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General Information Children's Books That Address Disability

GENERAL INFORMATION'
Appropriate Terms to Use http://www.nda.ie/cntmgmtnew.nsf/0/2294F7824465D7C580256C7B005A4986?OpenDocument

Watch Your Language [National Center on Workforce and Disability (NCWD)] http://www.onestops.info/article.php?article_id=14

Language [Office for Disability Issues] http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/inclusive-communications/representation/language.php

Disability Etiquette [National Disability Rights Network] http://www.ndrn.org/en/media/disability-etiquette.html

Showing Respect by Being Direct http://www.miusa.org/resource/tipsheet/respect With links to two additional documents:

Disability Etiquette [United Spinal Association] (PDF)

http://www.miusa.org/sites/default/files/documents/resource/DisabilityEtiquette.pdf

National Youth Leadership Network Respectful Disability Language: Here’s What’s Up! (PDF) http://www.miusa.org/sites/default/files/documents/resource/Respectful%20Disability%20Language.pdf [|Tips for Positive Communication with Students (and Others) with Disabilities] www.linfield.edu/learning-support/faculty-resources/communication-tips.html

[|Explaining Learning Disabilities to Your Child] by Rick Lavoie www.ldonline.org/lavoie/Explaining_Learning_Disabilities_to_Your_Child

[|Kids’ Quest on Disability and Health] www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/kids/default.htm This site, by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD), has WebQuest activities that were designed for students in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, but as they point out, “Parents and teachers can modify the materials to meet students' learning styles and levels.” They help answer questions that children – and adults – often have about people with disabilities.

-- Customer Service -- (and general awareness) At Your Service: Welcoming Customers with Disabilities http://www.wiawebcourse.org/ "Project of the ADA National Network on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)". This is a free, self-paced webcourse. There is no charge, but you need to register.

Tips on Serving Customers with Disabilities (pdf) by Accessible Ontario [20 pages] http://www.alcdsb.on.ca/aboutus/pdf/accessibility/accessibilitytipbooklet.pdf

Improving Customer Service for People with Disabilities [YouTube 8:03] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViraivX2o2k (Not all of the people learning comments agree with the ideas.)

Reaching Out to Customers with Disabilities http://www.ada.gov/reachingout/intro1.htm This is a 10 part course Note the address is www.ada.gov, but it has not been updates since 2005

ADA Business BRIEF: Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Hospital Settings http://www.ada.gov/reachingout/hospcombr(lesson2).html

Accessible Customer Service Plan: Providing Goods and Services to People with Disabilities (pdf) http://www.momentis.net/pdfs/AccessibleCustomerServicePlan.pdf This is one company's plan (Momentis)

Disability Etiquette http://scvrd.net/employability/etiquette.php

FROM NICHCY Disability Awareness http://nichcy.org/families-community/awareness

Ever wondered what it’s like to have a disability? A site for young people, courtesy of the Center for Disability Information & Referral (CeDIR). http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/kidsweb/default.html

Kids on the Block. The Kids on the Block has developed over 40 different programs addressing various disabilities, educational and medical differences, and social concerns. Each topic is thoroughly researched and field-tested before it becomes available to schools, community service organizations, hospitals, and special interest groups. A complete curriculum accompanies each topic area, including scripts, answers to questions children ask, background information on the topic, character biographies, resource materials, follow-up information, and continued support from the KOB National Office. http://www.kotb.com/

More materials for schools. “Building Disability Awareness and Inclusion” is a webpage listing materials for schools, courtesy of the Kern County SELPA. http://kcsos.kern.org/SpecialEd/stories/storyReader$263

Disability History Museum. The Disability History Museum’s Library is a digital archive that only exists online. It contains digital versions of images, texts, and other artifacts related to disability history that have been gathered from libraries and private collections across the country. Materials in the Library date back to the 18th century and represent all disability categories across the life span. The goal is to create a theme-based, searchable collection of primary source materials that will help expand knowledge and understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities in the United States. http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/

Access and Opportunities: A Guide to Disability Awareness. The VSA arts’ Disability Awareness Guide is an informational tool for those who want to gain additional knowledge about disability and tips for social etiquette and positive interactions. The guide is a starting point for readers to increase their basic knowledge, initiate discussion, and clarify myths and facts about people with disabilities. It is a tool that will start readers on their way to a better understanding of disability issues and the disability community as a whole. http://www.vsavt.org/media/vsavt-disability-awareness-guide.pdf

Medical problems…from the perspective of the children who have them. Bandaids and Blackboards is a website designed to help people understand what it’s like to grow up with a medical problem, from the perspective of the children and teens who are doing just that. These young people have become experts at coping with problems that most of us have never heard of. They’d like you to know how they do it, and they hope that you’ll be glad you came to visit. http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/

Cromwell Center for Disability Awareness. http://www.cromwellcenter.org/disabilities_awareness.htm The core of the Center’s work is disability awareness education.

Council for Disability Awareness. The CDA is a nonprofit organization committed to informing and educating the American public about the widespread and growing frequency of disability, and the financial impact it can have. A large part of its mission is providing helpful resources and information to wage earners, their families, the media, employers, and anyone concerned about disability and the impact it can have on the finances and lifestyle of American families. http://www.disabilitycanhappen.org/default.asp

A video collection. According to Disabled World, disability awareness means educating people regarding disabilities as the biggest barriers people with disabilities encounter are other people. Disability etiquette are guidelines dealing specifically with how to approach people with disabilities. The informative videos at Disabled World help teach and make people aware of disability issues and persons with disabilities in society http://videos.disabled-world.com/category/disability-awareness

Videos at YouTube. Visit YouTube.com, search using the phrase “disability awareness,” and you’ll find many a video on this subject. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Disability+Awareness&search_type=&aq=f

SEARCH for more .... Disability etiquette

Materials on Disability Etiquette Tips on interacting with people who have disabilities. From the United Spinal Association, this series of resource pages covers the basics, gives terminology tips, and includes closer looks at etiquette for interaction with people who have a range of different disabilities. http://www.unitedspinal.org/disability-etiquette/

Disability etiquette brochure. Much more than a brochure, this publication gives tips on interacting with people across a diversity of disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs and those with cognitive impairments, speech difficulties, deafness or hearing impairments, visual impairments, or blindness. You’ll also find etiquette tips about service animals, appropriate language, talking about disabilities, and common courtesies. http://www.tndisability.org/about_coalition/publications/disability_etiquette

Etiquette, according to Easter Seals. http://www.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ntl_etiquette

From the FCC. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/504/disability_primer_4.html

From the Office of Compliance and Equity Management. http://www.uni.edu/equity/disability-etiquette

Accommodation and Compliance Series: Disability Etiquette Tips For Speaking Engagements. From JAN, the Job Accommodation Network. http://askjan.org/media/etipresent.html

World Facts and Statistics on Disabilities and Disability Issues http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/statistics/

HANDICAP International http://www.hiproweb.org/fileadmin/cdroms/Handicap_Developpement/www/index_en.html

Tips for Positive Communication with Students with Disabilities http://www.ighome.com/?t=240882

CHILDREN'S BOOKS THAT ADDRESS DISABILITY
Evaluating Children’s Books that Address Disability http://archive.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/fall_2005/fall_2005_sb_disability.html

Nine Ways to Evaluate Children's Books that Address Disability http://www.catherineshafer.com/dislit.html Note that the original source for this article, Circle of Inclusion, apparently no longer exists

Nine Ways to Evaluate Children's Books that Address Disability as Part of Diversity http://www.libraryweb.org/images/NineWays.pdf

Analyzing and Selecting Children's Picture Books that Feature Blind Characters https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr29/3/fr290301.htm ---

Here is my response to a student, Liz B, who told me about a a character in the program GLEE and how her sister referred to her as 'handicapable'. It gives some idea of my own experience with this topic - SWQ

"Thank you for the note. I don’t watch the show, but I am surprised I hadn’t heard about a popular show with a ‘handicapable’ character. (I agree, that is a good word!) The area of disability awareness is fascinating to me, probably because I have lived through major social changes about how the public views people with disabilities. When I was in high school in the early 1970’s, I worked at a camp held by the “Loudoun Association for Retarded Children” each summer where we had students with a wide range of disabilities – and abilities. We went out in public pretty much every day and it was fascinating to observe people’s reaction to a busload of people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities doing regular things like swimming, bowling, or whatever. It was still pretty rare in the early 1970s. I don’t remember when I first saw someone on TV or in a movie with a disability who wasn’t portrayed in a negative, pitiful, or over-the-top stereotypical way. I just looked through my own list for disability awareness and I see I haven’t updated it in quite a while. I just did a quick search and it looks like there are a large number of sites, including some that seem to be attempting to teach people in the publishing and TV industries about how to portray people with disabilities (and a lot of that seems to be the use of language and how to use “people first” language, even though I haven’t seen that phrase used when quickly scanning over these sites.) One site that drew my attention was from the National Center on Disability & Journalism – which, by the way, is fascinating that a group like this exists. I bet they weren’t around in the 1970’s! (Okay. I had to look at their History page. They were founded in 1998!) Anyway, two things about their Sizing Up Disability in the Media page [] struck me. First, I didn’t see the disability on the woman in the first picture. I had to read the paragraph under it. (You’ll see why it may not be the first thing someone notices when they go to the page!) The other thing is that they do talk about various characters in the program GLEE! (about a third of the way down, in the paragraph starting, ‘The next industry that should pick up cues Is Hollywood.” ...

Thank you for the vocabulary, too. The word handicapable reminds me of the spelling of the word disAbility that I sometimes see, where someone capitalizes the A on purpose. Maybe handiCapable should also be spelled like that! Thank you again! SusanQ