Digital Display: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 3rd is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This is a day that promotes the understanding of disabilities and disability issues, and brings awareness and support to the people in our communities with disabilities, and their well-being, rights and dignity. To celebrate this day, MacEwan Library has compiled a number of resources to watch or read that will teach you more about this vibrant community.
To Read:
Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson
Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers by Jessica Schomberg and Wendy Highby
Careers for People with Disabilities: Special Opportunities if you are Deaf, Hard of Hearing: Using Today's Technology you can Succeed in any Mainstream Profession by the Institute for Career Research
Case Studies in Transition and Employment for Students and Adults with Disabilities by Keith Storey
Disability Is Not Inability: A Quest for Inclusion and Participation of People with Disability in Society by Nathaniel Amanze and S. Nkhoma
Disability Studies: Educating for Inclusion by Tim Corcoran, Julie White and Ben Whitburn
Disability, the Media and the Paralympic Games by Carolyn Jackson-Brown
Efficacy of Assistive Technology Interventions by Dave Edyburn
Making Computers Accessible: Disability Rights and Digital Technology by Elizabeth R. Petrick
More than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost
Physical Education for Young People with Disabilities: A Handbook of Practical Ideas Created by Practitioners for Practitioners by Rebecca Foster and Lerverne Barber
Playing on an Uneven Field: Essays on Exclusion and Inclusion in Sports by Yuya Kiuchi
Swimming Against the Tide: True Story of Para Swimmer Madhavi Latha by Madhavi Latha Prathigudupu
The Inclusive Management Strategy: Engineering Culture Change for Employees with DisAbilities by Camelia M. Fawzy and Brenda Shore
The Power of Disability: 10 Lessons for Surviving, Thriving, and Changing the World by Al Etmanski
The Way to Work: How to Facilitate Work Experiences for Youth in Transition by Richard Luecking
Uncanny Bodies: Superhero Comics and Disability by Scott T. Smith and José Alaniz
To Watch:
Autistic Hockey Lessons from Coach Joe
Paralympian Lora Webster Champions Adaptive Sports