Resources for Disabled Students

Websites - Awareness

The following websites hopefully provide information to expand awareness of the issues that affect people with disabilities.  Videos are on YouTube and the other links are websites.  These resources may not be 100% accessible since they have been created by others for general consumption.

Learn about Polio

Learn about the Suit Case Project and those who were once institutionalized.

Learn about the World Institute on Disability and Ed Roberts, one of the founders of Independent Living

Learn about the History of the Disability Rights Movement

See a video on the Protests for 504 Regulations 

 See videos about Attitudes and Attitudes 2

 See a short video about dancing on crutches CrutchMaster

Aimee Mullins, model and athlete, gives her take on Personal Power and Prosthetics

See an introduction to the Voices of Our Region project

Read or listen to actual interviews conducted through Voices of Our Region website

 

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