Disability & Accessibility Resources

Resources & Further Learning to get you started (this is not an exhaustive list)

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Documentary: Crip Camp on Netflix
Stella Young’s Ted Talk – “I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much”
Books for adults:
- Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
- Being Heumann: An Unrepetant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann
- Amanda Leduc’s books – The Centaur’s Wife; Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability & Making Space; The Miracles of Ordinary Men
- Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
- If At Birth You Don’t Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster & Destiny by Zach Anner
- And so many more!
Books for children:
- What Happened To You? by James Catchpole
- Mama Zooms by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
- Can Bears Ski? By Raymond Antrobus
- All The Way To The Top by Annette Bay Pimentel
- A Kids Book About Disabilities by Kristine Napper
- Not So Different: What You Really Want To Ask About Having A Disability by Shane Burcaw
- El Deafo by CeCe Bell
- This Beach Is Loud by Samantha Cotterill
- Frida Kahlo – Little People, Big Dreams series
- I am Not A Label: 34 Disabled Artists, Thinkers, Athletes, and Activists from Past and Present by Cerrie Burnell
Inclusive Toys:
- The Lockwood
- Barbie Fashionista Dolls
- Inclusive Dolls at Hello Boho Babe and The Butterfly Pig and many more just do a quick Google search.
- Rex Action Figure from Paw Patrol
TV & Film:
- Special TV Series on Netflix
- Speechless (TV Series)
- Walter “Flynn” White Jr, a character in Breaking Bad, has cerebral palsy
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, Netflix Documentary

For Kids

Paw Patrol Season 7 features a new character, Rex – a disabled Bernese Mountain Dog
- Sesame Street’s character Julia is autistic
- She-Ra (the new series on Netflix) features a few disabled characters
- “Goldie & Bear” on Disney Jr. The mom is in a wheelchair.
- “Chip & Potato” on Netflix – the principal of the school is in a wheelchair.
- Mandy Mouse, a character in Peppa Pig, uses a wheelchair

Podcasts:
- The Accessible Stall with Emily Ladau
- The Heumann Perspective with Judy Heumann
- Special Books By Special Kids – YouTube channel, interviews people with different disabilities

Follow Hashtags
- #SayTheWord
- #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
- #TheFutureIsAccessible
- #AbleismIsTrash
- #DisabilityRights
- #DisabilityAwareness

Follow Activists and Influencers
- @bumpandhustle (Kat Inokai)
- @amanda.leduc
- @nina_tame
- @disability_visability (Alice Wong)
- @zach.anner
- @crutchesandspice (Imani Barbarin)
- @theheumannperspective (Judy Heumann)
- @disabilityreframed (Ashley Harris Whaley)
- @thecatchpoles (James & Lucy Catchpole)
- @sitting_pretty (Rebekah Taussig)
- @shaneburcaw
- @daniizzie
- @ableismistrash
- @specialbooksbyspecialkids
- And many, many more.