Disability Awareness Month: Learn More

"Weekly podcast about mental health, wellbeing and disabled people."

ALLY stands for:
Acknowledge and respect individual experiences and abilities.
Learn about different disability types.
Leverage your influence to promote accessibility and inclusion.
Yield the floor to people with disabilities to help identify and eliminate barriers.

"The Disability History Project is a community history project and we welcome your participation. This is an opportunity for disabled people to reclaim disability history and determine how to define ourselves and our struggles. People with disabilities have an exciting and rich history that should be shared with the world."

"The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture."

"Health equity is achieved when everyone has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Health inequities are reflected in differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment. The Division of Human Development and Disability (DHDD) works to promote health and reduce health inequities for people with disabilities of all ages, so they can participate fully in all aspects of their communities throughout their lives and have the opportunity to achieve all they set out to do."

"Welcome to POWER NOT PITY, where we explore the lives of disabled people of color everywhere! Through storytelling, commentary and analysis, the podcast aims to amplify the lived experiences and perspectives of disabled people. In an effort to break down the systemic barriers that keep disabled people of color silenced, this show serves as a vehicle to dismantle ableism with grace, humor and downright determination. So... “What’s your disabled power?"

“Disability Awareness Month gives us the opportunity to lift up the voices of those living with disabilities and share their many unique lived experiences. In recognition of this month, we dedicate our newest collection to the stories of these individuals, and their loved ones who offer their support and admiration.”

"Xceptional Leaders focuses on entrepreneurs and service providers who are dedicated to helping people with disabilities. Guests range from teachers and authors to fashion designers and filmmakers."

The Disability Visibility Project is an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture.

Office of Disability Employment Policy

Neurodiversity refers to the idea that neurological differences, such as those seen in autism or ADHD, reflect normal variations in brain development.

"Providing programs and materials to support neurodivergent school students in developing life skills and succeeding with their studies."

"Materials to support neurodivergent primary school students."

2023 Guardian article by Sean Harris

"Disability Rights Movement." In Gale U.S. History Online Collection. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: U.S. History (accessed October 5, 2024).

https://link-gale-com.spenceschool.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CP3208520037/GPS?u=nysl_me_spncschl&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=6fff2c0e

"Neurodiversity." (April 24, 2021). Quoted in Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2024. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (accessed October 5, 2024).