Disability Pride Month

July is disability pride month, and we the library would love to share with you some books with you from our collection. At Clark College we strive to create an environment of safety and equity for all students, staff, and faulty if you are a new student coming to us in fall or a student that has been here for a while and don’t know about our Disability Support Services we implore you to take a moment and check them out.

Stories and Views

‘Disability Pride: Dispatches from a post-ADA world’ By Mattlin, Ben

‘Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body’ By Taussi, Rebekah

“Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Taussig only saw disability depicted as something monstrous, inspirational, or angelic. She longed for more stories that allowed disability to be complex and ordinary, uncomfortable and fine, painful and fulfilling. Here she writes about the rhythms and textures of what it means to live in a body that doesn’t fit. Taussig reflects on everything from the complications of kindness and charity, living both independently and dependently, experiencing intimacy, and how the pervasiveness of ableism in our everyday media directly translates to everyday life. She shows how disability affects all of us, directly or indirectly, at one point or another.”

‘A Journey Into the Deaf-World’ Lane, Harlan

‘Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today: Adapted for Young Adults’ Wong,  Alice

‘Becoming Disabled: Forging a Disability View of The World’ Wilson, Jan Doolittle

Disability and Education

‘Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability’ By Merle, Froschl

‘Education For All: Critical Issues in the Education of Children and Youth with Disabilities’ By Graf, Vanessa and Jimenez, Terese.C

 “When it was passed in 1975, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act was a historic piece of legislation that guaranteed all students with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education. Thirty years later noted practitioners, advocates, policy makers, researchers, individuals with disabilities, and parents gathered at Loyola Marymount University to discuss the current practices in the field and make recommendations for the future. This book is a result of that event.” “Education for All offers an important resource for educators and parents who teach and support students with disabilities. The book includes contributions from noted authorities in special and general education including Mary Falvey, Diane Haager, Robert Rueda, and Janette Klingner. They address the important overarching issues in the field and focus on topic that are relevant to students no matter what their individual disability.”

‘Challenging Ableism, Understanding Disability, Including Adults with Disabilities in Workplaces and Learning Spaces’  By Tonette S, Rocoo

‘Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education’ By Dolmage, Jay

‘Success for College Students with Learning Disabilities’ By Susan A. Vogel, Pamela B . Adelman and Lerner, Janet W

‘Strengths-Based Approaches to Educating All Learners with Disabilities: Beyond Special Education’ By Wehmeyer, Michael L

‘Disabilities and the Library: Fostering Equity for Patrons and Staff With Differing Abilities’ Clayton A. Copeland and Blanche Woolls

Media and Education

‘Disability and the Media: Prescriptions for Change’ By Riley, Charles A.

‘Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essay on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability’ By Cheu, Johnson

“This essay collection gathers recent scholarship on representations of diversity in Disney and Disney/Pixar films, exploring not only race and gender, but also newer areas of study. Covering a wide array of films this compendium highlights the social impact of the entertainment giant and reveals its cultural significance in shaping our global citizenry”

‘Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies’ By Routledge and edited Jacob Johanssen and Diana Garrisi. (Ebook)

‘Disability and Digital Television Cultures: Representation, access, and Reception’ By Ellis, Katie (Ebook).