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manny-pacheco's picture
Jul.27.2012
Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History clearly examines the topic of Disability in Film. The catalyst of this most special of chapters is Lionel Barrymore, who pioneered non-disability roles  in cinema he appeared in after 1938, while obviously confined to crutches or a wheelchair....
anne-ford's picture
Jul.27.2010
Seventeen years before the Americans with Disabilities Act was enacted, I heard the words "learning disabilities" for the first time. My daughter Allegra was diagnosed with severe LD, which affected every aspect of learning and created enormous challenges with friendship and social...
jennifer-kathleen-gibbons's picture
Jul.26.2010
When I was a kid, there was a public service announcement sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which a boy accidentally breaks a window with a baseball. The old coot neighbor starts to complain, and then the boy admits he broke the window. The kid then sings “I told the...