.
Understanding Cerebral Palsy
notionpress.com
Cerebral Palsy is a bodily condition caused by damage to motor nerves before, during or after birth. People with Cerebral Palsy are the most misunderstood lot about their capabilities in the society. There was a need for a book which could explain every aspect of life of persons with Cerebral Palsy. This book also attempts to explain as to what steps can be taken to mainstream them in society. Various alternative therapies which are useful for persons with Cerebral Palsy also find a mention in this book.
The Adventures of Cyril Squirrel: SOS Superhero
youtube.com
Join Cyril Squirrel on his adventures as he Saves Our Schools! If you would like your very own Cyril Squirrel book, you can buy a copy from any of these links, profits go to the Save Our Schools Campaign.
Perfectly normal
nature.com
Andrew Solomon hails a study on how conflating ‘ideal’ and ‘average’ spawned flawed concepts of identity.
The Left-Wing Tech Investor Running For Governor
npr.org
A man with an eclectic career — youngest president of the NAACP, Silicon Valley tech investor — wants to be the governor of Maryland. NPR spent two days with him on the campaign trail.
Dear Matthew Perry: My Life Is Not Your Cautionary Tale
themighty.com
"I’ve traveled, hiked, sang, written, eaten, drank, loved, celebrated, and lived—not in spite of my ostomy bag, but because of it."
Easy Beauty
uk.bookshop.org
So begins Chloe Cooper Jones's bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, she must contend not only with her own physical pain, but the emotional discomfort of others.
Places I've Taken My Body
uk.bookshop.org
'Urgent, compelling and lyrically, luminously beautiful . . . a brilliant, heart-rending read.' Psychologies Magazine. Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing twin, a life in poetry. As she does, she depicts vividly for us not only her own life but a striking array of sites and topics, among them Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the world's oldest anatomical theater, Eugenics, and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Throughout, Brown offers us the gift of her exquisite sentences, woven together in consideration, always, of what it means to be human: flawed, potent, feeling.
Driving Forwards: A journey of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury
uk.bookshop.org
As seen on 'Living Wild; How to Change your Life' a two-part prime-time series on Channel 4, Loose Women and The Great Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C.
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
uk.bookshop.org
In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain's 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse. In Crippled, journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan exposes the disturbing reality, telling the stories of those most affected by this devastating regime. It is at once both a damning indictment of a safety net so compromised it strangles many of those it catches and a passionate demand for an end to austerity, which hits hardest those most in need.
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
uk.bookshop.org
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most. Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), inspirational (Helen Keller), or angelic (Forrest Gump). None of this felt right; and as she got older, she longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Writing about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn't fit, Rebekah reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. Disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another. By exploring this truth in poignant and lyrical essays, Taussig illustrates the need for more stories and more voices to understand the diversity of humanity. Sitting Pretty challenges us as a society to be patient and vigilant, practical and imaginative, kind and relentless, as we set to work to write an entirely different story.
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
theguardian.com
Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person - and ignores the politics of their distress.
Long COVID is sidelining millions of workers from their jobs
npr.org
An estimated 4 million workers in the U.S. are struggling to work due to debilitating symptoms from long COVID. The government is urging employers to provide accommodations to keep them on the job.
CDC's New COVID Rules Mark Change in the Pandemic, How We Live
webmd.com
The CDC's recent move to ease COVID guidelines marks a significant shift in the pandemic and how we've lived during it. Here's how experts are reacting to the change.
What Disability Justice Activist Stacey Park Milbern Taught Us
kqed.org
Stacey Park Milbern was an expert at organizing people. A self-identifying queer disabled woman of color, she organized an effort to help her move from North Carolina to the Bay Area so that she could live independently as a disabled person. Stacey was a well-known leader within the disability justice movement.
11 Disability Rights Activists on Where the Fight for Justice Stands
teenvogue.com
“It means unapologetically loving and fighting for all parts of me.”
Disabled Britain: Doing It For Ourselves - Latest news, pictures & videos
mirror.co.uk
Disabled Britain: Doing It For Ourselves, is a week-long series across the Daily Mirror's print and digital platforms, showcasing the lives of disabled people and the issues important to us.
See Us. Hear Us
youtube.com
This open-captioned short documentary film features Jordyn Zimmerman, and is the first in CommunicationFIRST's See Us, Hear Us video series, produced by award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib. It first aired on CommunicationFIRST's 3rd birthday on October 7, 2022.
"We can't afford to fund more barriers!" - Do EU funds support accessibility in Europe?
enil.eu
As part of an international consortium of organizations of persons with disabilities, we are organising an event in the European Parliament titled “We can’t afford to fund building more barriers!” – Do EU-funds support accessibility in Europe?”. It is organised by the National Federation of Associations of Persons with Physical Disabilities (MEOSZ, Hungary), Socia Foundation (Slovakia), the Czech National Disability Council (NRZP), the European Disability Forum (EDF) and the European Network on Independent Living (ENIL).
Pain Interferes With Your Life & There's No Magic Wand
despitepain.com
Pain always interferes with life. It kind of becomes normal but sometimes the pain goes up a few notches and takes your breath away.
4 Required Tests Before Shipping New Features
thinkdobecreate.com
Sure your feature passed the unit tests, and QA says it's good to go - but is it? To really be sure, here are four types of tests that are best to consider critical to every feature from the start. Include these tests to improve the accessibility of your features and assist your users in successfully completing tasks.
Moving From Moderate To Milder ME/CFS – My Experience
lifeofpippa.co.uk
If you’re new here, hello! My name is Pippa and I’ve lived with chronic illness since I was a teenager. Before we begin, you might find it helpful to read more about my background and chronic illness story first. I’m not a medical professional, and I definitely don’t speak for every individual with ME/CFS – the experiences I share here are only my own, but I share them in the hope they’ll be helpful or comforting for others.
XR ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF XR FOR ALL FOUNDATION
xra.org
On Tuesday, November 1st, the XR Association (XRA), the trade association representing the growing ecosystem of companies powering virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (XR), announced the formation of the XR for All Foundation. The announcement was made at XRA’s Limitless Future Conference which brought together learning & development professionals with XR equipment and software providers to learn and experience the many uses of immersive technology firsthand.
Advocacy for access
hub.jhu.edu
Junior Zandy Wong learned to advocate for accessibility in her own education, and she's using that knowledge to advocate in organizations across the country. She was recently honored for her efforts as a recipient of the Heumann-Armstrong Award.
How You Can Future-Proof and Differentiate Your Business
equalentry.com
Just when we thought the pandemic is the biggest thing we have to deal with, then comes the Great Resignation, because we don’t have enough labor. And now there’s talk about pending recession. And then, on top of that, we have wars going on. The world is turning upside down, so if you are a CEO, or you’re a C-suite executive in business, your head is spinning about all the changes and all the challenges you face in business.
Testing accessibility with Storybook
blog.logrocket.com
One big challenge when building a component library is prioritizing accessibility. Accessibility is usually seen as one of those “nice-to-have” features, and unfortunately, we’re still far from considering it an essential part of a developer’s skill set.
Prototype device allows users to listen to music through the sense of touch #Music #Accessibility
blog.adafruit.com
Listen to music with the sense of touch. The method maps the music from MIDI files into “vibrotactile stimuli.”
Accessibility beyond the ‘obvious’
tempertemper.net
When we think of accessibility, we often focus on the tools people use to access digital content on a practical level. We might picture someone who uses just the keyboard for navigation; screen reader users; people who use speech recognition software.
Barry Hill talks about screen readers and lack of semantic meaning on the web
a11yrules.com
Barry says he has to guess a lot about what elements do what on a site, because semantically meaningful markup isn’t being used.
Safe, Everyday Flight for Everyone: Wisk, Accessibility, and the Future of Aviation
wisk.aero
“The current bar for accessibility standards in aviation is too low,” says Saurabh Nimsarkar, one of our Senior User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designers, “we want to surpass industry standards and do better. We are working to make accessibility a part of our brand ethos.”
Virtual Reality Accessibility: 11 Things We Learned from Blind Users
equalentry.com
The current platforms and systems used in virtual reality (VR) technologies cannot be used by people who are blind. Equal Entry believes that VR should be accessible to all people with disabilities.
Insight: How the education system is failing my deaf child
limpingchicken.com
Having grown up with a deaf brother, I knew there was a chance that my children could be deaf if I had inherited or passed on the deaf gene that was prevalent in my family.
Captioned theatre slumped by almost 8% when venues reopened after Covid lockdowns, Stagetext reveals
limpingchicken.com
The arts access charity Stagetext saw a 7.5% fall in captioned theatre performances last year, compared to the pre-Covid numbers of 2019/20, it has been revealed.
‘Grave concerns’ as child speech and language therapy waiting times in Northern Ireland increas…
limpingchicken.com
The number of children in Northern Ireland waiting for speech and language therapy (SLT) in April was almost 90% higher than the same month in 2021, new figures from the country’s commissioner for children and young people (NICCY) has revealed.
No plans were made to provide sign language interpreter for mini-budget reversal statement, Treasur…
limpingchicken.com
There were no plans to interpret Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s October statement into British Sign Language (BSL), the Treasury has revealed.
Age and Disability: A Blindspot in Policy Making?
enil.eu
There is an emerging awareness on the intersectionality between disability and age. With age, the likelihood of a person acquiring a disability increases. Yet, disability support services, such as personal assistance, are usually not available for persons above the age of 65. Older persons with disabilities are largely excluded from the debates on independent living and deinstitutionalisation.
Deen Hallissey interviews Kuli Kohli of the Onyx Collective
disabilityarts.online
DAO’s content influencer, Deen Hallissey, interviews Wolverhampton Poet Laureate and Onyx member Kuli Kohli on the debut of the Onyx Collective publication, Practicing Apologetics, to discuss what matters most within their poetry.
Thomas Pocklington Trust joins call on ticket offices
pocklington-trust.org.uk
Thomas Pocklington Trust has added its voice to a letter calling on MPs to act in order to prevent ticket offices at railway stations from closing.
DanceSyndrome celebrated with Arts Council funding boost
dancesyndrome.co.uk
DanceSyndrome has been announced as one of 990 National Portfolio Organisations receiving a share of £446 million investment from Arts Council England’s 2023-26 Investment Programme to bring art, culture, and creativity to more people, in more places, across the UK.
Remote work challenges inspire Windows 11 updates to increase productivity and lessen distractions
blogs.windows.com
When pandemic lockdowns more than two years ago required Swetha Machanavajhala to work from home, she almost immediately felt the impact on her ability to work efficiently.
People With Long COVID Face Barriers to Government Disability Benefits
usnews.com
Some people with long COVID have fallen through the cracks of the government’s disability system, which was time-consuming and difficult to navigate even before the pandemic.
Winners announced for National Center on Disability and Journalism 2022 awards
cronkite.asu.edu
The National Center on Disability and Journalism has announced the winners of the 2022 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability as well as the inaugural winners of the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.
The Past, Present, & Future of Disability Justice
withkeri.com
Because of the misappropriation of it by White, Cis, Straight Disabled people, when people hear the words “Disability Justice” some assume I mean justice for only disabled people or Disabled-identifying people, who are mostly white or privileged in other ways. Physical access only, disability access only. Formal systems and service processes treat disability in a way that is informed by white supremacy and colonization. Some could be disabled and not know it for many reasons.
Compulsory dementia education as important as pay rise for aged care workers
disabilityinsider.com
Dementia Australia welcomes the Fair Work Commission’s decision to deliver a pay increase for workers in the aged care sector who care for some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Four ways to make emojis accessible
abilitynet.org.uk
Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes, Smiling Cat Face With Heart-Eyes, Hundred Points. If you don’t recognise those descriptions, perhaps you’re more familiar with their pictoral form – they're emojis.
DansFunk
skanesdansteater.se
Skånes Dansteater is continuously working towards developing and challenging dance as an artform. One part of this work is our annual festivals or conferences examining and exploring different aspects of dance.
Selena Gomez Tackles Mental Heath Struggles in 'My Mind and Me' Documentary
themighty.com
"Selena brings to light mental health conversations that are typically left in the shadows."
Finding Blindness: International Constructions and Deconstructions
routledge.com
This edited volume explores blindness as a construct with which we the contributors engage as part of our social existence and/or academic research. Irrespective of eye conditions, or the lack thereof, blindness is an understanding at which we have all come to arrive. On the way to this conceptual point, which is in any case unlikely ever to be fixed, we have passed or visited many formative cultural stations.
Does Policy Impact Equitable Access to Services? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discharge Policie…
scienceopen.com
Having the choice to access rehabilitation services is a right of disabled children. In Ontario, Canada, paediatric rehabilitation services are provided by Children’s Treatment Centres (CTCs), and many manage missed appointments using discharge policies. The impact of discharge policies on access to rehabilitation services is unknown. This study critically examined the language of policies around missed appointments and impacts on service access. Using qualitative critical discourse analysis, text from discharge policies was analysed, considering how marginalised groups (e.g., low-income families, culturally diverse families) may be affected by CTC discharge policies. Discourses of family-centred service, health equity and the perpetuation of established power relations within paediatric rehabilitation were represented in the language of policies. Current policies place the organisation in a position of power, de-value family choice and risk infringing on the right of disabled children to access paediatric rehabilitation services when desired.
Human Rights Bulletin : Protection and Safety of Children with Disabilities in the Residential Inst…
scienceopen.com
This bulletin considers the situation of children with disabilities in Ukraine, who at the time of the onset of the armed conflict were living in institutional care. DRI investigations have revealed that despite abundant international assistance, the government of Ukraine and international relief agencies have failed to ensure the safety and protect the lives of these children within institutions – or to ensure their safe return to families in the community.
ENIL-ECCL Webinar Series on Deinstitutionalisation
enil.eu
This webinar, entitled “Operationalising the new UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation, including in Emergencies – the case of Sweden, Slovenia and Scotland” is part of a yearly programme of sharing and seeking solutions. Each session has featured a guest speaker and an update from one or more of the countries that we have been following over the past year.
Disabled musicians in limelight at Soliall Philharmonic US concerts
koreaherald.com
Under the theme “Visual Music, Musical Art,” two concerts featuring an orchestra and disabled guest musicians, were held in the US last weekend.
The urgent American blood shortage, explained
theweek.com
Hospitals will be forced to make hard choices about who receives immediate care due to the critically limited supply.
New regulations for kiosks and self-service transaction machines? We’ve been here before
lflegal.com
On September 21, 2022 the United States Access Board, a federal government agency, issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ANPRM) about kiosks. The Notice is about the details for making self-service kiosks (alternatively referred to as self-service transaction machines (SSTMs)) independently usable by people with disabilities.
Woke-ing up: how tackling ableism benefits everyone
artsprofessional.co.uk
We all need to work harder to ensure that culture is fully accessible to disabled audiences. When we do, there are positive spinoffs for everyone, argues Richard Leeming.
Finding Strength as an Artist With Chronic Illness
hyperallergic.com
When the profits from every sale are dumped right back into medical costs, what does the balance of surviving and creating even look like?
Disability Justice and Elder Activism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
nextavenue.org
As we age, disability is likely to become a part of daily life. Sadly, ageism and ableism are often intertwined.
The Long COVID Survival Guide
theexperimentpublishing.com
The first patient-to-patient guide for people living with Long COVID—with expert advice on getting diagnosed, dealing with symptoms, accessing resources and accommodations, and more.
A Year Later: Remembering Engracia
domesticemployers.org
Engracia passed away on October 31st, 2021 due to complications from injuries she sustained when United Airlines destroyed her custom wheelchair on a return flight home from Washington DC— where she and her friend and personal care attendant Christine Laing were representing Hand in Hand at the Care Can’t Wait rally and art installation— to push for federal investments in home and community based services.
CDC issues new opioid prescribing guidelines for managing pain
npr.org
The updated recommendations seek to course correct after guidelines from 2016 were criticized for harshly limiting access to needed pain medication.
The Worst Pediatric-Care Crisis in Decades
theatlantic.com
An early, massive wave of RSV, flu, and other viral infections is slamming kids and overcrowding emergency departments.
X: Ten - DanceSyndrome Celebration at The Lowry
dancesyndrome.co.uk
X: Ten marks DanceSyndrome’s 10th birthday of becoming a registered charity and will bring to life our work over the last 10 years as well as looking forward to the next 10 years.
European Launch of the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation, including in Emergencies
enil.eu
On 9 September 2022, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted the Guidelines on deinstitutionalisation, including in emergencies. The aim of these first global guidelines on deinstitutionalisation is to guide and support States parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in their efforts to realise the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and to be included in the community. They complement the Committee’s General Comment No. 5 (2017) on Article 19 CRPD and its guidelines on the right to liberty and security of persons with disabilities.
Meaningful Accessibility in the Workplace: An Interview with Disability Rights Activist Emily Ladau
reformjudaism.org
Emily Ladau is a Jewish disability rights activist, writer, storyteller, and digital communications consultant. We sat down with Emily to chat about how Jewish values inform her work and what employers, employees, and coworkers can do to proactively affirm people with disabilities in the workplace.
There is a looming housing crisis for people with disabilities. Here’s how we can act now
thehill.com
More than 18 million housed disabled people in the U.S. are eligible for federal housing assistance but are not receiving it, compounding already high barriers to affordable and accessible housing, according to new research from The Kelsey and Urban Institute. This data shows how crucial it is for Congress and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to follow through on their commitments to fund housing for people with disabilities.
Keeping Americans with disabilities from poverty must remain a priority
thehill.com
Congressional Republicans continue to look for ways to dismantle the much-needed program.
Stacey Abrams highlights disability in campaign for Georgia governor
19thnews.org
The gubernatorial candidate said she would clear the backlog of more than 7,000 people on the waiting list for Medicaid-funded services in their own homes.
Disabled People Can Be Productive Workers, But That Shouldn't Determine Our Worth
disabilityphilanthropy.org
As a disabled person, I have spent my entire working life trying to unlearn the idea that I’m not a productive or efficient worker because of my disability. I’ve also overcompensated for this concern in myriad ways, taking on extra unpaid work at jobs or having multiple side hustles to make sure that my resume shows that I go above and beyond. During the interview process, I often either hide or downplay my disability and any necessary accommodations, fearful of discrimination. I feel like I need to be at least twice as hardworking, skilled, and educated as a nondisabled person to get a job, keep it, and continue to get promoted.
Opinion: Don't Overlook Disabled New Yorkers in Congestion Pricing Plan
citylimits.org
“In its current form, the state’s congestion pricing plan falls short of meaningfully addressing impacts on New York’s disabled community—a community the MTA has neglected for decades.”
Disability Rights Are Workers’ Rights
tcf.org
"When I first sat down to write my book, FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor, I wasn’t sure how to include disabled folks. In the book, I cover how the rights the American worker has today—the forty-hour workweek, workplace-safety standards, restrictions on child labor, protection from harassment and discrimination on the job—were earned with literal blood, sweat, and tears. I knew a little bit about disability history, and a lot about U.S. labor history, but found that I knew next to nothing about the places where they met, or about how disabled people have been essential to the fight for workers’ rights. As a disabled labor journalist, this was a bit unsettling for me, so I started connecting dots."
Unitarian Universalists resolve to fight ableism highlighted by pandemic
religionnews.com
'You get a bunch of 'UUs' committed to systemic change, and things start to happen,' said one drafter of the new anti-ableism commitment.
What Is the Prize Money for the NYC Marathon?
nytimes.com
The men’s and women’s winners will receive $100,000. The wheelchair winners got less — but made up for some of it with bonuses.
Social impact investing: big four banks look to mimic UK’s Big Society Capital
afr.com
The prime minister has reconvened the social impact investing taskforce, which has engaged with major bank CEOs on a co-funding model for social services.
What Future for Health Activism?
publicbooks.org
A more critical consciousness of the connections between family, health, race, and gender was brewing among food allergy advocates in the exceptionally catastrophic summer of 2020.
Disability Justice and Violence Prevention Resource Hub – Created by Survivors of Violence with D…
indisabilityjustice.org
Created by Survivors of Violence with Disabilities for People with Disabilities & Our Allies.
The Kids Are Not Alright
pestakeholder.org
How Private Equity Profits Off of Behavioral Health Services for Vulnerable and At-Risk Youth.
Help Telephone Film reach its goal of 15k by Nov 15th!
youtube.com
Support disability justice and arts access - help Telephone Film reach its goal of 15k by Nov 15th!
NSW filmmakers with disability in the lens
nsw.gov.au
Emerging filmmakers with disability are encouraged to apply for support through Screen NSW’s Screenability Filmmakers Fund.
Mad Poetry and Art: A Conversation with Stephanie Heit & Chanika Svetvilas
eventbrite.com
An evening of disability culture as two artists share work informed by their lived experience of mental health difference.
NIGHT CRUISING
nightcruising.net
What will you “see” in a film by a director who doesn’t see?
The Dark Room Presents: Audio Description as an Art Form
movementresearch.org
One of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms.
Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning
fordfoundation.org
Indisposable: Tactics for Care and Mourning is the follow-up to Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act, a three-year collaboration with more than thirty artists and scholars that emerged as eight online chapters each addressing the urgent questions of the moment where COVID-19 pandemic and demands for racial justice laid bare that some lives – especially disabled, queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) – are deemed disposable. These chapters serve as a unique archive of the ways in which artists and scholars responded to the intertwined histories of ableism and racism, delving into the profound questions of what makes our lives livable? How do we afford our own existence and what happens when we cannot? Who creates the means by which we survive; or, were we ever meant to survive? Where are we seen as disposable, and why?
Nov 10th: Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong with Wendy Lu!
eventbrite.com
This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey and the continued fight for disability rights!
Creating Access: Making Our Social Media More Accessible
eventbrite.com
Join us in disrupting ableism as we explore alt text, image descriptions, and how to make accessible social media posts.
Fred & Me: A Willowbrook Survivor's Story Conversation & Book Reading with Author Allan Goldstein
nyu.libcal.com
A second parent’s death jettisons an older brother from estranged, resentful sibling, to fierce, angry advocate, from somebody who periodically heard about his institutionalized brother to somebody who rescues a life. A person speaking strangely, walking oddly, looking different is not thought to have feelings, ideas, or desires. That person is “the other.” Fred and Me, a Willowbrook Survivor’s Story shows the emergence of a person whose childhood and adolescence were lived in the infamous Willowbrook State School. This memoir of two strangers reconnecting while helping each other rediscover themselves portrays the value of enormous devotion when combating the stigma of living differently. This memoir is a love story of brothers reunited.
Landmark disability rights figure Lois Curtis dies
npr.org
Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.
Republicans Float Changes to Social Security and Medicare
nytimes.com
Democrats have seized on Republican proposals to limit retirement benefits to galvanize voters ahead of the midterm elections.
New disability legislation to be drafted
disabilityinsider.com
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is committed to working with persons with disabilities, the people who support and advocate for them, and the wider community to deliver better outcomes for persons with disabilities.
Flood response failed to protect most at risk in Australia
disabilityinsider.com
Australian authorities failed to take effective steps to protect those most at risk from foreseeable harm of the catastrophic flooding in the New South Wales (NSW) town of Lismore in February 2022, Human Rights Watch said today. Such extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent as a result of climate change.
What I’ve learned from being a mentor for young vision impaired people
myblurredworld.com
Three years ago, I started my journey as a mentor for young vision impaired people. By no means did I think I qualified for such a role, but a part of me felt as though the openness I discovered through writing my blog served some purpose elsewhere too. And so, one day, as the yellowing leaves beckoned a new season, I embarked on a fresh chapter of my own, reaching into a pocket of self-belief and whipping out some words that comprised the bulk of my application.
How To Be A Better Disability Ally At Work
buzzfeed.com
"Disabled isn't a bad word. We're not differently abled, special needs, disAbled, or any other euphemism that makes you less uncomfortable."
First show in 100 years of disabled Victorian artist Sarah Biffin opens in London
theguardian.com
Accomplished miniaturist and a household name in 19th century was born without arms and hands.
WOWOW Paralympic documentary series WHO I AM to be continued with new season
paralympic.org
Viewers will be able to watch the new Paralympic documentary series starting in January 2023.
'Truly remarkable' woman, 23, becomes the UK's first blind Black barrister
dailymail.co.uk
Jessikah Inaba, 23, from Camden, north London, has smashed through the 'triple-glazed glass ceiling' to become Britain's first blind and Black barrister.
Artists With Disabilities Take Centre State At The Artscape Artsability Festival
signstv.co.ke
The ArtsAbility Festival celebrates the abilities of artists with disabilities. The festival seeks to instigate an innovative, creative space of exciting, heartfelt performances for persons with disabilities.
FCC mandates relay access for deaf incarcerated people
dailymoth.com
The FCC recently announced it has adopted a rule to require most correctional facilities in the U.S. to provide deaf people who are incarcerated with access to video relay ASL interpreters or other relay services eligible for the Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) fund, such as the Captioned Telephone Service or IP Relay Service.
Run for Office with a Speech Disability?
communicationfirst.org
CommunicationFIRST joins other disability rights advocates to express dismay at the public and media response to a current political candidate’s communication disability. Over the past few weeks, the media has focused unduly on communication-related accommodations reasonably requested by the candidate, and cast the candidate’s apparent audio processing and speech disabilities as markers of incompetence and unfitness to serve in office. To put the record straight, the use of this technology is no proof of these charges. Indeed, the news media relies on basically the same technology every day to receive and process information.
How can car dealerships support people with disabilities?
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In today’s technologically-advanced world, more solutions are becoming available to enable people with disabilities to not just get behind the wheel and drive a car safely but also those whom like myself still need a WAV but don’t drive themselves. And whilst more information around how to drive with a disability is becoming available online, it still remains the dealerships and salespeople responsibility to impart their expertise and ensure this demographic are catered to throughout the industry.
AGT Winner Kodi Lee Releases His First-Ever Music Video
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We last saw the musical prodigy when he sang Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" during an AGT Season 22 Live Results Show. Now on November 3, Lee—who is blind and has autism—released his first-ever music video for his original song, "Miracle."
Why I share my story
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Last year at the 2021 Wisconsin Self-Determination Conference, I was a keynote presenter and shared my life story. In this episode of Stewing with Stacy, I reflect on why I feel it’s important to share my story with others. I also share an excerpt from my keynote from last year and what has been going on in my life since then.
"How To Be An Ally": People With Disabilities And Disability Advocates Are Sharing How We Can Make …
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People with disabilities can face a variety of challenges in workplaces that aren't designed for them, but accommodations and awareness can make a huge difference. October was Disability Employment Awareness Month, but we should all work year-round to make sure our workplaces are safe, accessible, and anti-ableist.
New Book Says It’s Time to Move Beyond Disability Rights and Embrace Disability Justice
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“The Future Is Disabled” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha moves much-needed conversations on disability and mutual aid into the spotlight while pushing readers to confront their preconceived ideas about who belongs in the future.
Abandoning ‘a Lifetime of Habits’ to Avoid the ‘Sins of the Past’ : De-Congregating Institu…
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While many studies have identified the problem of reproducing small institutions in community settings, few have explored why. This article explores how staff preserve and defend institutionalised beliefs and practices in community settings. We apply the concepts of disruptive and defensive institutional work to analyse the findings of qualitative interviews at six Irish residential institutions that were identified as priority sites for a national de-congregation programme. Reflecting on their roles, staff conceptualised their practices as historical, traditional, and reflective of a bygone era. However, the findings indicate that it would be misleading to represent institutional practices as relics of the past. The programme offered an olive branch for staff members who wanted to distance themselves from a ‘lifetime of habits’ and ‘sins of the past’.
I'm Tired of School Leaders Condoning Bullies
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Our education system, at all levels, has given generations of marginalized students the chance to study nothing but survival. When will students get a chance to learn something else?
Deen Hallissey interviews Ngozi Ugochukwu of the Onyx Collective
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DAO's content influencer, Deen Hallissey, interviews photographer and Onyx member Ngozi Ugochukwu on the debut of the Onyx Collective publication, Practicing Apologetics, to discuss their creative practice and plans for the future.
UK researchers cure man with persistent Covid for over a year
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Researchers used genetic sequencing to find a treatment for the patient, who suffered a chronic coronavirus infection, testing positive for more than a year.
Yoga Allstars With Cerrie
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What an adventure! Get ready for some super kids yoga fun with Cerrie.
Sign1News
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Virtual Chat Deaf and disabled artists reshaping the arts.
Lois Curtis
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Lois Curtis was one of the plaintiffs in the landmark Supreme Court case Olmstead v. L.C. (1999) that established the right of individuals with disabilities to live in the least restrictive settings possible. Diagnosed with cognitive disabilities and schizophrenia, Curtis is no longer confined to an institution – she now lives in the community and works as a visual artist and public speaker.
Progress Over Perfection: A Better Way to Accessibility
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What does progress over perfection mean in accessibility? Why is it a better way to get people thinking about accessibility?
Disability and Other Human Questions
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Dan Goodley’s new book is oriented around six questions, each of which has a chapter devoted to it: ‘What brings us to disability and other human questions?’; ‘Who is allowed to be human?’; ‘What is human desire?’; ‘Are human beings dependent?’; ‘Are we able to be human?’; and ‘What does it mean to be human in a digital age?’. It’s notable, I think, that once that introductory chapter is out of the way, the word ‘disability’ does not appear in any of these questions. Indeed, Goodley frames these questions as being fundamentally about ‘community, independence and desire,’ and not disability per se (p.116). The key to understanding disability’s simultaneous presence (in the title) and absence (in the primary topics of concern) is that, for Goodley, disability is ‘the phenomenon to think again about these very human qualities’ (p.116, emphasis in original). The title, then, is a misnomer: this is not a book about disability and other human questions, it is a book that asserts that disability is the key to answering human questions.
That Sinking Feeling: People with Disabilities in Hospital Wards
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This study examined the experiences of people with disabilities in general hospitals. Specifically, we identified and analysed the barriers and difficulties that people with disabilities face while hospitalised. Using qualitative methods, our findings were based on a combination of in-depth interviews and a focus group with twenty inpatients in total. Three major barriers to proper care arose from the transcripts: inaccessibility, practitioners’ lack of medical knowledge, and negative stereotypes. While some of the findings reinforce existing knowledge about barriers faced by people with disabilities, some address barriers that have not yet been investigated with qualitative instruments, such as lack of specific medical knowledge. In addition, the findings suggest the need to refer separately to physical and service accessibility, the latter including human service and communication. Practical recommendations include the need to upgrade healthcare accessibility regulations and ways to help people with disabilities receive equal health services during hospitalisation.
Nothing About Us Without … Who? Disability Rights Organisations, Representation and Collaborative…
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When governments invite disability rights organisations to policy deliberations, how does the slogan ‘nothing about us without us’ translate into practice? This article draws upon a study about local disability organisations and their relationship to a regional consultative citizens’ council on disability issues in Sweden. Interviews were conducted with organisations that had seats on the council, politicians and officials on the council, as well as with disability organisations without seats on the council. Results show that conceptualisations of ‘disability’ in policies that regulate deliberations not only define what type of organisations are eligible for appointment to the council, but also influence how disability organisations identify, present themselves and what issues they advocate for – leading to divisions among organisations. The findings have implications for collaborative governance structures and disability rights organisations elsewhere – problematising issues around representation, institutionalisation of inclusion and the constantly evolving concept of what counts as ‘disability’.
'We don’t read print': Blind voters say new accessible ballot measures fall short
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Blind New York voters have a new accessible absentee ballot option this year. But some of the voters say the ballots come with o