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Disability History Awareness Month Resources

Below is a collection of resources shared by OSPI:

Disability History Awareness Month

Disability History and Awareness Month (RCW 28A.230.158) takes place during October to increase awareness, respect, and acceptance for people with disabilities, and to bring a greater sense of pride to people with disabilities. People with disabilities created most of the resources included below. OSPI的优先顺序与学区提供资源的目标相参照, administrators, and people with disabilities can use as they relate to the priority areas.

This is a list of external resources not produced by OSPI. Please review each resource to ensure it fits your needs. Some resources share stories; some of which may have content considered sensitive.

Growth Mindset – Pride
在词典中,骄傲被描述为“对自己所做的或属于自己的事情感到高兴或满足,或者认为这反映了自己的信誉。.” Pride can be found in many places, including in movements such as the Disability Rights Movement, and in self-advocacy, and it shows up in many of the categories below.

  • NCIL Disability Pride Toolkit -独立生活模式显示了医学模式和独立生活模式之间的区别, as well as testimonials from youth with Disability Pride, and other helpful resources on Pride.

Leadership – Self-Advocacy

自我辩护是一种人们拥有的权利,这样他们就可以为自己的权利说话,做出影响自己生活的决定——受影响的人应该是重要的贡献者. “Nothing About Us Without Us” became the slogan for the Disability Rights Movement, which embodies the idea of self-advocacy.

  • ASAN -自闭症自我倡导网络是一个由自闭症患者运营并为他们服务的非营利性组织, and advocates for topics important to people with autism and other disabilities.
  • PAVE Youth – Partnerships for Action, Voices for Empowerment has a specific section for youth, offering videos and articles on disability pride, leadership, and other useful resources and links.
  • NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Illness offers resources on mental health, with an emphasis on education and advocacy. 这些选项卡包含概述、治疗方法、支持和线程,可以在上面进行共享和交流.
  • ACT “一起倡导改变”计划和培训材料的目标是解决三个方面:赋予个人权力, connect them to the disability rights movement, and work together to build stronger communities.
  • SABE Self Advocates Becoming Empowered是美国一个全国性的自我倡导组织,其使命是“确保残疾人受到平等对待,并获得同样的决定权”, choices, rights, responsibilities, and chances to speak up to empower themselves; opportunities to make new friends, and to learn from their mistakes.”


Evidence-Based Practices, Professional Development
The following resources include experiences presented by people with disabilities, both by professionals talking about their disabilities, or on personal blogs. Many talk about how their disability has impacted their professional lives, 一些人谈到他们如何倡导变革,以便更好地将残疾人融入他们的领域.

  • Disability Visibility Project – In addition to blog posts written by Alice Wong and guest blog writers, 该播客对几个不同行业的残疾人进行了简短的采访, as well as experiences in other walks of life, such as parents with disabilities. Some may bring up sensitive topics, content, or language.
  • Rooted in Rights -根植人权组织在其“讲故事者系列”中有几个视频,旨在增加对残疾人的真实再现, cultivate emerging creators and activists, and promote accessible social video as a form of activism.“根植于权利”也有一个博客,有几个不同的作者和主题,以及一个
    podcast 关于残疾父母谈论他们的生活,作为父母和他们的童年.
  • Autistic Hoya – A blog by Lydia X. Z. Brown, a nonbinary disability justice advocate, organizer, and writer with autism. There is also a tab for ableist terms and language. 请注意免责声明,列表上的一些词将被认为是不合适的.
  • My Diversability – The three pillars of Diversability are connect, showcase, and empower. Diversability还提供了一个系列,残疾人在Instagram上发布照片和他们的故事. “People with disabilities are more than just ‘people with disabilities.’ We are entrepreneurs, executives, whatever we want to be. We are people with diverse abilities.”


Resource Allocation – History
历史有助于了解一个社区曾经在哪里以及发生过的重大事件. 残疾人的历史涵盖了美国最大的少数民族,以及引发残疾人权利运动的斗争. A few current news sites have also been included.

  • Advocacy Monitor – “The Advocacy Monitor is a project of the National Council on Independent Living, a leading cross-disability, 代表独立生活中心(CILs)的由残疾人经营和为残疾人服务的草根组织, Statewide Independent Living Councils (SILCs), individuals with disabilities, 以及其他倡导美国各地残疾人人权和公民权利的组织.”
  • Disability Scoop -有关残障人士和影响社区的事件的新闻来源.
  • Disability in the News by Do-It UW – Compiled news articles, mostly from Google Alerts, that covers news on disability for Do-It with University of Washington. Updates weekly.
  • National Park Services: Disability History – A series of seven articles about Disability History in America. The articles include Early and Shifting Attitudes of Treatment, Educational Reform, Military and Disability, Presidents and Disability, the Disability Rights Movement, and the National Park Service and Accessibility.
  • Disability Rights History Timeline -根据残疾人权利领域发生的重大事件以及导致这一事件的原因,按年编制时间表. From 1817 to 2005.
  • NCLD Youth Timeline – Offers a look at the history of people with disabilities. The timeline starts in 1770 and continues through 2006. The website version of the timeline is interactive; a PDF version is also available.


Allyship and Intersectionality
交叉性是对社区内不同身份重叠的承认. A person could face oppressions such as having a disability, being from the LGBTQ+ community, being a person of color, or others.

Allyship is those without disabilities assisting those with disabilities. Allies offer support and can help amplify the voices of people with disabilities. They can also help others without disabilities understand why equity is important.

  • Be An Ally – A list of how to be a good ally such as actively listening, practicing accountability, supporting identities and communities, taking actions, and more.
  • The Dos and Don’ts of Disability -一段有关残障人士如何提供帮助的视频,以及在采取行动之前询问他人是否需要帮助的重要性.
  • Curriculum for Self-Advocates – While it’s listed as being for self-advocates, there is great value in giving it to someone in an ally role. It explains how people with disabilities feel, the effects of certain stereotypes, and how best to assist someone with a disability. It deals almost exclusively with autism.
  • 10 Ways to be a Good Ally to Disabled People – A list, written by a person with a disability, about how people without disabilities can be a good ally.
  • Accessibility is Cool – How to create accessible media, mostly videos. 包括如何制作文本,为什么描述视频很重要,所有文本等等.
  • Do-It Resource List - Do-It为K-12教育工作者编制了一份资源清单,包括视频和出版物.
  • Crip Queer Pride -一段关于LGBTQ+社区中一名残疾人士的视频,以及他们对身份重叠的看法.
  • All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism – An anthology of poetry, essays, short fiction, photography, paintings, and drawings by people of color with autism.
  • Celebrating my LGBTQ Pride Helped Me Find Disability Pride -一篇来自LGBTQ+社区的博客文章,讲述了一个身份的骄傲如何导致另一个身份的骄傲.
  • Ramp Your Voice: Black, Disabled, and Proud – Ramp Your Voice! has several categories, but this category is specifically about intersectionality. There are several articles written by Vilissa Thompson, LMSW, the woman who runs the website, as well as interviews with other people with disabilities.

Media
Media often lacks representation for people with disabilities. Below are lists of novels and publications with characters with disabilities, many written by authors with disabilities, 以及一些围绕残疾人及其经历的视频.

  • Children’s Books: Portrayals of People with Disabilities ——残疾儿童图书目录. 每个包括标题,作者,简短的简介,并推荐每本书的年级水平.
  • Ombuds Book Resource Guide - Ombuds提供了一个最新的关于残疾人物的儿童书籍清单. Each has a title, author, year published, summary, disability, and which resource they highlight in the Ombuds’ lesson plan. The list is sorted by recommended grade level.
  • Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and Disabled People
    Destroy Fantasy
    – A collection of essays, short stories, 残障作家的诗歌为残障读者提供了声音和视野,而残障读者在科幻小说和奇幻文学中缺乏代表性. The essays offer questions in the representation of people with disabilities, pointing out flaws in novels, shows, 和电影,同时突出那些影响和激发他们对这些类型的热爱的作品. Uncanny在他们的网站上提供一些免费内容,并在每个页面的顶部提供内容警告. 请注意,在某些内容中会提到敏感话题,您应该检查以确保每一篇文章都符合您的需求.
  • Ted Talks: I am Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much – Stella Young talks about turning people with disabilities into an inspiration, and how living with a disability doesn’t need to be seen as inspirational.
  • Rooted in Rights documentaries -《正规的棋牌平台排行榜》有关于残疾人面临的问题的迷你纪录片, such as plans for natural disasters, reentry for inmates with disabilities, and sub-minimum wage.

Lesson Plans

  • Ombuds’ One out of Five: Disability History and Pride Project is a lesson plan written for middle school age students to celebrate the history, identities, and diversity of people with disabilities. 这个项目主要围绕残障儿童及其生活的影像展开.
  • Disability Rights Washington offers a lesson plan called Portrait of the Whole Person 它是为小学生设计的,向他们介绍残疾人权利如何融入更大的民权运动.