Additional Resources and Links
Law and Public Policy
ADA Home Page
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm
Information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
“[A] national law and policy center dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of people with disabilities through legislation, litigation, advocacy, technical assistance, and education and training of attorneys, advocates, persons with disabilities, and parents of children with disabilities.”
Disability Studies
http://www.disabilityresources.org/DIS-STUDIES.html
“The emerging field of disability studies encompasses a broad range of academic, humanitarian and social disciplines. General web sites for and about the study of disability are followed by specific university programs.” Also includes links for disability culture and disability history.
Genetic Discrimination
http://www.genome.gov/10002077
Policy and legislation on the use of genetic information in terms of potential discrimination from the National Human Genome Research Institute.
“From Principles to Practice”; An International Disability Law and Policy Symposium, Oct. 22-26, 2000
http://www.dredf.org/international/papers.html
Paper given at the symposium and available online.
Arts and Culture
AXIS Dance Company
“Since 1987, AXIS Dance Company has created an exciting body of work developed by dancers with and without disabilities. They are in the forefront of paving the way for a powerful and inclusive dance form, ‘physically integrated dance.’”
National Theatre of the Deaf
“Through its thirty-four year history, The National Theatre of the Deaf stands as testimony to the artistry and capability of its Actors. There have been 64 national tours, performances in all 50 states, all the continents, 31 international tours and over 8,000 performances earning NTD its place in theatrical history as the oldest continually-producing touring theatre company in the United States. Discover The National Theatre of the Deaf's highly visual performances . Through NTD's signature style of visual language, American Sign Language, the audience enjoys a greater appreciation that no other theatre company can approach. Through its art, the NTD has created profound social change. The magic of it all has been The National Theatre of the Deaf's remarkable ability to entertain and inform at the same time. As one critic has praised, ‘sculpture in the air.’”
Seeing With Photography Collective
http://www.seeingwithphotography.com
“SEEING WITH PHOTOGRAPY COLLECTIVE is a New York based group, our work is a collaboration between visually impaired and sighted photographers.” See link to “Shooting Blind,” among others.
Society for Disability Studies
Scholarly organization which studies issues of disability and chronic illness from a social and cultural model of disability, promoting disability as a field of study, a mode of social activism and a source of art.
Homer Avila
http://www.danceinsider.com/f2004/f0427_1.html
Homer Avila (1955-2004) was an extraordinary dancer who continued to perform in a unique choreography following the amputation of his right leg and hip to cancer.
See the video performance of "Without Words" at http://channel.creative-capital.org/webcast_detail_67.html
Social Histories and Education
Beyond Affliction: The Disability History Project
“[A] four hour documentary radio series about the shared experience of people with disabilities and their families since the beginning of the 19th century. This web site includes excerpts from the shows as well as many of the primary source documents—extended interviews, images, and texts—from which the on-air programs were developed.”
Deaf Resource Library
“The Deaf Resource Library is a virtual library—an online collection of reference material and links intended to educate and inform people about Deaf cultures in Japan and the United States, as well as deaf and hard of hearing related topics.”
The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movment
http://www.bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/drilm/
An online collection of important primary sources--including oral histories--at the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
Disability Social History Project
http://www.disabilityhistory.org/
“Disability is not a ‘brave struggle’ or ‘courage in the fact of adversity’....disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.” Neil Marcus, 1993.
Disability Studies for Teachers
http://www.disabilitystudiesforteachers.org/
“[L]esson plans and materials designed to help teachers integrate disability studies into social studies, history, literature, and related subjects in grades 6-12.”
Teaching Students With Disabilities
http://dsp.berkeley.edu/TeachStudentsWithDisab.html
Teaching Students with Disabilities, hosted at UC Berkeley, contains specific suggestions for teaching students with disabilities, including learning disabilities, chronic illness, ADHD, deafness, mobility impairments, and visual disabilities. This information will be of interest both to faculty members and to students with disabilities.
Disability World Web-zine
http://www.disabilityworld.org/
A bi-monthly web-zine of international disability news and views.
History Through Deaf Eyes Developed by Gallaudet University
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/deafeyes/
History Through Deaf Eyes is a traveling social history exhibition aligning nearly 200 years of United States history with the experiences of deaf people: “They are facing not a theory but a condition, for they are first, last, and all the time the people of the eye.” George Veditz, President, National Association of the Deaf, 1913. “We have been called deaf-mutes, mutes, objects of charity, deaf and dumb, semi-mutes, dummy, and now, hearing impaired. We have been described as ‘the most misunderstood among the sons of man.’ Some of us are deaf and some of us are Deaf. Some of us use American Sign Language and some of us do not. This exhibition is our untold and largely unknown history. It is American history…Through Deaf Eyes.” –Jack R. Gannon, Curator
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History: The Disability Rights Movement
http://americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights/welcome.html
A virtual exhibit of the disability rights movement; includes discussion of the movement, dissent, self-definition, etc.
US Holocaust Museum: The Murder of the Handicapped
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/euthan.htm
“‘Wartime,’ Adolf Hitler suggested, ‘was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill.’ Many Germans did not want to be reminded of individuals who did not measure up to their concept of a ‘master race.’ The physically and mentally handicapped were viewed as ‘useless’ to society, a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life. At the beginning of World War II, individuals who were mentally retarded, physically handicapped, or mentally ill were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the ‘T-4,’ or ‘euthanasia,’ program.”
Beyond Affliction: The Overdue Revolution
http://www.npr.org/programs/disability/ba_shows.dir/revoluti.dir/revolu0ti.html
"After generations of being spoken to,
spoken for, and spoken about
by the able-bodied, people with disabilities. . .organized and
protested against a system that offered them benefits but denied
basic civil rights."
