Disability Social History Project:

An American site with information on the struggle for the development of disabled peoples rights in the USA

http://www.disabilityhistory.org

Disabled people who have made a difference

Contents: Includes 45 A4 paper copies of Name, Dates, Picture(s) and a short explanation of their contribution. These are but a small sample of the millions of disabled people who have contributed to human history and development. This introduction can be used to initiate a discussion on one or several of them. They can be grouped by when lived, what they did, gender or ethnicity or displayed as a talking point.

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Disabling Imagery (2004)

by Richard Rieser

Contents: A teachers guide packed full of ideas for examining how disability has been portrayed in moving images of cinema and TV. Lots of lesson ideas. A DVD with 22 film clips included. From British Film Institute or Worldof inclusion.com  £25. DVD on its own £10.

Online text: www.bfi.org.uk/disablingimagery

[Or click here for full PDF version] 

Down Under Mystery Tour

Down Under Mystery Tour is a unique comedy film starring and co-written by three men with intellectual disabilities.

The film was conceived as part of director/producer Michael Noonan’s PhD about disability and comedy, which sought to explore the complex line between ‘laughing at’ and ‘with’ and demonstrate that meaningful and constructive creative collaboration between intellectually-disabled and non-disabled people is possible.

see - http://www.downundermysterytour.com/



Oor Mad History

A community history project in Edinburgh and the Lothians, Scotland run by volunteers who are or have been involved in collective advocacy in the Lothians...  They celebrate the achievements of the mental health service user movement in the Lothians and preserve their history. How do we do it? > recording oral history interviews with activists and allies – the interviewers are volunteers who use or who have used mental health services and > creating and organising an archive of written material such as reports and posters, and other objects... to find out more see their website:
http://oormadhistory.blogspot.com/p/what-is-oor-mad-history.html

Out to Access - Equality Network

Are you disabled and LGBT? Do you know people who are? The Scottish Government is funding the Equality Network to do some work on the intersections of gender identity and sexual orientation with disability.

http://www.equality-network.org/outaccess

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Equality-Network/104157266288275

President Obama & Sec. Clinton Speak on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities

Youtube.com video

On the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the President and Secretary of State laud the signing of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Proclamation. July 24, 2009.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1qmAGEIAs4

Resistance

DVD written and directed by Liz Crow
at Roaring Girl Productions

It shows a film about the killing centres in Germany during the Holocuast, and "conversation between three of the actors about; the process of making 'resistance; making the film; and what it means for them as disabled people today."

It is in English / Audio descriptions / Captioning / BSL interpretation

For more information visit www.roaring-girl.com

The Encyclopedia of American Disability History

A 3 Volume Set Authored by: Susan Burch, Ph.D.; Foreword by Paul K. Longmore, Ph.D.

http://www.infobasepublishing.com/Bookdetail.aspx?ISBN=081607030X&p=&ebo

The Social Model of Disability

-What is the Social Model of Disability?
-How does the Social Model of Disability apply to learning differences in higher education?
-What is The Way Forward?

LEARN ABOUT THE SOCIAL MODEL ON THIS WEBSITE - http://brainhe.com/TheSocialModelofDisabilityText.html#history