Resources on Disability: Home
Resources to generate conversation about disability awareness.
About this Guide
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
Blogs/New - Selected Sources
Council on Disability Awareness (CDA)
Email: cda@uiowa.edu
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Disability in the Modern World
Offense Taken: A Community Responds to the "R" Word - In the Spring of 2007, when a Minneapolis Theater company put on a show titled 'Rise of the Celebretards,' people with disabilities and their allies took action. (2008, Sproutflix)
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This film, as well as hundreds of others, are available from Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement. Access through the University of Iowa Libraries.
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Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement This link opens in a new windowAt completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video. Content draws from the disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
Janalyn Moss
Disability in the Modern World
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Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement This link opens in a new windowAt completion, Disability in the Modern World will include 150,000 pages of primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video. Content draws from the disciplines of disability history and disability studies, but also history, media, the arts, political science, education, and other areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.