Disability Awareness

• Bandaids and Blackboards
  This is a site about growing up with medical problems...any ole type. Its goal is to help people understand what it's like, from the perspective of the children and teens who are doing just that. These kids have become experts at coping with problems that most of you have never heard of. They'd like you to know how they do it, and they hope that you'll be glad you came to visit one of the three areas (one for kids, one for teens, and one for adults).
• Count Me In
  This puppet program was designed to help children and adults learn about disabilities and chronic illnesses in an effort to bridge the gap between typical students and those with disabilities included in the classroom.
• Cromwell Center for Disabilities Awareness
  Disabilities awareness education for students, future educators, and in workplaces.  The Center does not teach about particular disabilities, engage in "show and tell," or provide any direct services to persons with disabilities.  We change attitudes.  The target population is people without disabilities; the ultimate beneficiaries are all people, with and without disabilities. 
• Disability Awareness Resources
  From the National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
• Disability Awareness Bibliography
  From the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR), Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, The University Affiliated Program of Indiana.
• Disability Awareness Guide
  From Very Special Arts
• Disability Awareness Kit - Australia
  Understanding of the ways in which the information needs of people with disabilities can be met
• Disability History Museum
  A searchable, theme-based digital collection that exists only online --offering documents and images related to disability history in the United States, drawn from public and private collections around the country.
• Disability/Probability Interdisciplinary Project
  The objectives for this project: the learner will be introduced to and conduct research into individuals with disabilities; library research and a formal oral report will be conducted by cooperative groups; the learner will listen to a speech from a disabled individual; the learner will study and gain an appreciation of how a diverse number of cultures deal with challenged individuals; the learner will conduct probability analyses based upon the incidence of certain disabling conditions.
• Everybody Counts
  Everybody Counts! is an exciting, interactive, educational disability awareness program for young people.  Our goal is to promote understanding and acceptance of differences through a classroom-oriented program.  The program is designed to allow children to experience both the feelings and challenges of coping with a wide range of disabilities.  Tactile, visual and auditory learning activities allow for all learning styles.
• Kids on the Block
  This company provides educational puppet programs which enlighten all children on the issues of disability awareness, medical/educational differences, and social concerns.
• Building Disability Awareness & Inclusion
  Resources for schools.
• Pathways Awareness Foundation
  A not-for-profit organization dedicated to education for and about children with movement and physical challenges.

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