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E-Resources Spotlight: Disability Pride Month

This month is Disability Pride Month, which commemorates the passing of landmark US legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. A selection streaming films and e-books that illuminate the experiences of persons with disabilities and foster understanding around disability rights are included below.

Streaming Films for Disability Pride Month

• Autism Goes to College – This film offers an eye-opening look at what a growing number of neuro-diverse students are bringing to campuses.
• Blind Love – This film follows four single, blind Millennials in their quest for love, with assists from their eager circle of family and friends, on an eye-opening journey to find love and self-discovery.
• Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy – The story of a compelling and creative friendship between two of the country's most remarkable advocates for people with disabilities, Diana Braun, who has Down Syndrome, and Kathy Conour, who has cerebral palsy, as they model a grand experiment in independent living.
• Born This Way Presents: Deaf Out Loud – This documentary follows three predominantly deaf families as they raise their children in a hearing world.
• Dealt – The story of Richard Turner, one of the world's most renowned card magicians, who met adversity head-on and refused to let his disability define him.
• Deej – A first-of-its-kind collaboration between a veteran filmmaker, Robert Rooy, and a non-speaking autistic, DJ Savarese ("Deej"), who share editorial control as they navigate the challenges of representing autism. As DJ dreams of college, he confronts the terrors of his past, society's obstacles to inclusion, and the often-paralyzing beauty of his own senses.
• Defiant Lives: The Rise Of The Disability Rights Movement – This film traces the origins of the world-wide disability rights movement, featuring interviews and rarely seen archival footage; it reveals how disability activists challenged the stigmas and negative image of disability portrayed by the media, demanded access to public transportation, and battled to reframe disability rights as a social responsibility relevant to us all.
• Feeling Through – The first film to feature a DeafBlind actor, this coming of age story follows Tereek, a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie, a DeafBlind man in need of help getting home.
• Gabe – Gabe, a college graduate with a severe form of muscular dystrophy, receives a new diagnosis with a doubled life expectancy. He sets out to make a life he never thought he would have with an inspiring combination of bravery, humor, and love.
• My Depression – This film uniquely illuminates the symptoms, emotions, and side effects of depression using animation, comedy and music. Taking viewers through an individual's journey from the early symptoms through the darkest moments, it illustrates a variety of ways to alleviate the pain, survive depression, and move towards a positive, fulfilling life.
• My Beautiful Stutter – Five kids who stutter, ages 9 to 18, from all over the United States, meet other children who stutter at an interactive arts-based program, The Stuttering Association for the Young (SAY), based in New York City. This film shares the incredible transformation that happens over the course of a year, when young people who, after experiencing a lifetime of bullying and stigmatization, for the first time discover the revolutionary idea that it's okay to stutter.
• Murderball – Young men, most with spinal injuries, play quad rugby on the US team and talk frankly about their injuries, feelings in public, sex lives, competitiveness, and love of the game.
• RAMPED UP: The Pitfalls of the Americans with Disabilities Act – This film addresses the pitfalls of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the politics and money that are stilled tied up with accessibility in America, following two people with disabilities with diametrically opposing views on how to remedy inaccessibility.
• Take a Look at This Heart – This film about love, sexuality, and the human bond within the disabled community, journeys into the lives of 17 unique people; some with disabilities and the partners who love them, others struggling to get by in a world that often overlooks them.
• The Key of G: Disability, Caregiving and Interdependence – An award-winning documentary about disability, caregiving and interdependence. This film tells the story of Gannet, a 22-year-old man with severe disabilities, as he prepares to move out of his mother's home and into a San Francisco apartment with three musicians and artists as primary caregivers.
• Where Hope Grows – This film tells the story of baseball player whose professional career was cut short due to his personal problems, who is suddenly awakened and invigorated by a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.

Find additional films on disability by going directly to one of our streaming platforms from the A-Z list, and entering the search term 'disabilit*'. This search will return results for streaming films that include either 'disability' or 'disabilities' in the title. 

E-Books on Disability

• Creating Inclusive Library Environments: A Planning Guide for Serving Patrons with Disabilities (2016)
• Disability: A Diversity Model Approach in Human Service Practice (2016)
• Disability: Functional Diversity (2020)
• Disability and Public Health (2009)
• Disability, Culture and Identity (2003)
• Disability Histories (2014)
• The Disability Studies Reader (2013)
• Education, Disability and Inclusion (2017)
• Feminist Disability Studies (2008)
• Group Work with Persons with Disabilities (2016)
• Multidisciplinary Interventions for People with Diverse Needs: a Training Guide for Teachers, Students, and Professionals (2020)
• New Narratives of Disability: Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies (2019)
• People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? (2013)
• Perspectives and Research on Play for Children with Disabilities: Collected Papers (2021)
• Seeking to Understand: A Journey into Disability Studies and Libraries (2020)

Find additional e-books on the subject of disability by going directly to one of our e-book platforms from the A-Z list, and entering the search term 'disabilit*'. This search will return results for e-books that include either 'disability' or 'disabilities' in the title.