Showing posts with label disability law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disability law. Show all posts

Friday, January 15, 2010

DisAbility Culture: Writing, Music, Design, History and People






 Study of News Coverage of Disability Issues






Disability & Media Alliance Project:    Promoting accurate representation of PWD and working to eliminate disability stereotypes and misinformation in news, television, films, and other media




Inspiring 'overcomer' stories are newsroom cliches




A chronology of the disability rights movements







Disability's Social History - heroes links




Person-First Language and Autism Neurodiversity and the Prejudice of Politically Correct Terminology



My Mind is a Web Browser: How People with Autism Think




The Invisible Disabilities Advocate (IDA) - count us in!








What is Disability Culture?



What is disability culture?: a classic analysis of the disability movement - by Paul Longmore




National Arts and Disability Center

Artists with Disabilities Oral History Project










Vancouver 2010 Paralympics




Outdoor recreation resources for people with disabilities





Crossing the Barriers (CTB): Improving Access to Montana's Outdoor Recreation





The online connection for amps with an active lifestyle





When you can't do the sport you loved




Tri It Your Way is for anyone of any ability level who wants to complete a triathlon



Service animals and their people






Disability Culture Watch blog





The arts inviting PWDs






DAWN: Disabilities Awareness Webring Network






Mark O'Brien's page: he's featured in the film Breathing Lessons







Stephen Drake's work with Not Dead Yet



Bryan Goodwin 'rolls to his own drummer'





Greg Smith: the Strength Coach






Institutionalization remembered







Laura Hershey: Writer, Poet, Activist, Consultant --
News, Views, Musings, and Issues







uppity disability dot net: Disability culture, politics and art, since 1995

Monday, January 11, 2010

Housing and Adaptive Environments

Universal Design and accessibility



Center for Inclusive Design & Environmental Access: IDeA


Center for Universal Design: Environments and Products for all People



Updated housing links from the DRM Guide




National Association of Home Builders sees the light




Resources about the Community Choice Act formerly called MiCASSA



Resources about the Garrett decision on our freedom to live in the community





Your home; not the nursing home!





Home Instead Senior Care Foundation





Medicare's ratings of nursing homes in your area





Long-standing alternatives to nursing homes




Every new home visitable



Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum exhibition 'Unlimited by Design'




Updated housing links from the DRM Guide





Housing advocacy for the disability community




Institute for Human Centered Design



MCIL - ramps for home accessibility



Home Controls (Automation for networking your home)

Family and Sexuality Links

The Beach Center on Families and Disability



Beach Center on Disability



National FindFamily Registry -- to reconnect with family members who have been lost to institutions





Parenting with a Disability



Forums and chats for parents with disabilities



Parents with Disabilities: DRM's Listings



DRM's Sexuality Listings



Homosexuality, Bisexuality and Disability: DRM's Listings

Friday, January 8, 2010

Advocacy and Politics; includes useful government links

Your home -- not a nursing home!




Home- and community-based services links for Montana





Disability Resources: Montana Vocational Rehabilitation's pages on disability services and resources available to Montanans




Contacting your representative in Helena -- and other state legislative news



Missoula Aging Services: useful links for all of us



Bazelon Center's analysis of the ADA's strengths and how it is now being challenged in the courts



Thinking about the Labor Day Telethon



Families USA : working to ensure health care for all



Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund




Disaboom:  Information and resources for people with disabilities



Official site of the U.S. Access Board



Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page



The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement



Contemporary Independent Living - article by Josie Byzek



Register to Vote Online or in Person




Congress at Your Fingertips



UCP's Advocacy Connection and Tools



Not Dead Yet and ADAPT disability advocates fight the 'right to die' movement



Disability Rights Advocates



David Ferleger's Disability Links




Lubin's disABILITY Information and Resources (a *treasure trove* of links



Disability Identity Politics




Disability Rights Montana, formerly Montana Advocacy Program - MAP




Summit Independent Living Center, for PWDs in Western Montana



Women with Disabilities.gov



Rural Institute on Disabilities at the University of Montana



MSU's Montana Center on Disabilities



State of Montana programs for people with disabilities



Montana Medicaid



Montana League of Women Voters site: Let your will be known on state and local issues