VIDEO

Individual Disabilities & Sexuality

2014

FindCenter Summary

Lynn Pedotto interviews Katie Frank about sexuality education for children with disabilities.

16:37 min

It’s Perfectly OK to Call a Disabled Person ‘Disabled,’ and Here’s Why

We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.

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Disabled and Fighting for a Sex Life

How misperceptions about disability can prevent people with physical and cognitive impairments from being able to express their sexuality.

Katharine Quarmby

Boosting Productivity and Pride

When employers hire and nurture employees with disabilities, everyone benefits, research finds.

Reflections from a Different Journey : What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew

Reflections from a Different Journey presents 40 stories by successful adults who grew up with disabilities. They provide insights into what it is like to persevere in the face of community prejudices, and what it takes for families and children with disabilities to work together toward fulfillment.

Stanley Kein, John Kemp

This Is How to Talk About Disability, According to Disabled People

When the problems facing the disabled community are so material, it may seem inconsequential to have a conversation about words, but a debate about how we talk about disabilities, and how disabled people talk about themselves, has been going on for decades, and it’s especially important now, with...

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black,...

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood.

Research Finds New Reasons for Unemployment Among People with Disabilities

New research has found nine meaningful reasons that prevent people with disabilities from seeking work.

12 of the Biggest Challenges People with Disabilities Face when Pursuing an Office Job

Insider spoke to a variety of individuals who have different disabilities to highlight some of the biggest issues and types of discrimination that they face in the workplace.

No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

People with disabilities forging the newest and last human rights movement of the century.

Joseph P. Shapiro

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