Subject: Disabilities

Making Disability Modern
Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes […]
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Disability Visibility
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and […]
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Affirming Disability
Providing both a theoretical framework and practical strategies, this resource will help teachers, counselors, and related service providers develop understanding and empathy to improve outcomes […]
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Life After Deaf
From a renowned media critic to a man with sudden and full hearing loss, Noel Holston ran the gauntlet of diagnoses, health insurance, and cochlear […]
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Traveling with service animals: by air, road, rail, and ship across North America
The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people […]
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From the periphery: real-life stories of disability
From the Periphery consists of nearly forty first-person narratives from activists and everyday people who describe what it’s like to be treated differently by society because of […]
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About us: essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in […]
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An invincible spirit: the story of Don Fulk
Profoundly deafened as an infant, Don Fulk didn’t learn his name or go to school until the age of ten. At the age of 18 […]
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Between two worlds: my life as a child of deaf adults
In his memoir, David Sorensen explores his identity as a coda, or a child of Deaf adults. He describes his experiences with the roles often […]
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