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Resource List 13 (BIB13)
2nd Edition
March 2003 Update
Approx. 15 pages when printed.
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NICHCY receives many calls each year from people who are looking for materials on disability awareness. People need these materials for many different reasons, from classroom instructional units, to Girl Scout information fairs, to school reports. This listing of Resources You Can Use provides just a sample of selected materials available from different organizations.
We've arranged the material in the following five categories:
For each item, we provide the following information (when available): title and the year it was created; author; the age range for which it is intended; the name, address, phone number, E-mail, and Web address of the company from which it is available; and a brief description. You will need to contact the publisher to find out cost and ordering information.
This list is by no means exhaustive of the materials available. The list can serve as a starting point for anyone interested in disability awareness issues. Finally, this resource list is not intended to serve as an endorsement for any of the products listed. We urge you to carefully evaluate all materials in order to determine which is most appropriate for your particular needs.
If you are interested in finding out about what months during the year are dedicated to spotlighting awareness of specific disabilities (for example, March, 2003 is Mental Retardation Awareness Month), you can obtain this information by contacting:
Healthfinder
P.O. Box 1133
Washington, D.C. 20013-1133
E-mail: healthfinder@nhic.org
Web: www.healthfinder.gov/library/nho/nho.asp
Count Me In Disability Awareness Manual (2001)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: PACER Center, Inc., 8161 Normandale Boulevard, Minneapolis,
MN 55437-1044., Phone: (888) 248-0822 (toll free), E-mail: pacer@pacer.org,
Web: www.pacer.org
This manual is designed for teachers, parents or volunteer puppeteers. It includes information about many disabilities and suggested activities for increasing disability awareness. PACER also has a puppet sales catalog offering puppets and scripts that can be used with the Count Me In curriculum. A separate Coordinator's Handbook is available for people developing a Count Me In project in their community.
Disability Awareness in the Classroom: A Resource Tool for Teachers and
Students (1999)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 2600 S. First Street, Springfield,
IL 62704., Phone: (800) 258-8980 (toll free). E-mail: books@ccthomas.com,
Web: www.ccthomas.com
These materials are intended to prepare all students for inclusive classrooms. They explore inclusion and disability awareness and provide many ideas for classroom activities and discussions.
Friends Who Care (1990)
Age: Elementary school
Available from: Easter Seals—National Office, Communication Department,
230 W. Monroe Street, Suite 1800, Chicago, IL 60606. Phone: (800) 221-6827 (toll
free), Web: www.easter-seals.org
This curriculum is a “starting point [for] helping teachers, parents and young people develop a better understanding of what it means to have a disability.” It includes a teacher’s guide, activity sheets, posters, a video, and bookmarks.
Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability
(1984)
Age: Early childhood
Available from: Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 100 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10011. Phone: (212) 243-1110 (V/TTY). E-mail: information@edequity.org,
Web: www.edequity.org
Activities in this guide are grouped into three areas: same/different (hearing impairment), body parts (visual impairment), and transportation (mobility impairment). Inclusive Play People and Mainstreaming for Equity Posters are also available (see “Posters and Other Merchandise”).
The Kids on the Block Programs
Age: Unspecified
Available from: The Kids on the Block, Inc., 9385-C Gerwig Lane, Columbia, MD
21046. Phone: (800) 368-5437 (toll free). E-mail: kob@kotb.com,
Web: www.kotb.com
The Kids on the Block curricula use live puppet theater to enlighten children on the issues of disability awareness, medical-educational differences, and social concerns. Curricula include teacher’s guides, puppets, props, audiocassettes, a coordinator’s manual, and a video training guide. The puppets are nearly life-size, and each has “likes, dislikes, hopes, fears, talents, abilities, and limitations.” Over 40 programs are available, covering topics ranging from AIDS to autism to spina bifida.
Lessons for Understanding: An Elementary School Curriculum on Perspective-Taking
(1997)
Developed by: T. Vandercook, L. Medwetz, J. Montie, P. Taylor, and K. Scaletta
Age: Grades K-5
Available: See below.
This K-5 curriculum promotes understanding and appreciation of different perspectives, leading to respect for diversity and support for truly inclusive school communities. The 24 lessons are clustered in four units: My Perspective, Other Perspectives, Understanding Conflict, and Working Together. The curriculum is designed for use in classrooms where students with and without disabilities learn together; suggested adaptations are included. A unique feature is a focus on strengthening home-school partnerships through communicating lesson content to families.
Lessons for Understanding: A Junior High and High School Curriculum
on Perspective-Taking (1999)
Developed by: L. Walz, M. Nelson, and K. Scaletta
Age: Grades 6-12
Available: See below.
The 20 lessons are based on the idea that, in order to attain sustained change of behavior, one must be aware of and willing to examine the paradigms underlying behavior, as well as understand the paradigms underlying the behavior of others. Lessons are clustered around the same four themes as in the elementary curriculum above. Unique features of the curriculum include reflection questions for the teacher or facilitator to review before presenting the lessons, and a focus on communicating the lesson content to parents or other adults in the students’ lives.
Both the elementary school curriculum and the junior/high school curriculum are available from: Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, 102 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive, S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455. Phone: (612) 624-4512. E-mail: publications@icimail.education.umn.edu Web: ici.umn.edu/default.html
New Friends Curriculum
Age: Preschool and kindergarten
Available from: Chapel Hill Training-Outreach Project, 800 Eastowne Drive, Suite
105, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. Phone: (919) 490-5577. E-mail: ylayden@intrex.net,
Web: www.chtop.com
The New Friends Curriculum is designed to help parents and educators teach young children about disabilities. The program “guides parents and teachers through the process of making dolls with various disabilities” and introducing them into the classroom. The curriculum includes four products: New Friends Teacher’s Manual (also in Spanish), New Friends Trainer’s Notebook, a 12-minute video entitled Introducing New Friends, and a 12-minute video entitled Issues in Mainstreaming.
Sensitivity and Awareness: A Guide for Developing Understanding Among
Children
Age: Elementary and middle school
Available from: Jason & Nordic Publishers, P.O. Box 441, Hollidaysburg,
PA 16648. Phone: (814) 696-2920. E-mail: turtlebooks@jasonandnordic.com,
Web: turtlebooks.altoona-pa.com/index_html
This curriculum includes background materials, lesson plans, and activities to help children understand and interact with children who have disabilities. While it is designed to be used with the publisher's Turtle Books series about youngsters with disabilities, it can also be used independently.
Some Ways the Same, Some Ways Different
Age: Elementary school
Available from: The Children’s Museum, Museum Kits Program, 300 Congress
Street, Boston, MA 02210. Phone: (617) 426-8855; (617) 426-5466 (TTY), Web:
www.bostonkids.org
This curriculum provides a foundation for children learning about disabilities and the exploration of more extreme differences. Each kit contains a teacher's guide with background information, activities, resources, and bibliography. Available kits include units on learning disabilities, visual impairments, deafness, augmentative and alternative communication, physical disabilities, and mental retardation.
Alike and Different: Exploring Our Humanity with Young Children (1992)
Editor: Bonnie Neugebauer
Available from: National Association for the Education of Young Children Educational
Resources and Products, P.O. Box 932569, Atlanta, GA 31193-2569. Phone: (866)
623-9248 (toll free). E-mail: naeyc@ pbd.com,
Web: www.naeyc.org/onlineshop/welcome.asp
This collection of essays can be used to help teachers of young children “integrate children with special needs and children with all sorts of backgrounds into your program to make it better for everybody.”
Different is Not Bad, Different is the World: A Book About Disabilities
(1994)
Author: Sally Smith
Age: Elementary school
Available from: Sopris West Publishers, 4093 Specialty Place, Longmont, CO 80504.
Phone: (303) 651-2829. E-mail: customerservice@sopriswest.com,
Web: www.sopriswest.com
This illustrated book introduces children to physical and learning disabilities. The book also introduces famous historical figures who had disabilities and succeeded despite them. The book “helps all children understand how disabilities can be ’nuisances,’ but that differences are good—they add to the richness of our world.”
Everybody's Different: Understanding and Changing Our Reactions to
Disabilities (1999)
Authors: Nancy B. Miller & Catherine C. Sammons
Available from: Paul H. Brookes Publishing, P.O. Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624.
Phone: (800) 638-3775 (toll free). E-mail: custserv@brookespublishing.com,
Web: www.brookespublishing.com
This book ”discusses mental and emotional obstacles to effective communication between people with and without disabilities and examines ways to become more at ease with the concept of disability.”
Kids, Disabilities & Regular Classrooms (1997)
Author: Gary Bunch
Available from: Inclusion Press International, 24 Thome Crescent, Toronto, Ontario,
M6H 2S5, Canada. Phone: (416) 658-5363. E-mail: info@inclusion.com,
Web: www.inclusion.com
This is an annotated bibliography of children's literature about disabilities. It is an ”exciting guide to positive stories about children...[and] an excellent resource for every classroom, family, library, and human service organization.”
Learning From Those We Support: A Disability Awareness Handbook (1999)
Author: Dr. Jill Wheeler
Available from: Program Development Associates, P.O. Box 2038, Syracuse, NY
13022-2038. Phone: (800) 543-2119 (toll free). E-mail: info@pdassoc.com,
Web: www.disabilitytraining.com
This book is intended as a primer for those who provide direct services to adolescents and adults with disabilities and require in-service training. Ideal for adult service personnel, general education staff, and paraprofessionals.
Using Children’s Literature to Learn about Disabilities and
Illness (1996)
Author: Joan K. Blaska
Available from: Practical Press, 4627 Eagle Trace Drive, Medford, OR 97504-9049.
Phone: (541) 608-9108. Web: www.practicalpress.net
This book is a detailed how-to manual for using children’s literature to teach children about differences, disabilities, and chronic illness. It provides general information about using books, along with annotated bibliographies categorized by subject matter, type of disability, how the disability is treated, and theme.
There are many children’s books available on a wide range of disabilities. We have listed some below. For assistance with obtaining these books, contact the publisher, your local bookstore, or a local library. Also, the book entitled “Using Children’s Literature to Learn about Disabilities and Illness,” listed under Books, offers suggestions for using children’s literature to teach children about differences and disabilities and includes annotated bibliographies of disability-related children’s literature. NICHCY’s Resources You Can Use on children’s literature (Bib5) may also help you identify other children’s books.
Roots & Wings Educational Catalog
Available from: Roots & Wings, P.O. Box 19678, Boulder, CO 80308-2678. Phone:
(800) 833-1787 (toll free). Web: www.rootsandwingsbooks.com
This catalog offers a large number of children’s books, including:
Turtle Books
Available from: Jason & Nordic Publishers, P.O. Box 441, Hollidaysburg,
PA 16648. Phone: (814) 696-2920. E-mail: turtlebooks@jasonandnordic.com,
Web: turtlebooks.altoona-pa.com/index_html
Albert Whitman & Company Concept Books
Available from: Albert Whitman & Company, 6340 Oakton St., Morton Grove,
IL 60053-2723. Phone: (800) 255-7675 (toll free). Email: mail@awhitmanco.com,
Web: www.awhitmanco.com
Whitman & Company’s Concept Books cover a wide range of topics including adoption, Down syndrome, asthma, and the loss of a loved one. Titles include:
Woodbine House Children's Books
Available from: Woodbine House, 6510 Bells Mill Rd., Bethesda, MD 20817. Phone:
(800) 843-7323 (toll free). Web: www.woodbinehouse.com
As part of its special-needs collection, Woodbine House offers a number of children’s books related to disability, including:
As I Am: Portraits of Persons with Developmental Disabilities (1990)
Age: Teenagers
Available from: Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02131.
Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com
Web: www.fanlight.com
This documentary traces the experiences of three young people with disabilities. The video offers basic information on developmental disabilities and simple guidelines for relating to people with a cognitive impairment.
Autism: Being Friends (1991)
Age: Young children
Available from: Center for Disability Information and Referral, Indiana Institute
on Disability and Community, 2853 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-2601.
Phone: (812) 855-6508. E-mail: cedir@indiana.edu,
Web: www.iidc.indiana.edu/cedir/autism.html
This 8-minute video “portrays the abilities of the child with autism and describes ways in which peers can help the child to be a part of the everyday world.”
Challenge (1997)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Fanlight Productions, Inc., 4196 Washington Street, Boston,
MA 02131. Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: fanlight@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 28-minute video focuses on a number of determined people with a variety of disabilities whose lives have been renewed through their participation in athletics. Using minimal narration, they tell us their own stories in their own words. The athletes participate in rock climbing, wheelchair tennis, golf, and downhill and cross-country skiing.
Choices
Age: Pre-K thru junior college
Available from: Comforty Media Concepts, Inc., 2145 Pioneer Road, Evanston,
IL 60201.
Phone: (800) 343-5540. E-mail: comforty@comforty.com,
Web: www.comforty.com
This 30-minute video profiles four students who are successfully included into preschool, elementary school, and junior college: Cami, age 3; Erin, age 5; Jackie, age 9; and Joan, 19.
A Classroom Explores Disabilities (1991)
Developed by: Kim Davis, Annamaria Mecca, and Laura Westberg.
Age: Young Children
Available from: Early Childhood Center, Indiana Institute on Disability and
Community, 2853 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-2601. Phone: (812)
855-6508. E-mail: eccenter@indiana.edu,
Web: www.iidc.indiana.edu/ecc/products_curriculum.htm
This videotape and companion curriculum guide provides an overview and specific examples of a disabilities awareness curriculum in action. It shows teachers, children, and parents as participants in the process of learning about disabilities, themselves, and each other.
Educating Peter (1993)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Ambrose Video, 145 W. 45th Street, Suite 1115, New York, NY
10036. Phone: (800) 526-4663 (toll free). Web: www.ambrosevideo.com
This 30-minute, HBO prime-time documentary follows the story of Peter, a third-grader with Down syndrome, as he is included into a regular classroom. “Both Peter and his classmates go through a difficult and rewarding process of adjustment as he becomes a regular third grader.”
Embers of the Fire (1992)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Fanlight Productions, Inc., 4196 Washington Street, Boston,
MA 02131. Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 29-minute documentary offers a straightforward clinical explanation of cystic fibrosis, but its primary focus is on the stories of several young people with CF during a week at camp. They talk openly about their fears of rejection, isolation, and death, but they also demonstrate the ways in which they have come to terms with their chronic illness and learned to lead fulfilling lives.
Face First (1998)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02131.
Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 29-minute video reflects the filmmaker's own painful memories of social isolation as a child with cleft lip and palate and how it led him to the three other remarkable people profiled in this video, each with a facial birth defect. These young people developed a strong sense of self and the ability to look at their experiences with compassion and humor.
Freedom of Speech (1997)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Attainment Company, Inc., P.O. Box 930160, Verona, WI 53593-0160.
Phone: (800) 327-4269 (toll free). E-mail: info@attainmentcompany.com,
Web: www.attainmentcompany.com
This 28-minute video examines the impact augmentative communication has on the quality of life of two individuals, one a professional, the other a preschooler.
Introducing New Friends
(see the New Friends Curriculum).
Issues in Mainstreaming
(see the New Friends Curriculum).
Just Like Anyone Else (1990)
Age: Grades 7-12
Available from: Human Relations Media, 41 Kensico Drive, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.
Phone: (800) 431-2050 (toll free). Web: www.hrmvideo.com
This 30-minute video portrays individuals with physical disabilities engaging in everyday activities. It is designed to “bring your physically-challenged students a sense of power and hope,” while helping typical students to “reach out with new empathy and understanding to their peers.” Included is a Teacher’s Resource Book.
KidAbility (1999)
Age: Grades K-12
Available from: Program Development Associates, P.O. Box 2038, Syracuse, NY
13220-2038. Phone: (800) 543-2119 (toll free). E-mail: info@pdassoc.com,
Web: www.disabilitytraining.com
This 25-minute video shows children narrators educating themselves and the viewers about disabilities. They meet people who have visible disabilities and some that do not. They discover how adults and other children with disabilities deal with obstacles in their everyday lives from using the telephone to participating in sports activities.
KidAbility Two: Assistive Technology (2001)
Age: Grades 5-12
Available from: Program Development Associates, P.O. Box 2038, Syracuse, NY
13022-2038. Phone: (800) 543-2119 (toll free). E-mail: info@pdassoc.com,
Web: www.disabilitytraining.com
This 24-minute video, hosted by teenagers, is designed as an introduction to assistive technology for kids with and without disabilities. It shows how assistive technology devices work and how people with disabilities use the devices in their daily lives.
Making Inclusion Work—Video and Facilitator's Guide (1999)
Age: Elementary school
Available from: Sopris West, 4093 Specialty Place, Longmont, CO 80504. Phone:
(303) 651-2829. E-mail: customerservice@sopriswest.com,
Web: www.sopriswest.com
This video is geared for teachers, school administrators, and staff to develop inclusion skills and to impart practical strategies for teaching diverse learners. The Facilitator's Guide offers tips for using the video with groups and individuals.
No Body's Perfect...Everybody's Special!!
Age: Grades Pre-K-5
Available from: Attainment Company, Inc., P.O. Box 930160, Verona, WI 53593-0160.
Phone: (800) 327-4269 (toll free). E-mail: info@attainmentcompany.com,
Web: www.attainmentcompany.com
This 21-minute video profiles three children with different disabilities. Students are introduced to signing, prosthetics, assistive technology, and Braille. The teacher’s guide includes role-playing, drawing, completing worksheets, and discussing issues that extend to all disabilities.
One of Us: Four Stories of Inclusion (1992)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02130.
Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 27-minute video showcases four individuals with developmental disabilities and their inclusion into mainstream society.
Raymond's Portrait (1997)
Age: High school
Available from: Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02131.
Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 30-minute video profiles Raymond, a talented young artist who has Down syndrome. The video covers the challenges of growing up with Down syndrome and the experience of being fully mainstreamed in high school.
Small Differences (1995)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Program Development Associates, P.O. Box 2038, Syracuse, NY
13220-2038. Phone: (800) 543-2119 (toll free). E-mail: info@pdassoc.com,
Web: www.disabilitytraining.com
This 20-minute video was shot by elementary and middle school children and professionally edited. The children interviewed and recorded each other, their parents and other adults, and children with various types of physical and sensory disabilities.
Something Magical
Age: Elementary school
Available from: Ed-Pro, Inc., 9000 S.W. Gemini Drive, Beaverton, OR 97008-7151.
Phone: (800) 950-4949 (toll free). Web: www.edpro.com
This 30-minute video shows the bonds that developed between typical third and fourth grade students and children from a special school for children with cerebral palsy during preparations for a musical.
Twitch and Shout (1994)
Age: Unspecified
Available from: Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02131.
Phone: (800) 937-4113 (toll free). E-mail: info@fanlight.com,
Web: www.fanlight.com
This 57-minute video looks through the eyes of a photojournalist with Tourette Syndrome and introduces viewers to others who have this disorder, including a professional basketball player, an artist, an actress, and a lumberjack.
A Victory of Spirit
Ages: Grades 7-12
Available from: Human Relations Media, 41 Kensico Drive, Mt. Kisco, NY 10549.
Phone: (800) 431-2050 (toll free). Web: www.hrmvideo.com
This 60-minute video follows the experiences of two North Carolina Special Olympics athletes. It is narrated by Maria Shriver and highlights the dedication and spirit of Special Olympics athletes.
Inclusive Play People
Available from: Educational Equity Concepts, Inc., 100 Fifth Avenue, New York,
NY 10011. Phone: (212) 243-1110 (V/TTY). E-mail: information@edequity.org,
Web: www.edequity.org
These "six sturdy multiracial wooden figures... provide a unique variety of nonstereotyped work and family roles and are inclusive of disabled and nondisabled people of various ages." The figures can be used alone for block building and dramatic play or as part of the Including All of Us curriculum.
PACER Bookmarks
Available from: PACER Center, Inc., 8161 Normandale Boulevard, Minneapolis,
MN 55437-1044. Phone: (888) 248-0822 (toll free). E-mail: pacer@pacer.org,
Web: www.pacer.org
These bookmarks are one of the components in the Count Me In curriculum described earlier and contain “tips for students who meet a person with a physical disability.”
Posters from NAEYC
Available from: National Association for the Education of Young Children, Educational
Resources and Products, P.O. Box 932569, Atlanta, GA 31193-2569. Phone: (866)
623-9248 (toll free). E-mail: naeyc@pbd.com,
Web: www.naeyc.org/onlineshop/welcome.asp
Posters, Postcards, T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Tote bags, and Buttons
Available from: Human Policy Press, P.O. Box 127, University Station, Syracuse,
NY 13210. Phone: (800) 894-0826 (toll free). E-mail: thechp@sued.syr.edu,
Web: soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/HumanPolicyPress/
Posters:
Postcards:
Buttons:
Posters, T-shirts, and Bumperstickers
Available from: The Nth Degree, 21325 Bradner Road, Lucky, OH 43443. Phone:
(800) 241-8468 (toll free). E-mail: wheelchairboy@glasscity.net,
Web: www.thenthdegree.com
T-shirts:
Posters:
Bumperstickers:
T-shirts, Sweatshirts, and Totes
Available from: Open Hearts, Open Minds, 2 Newman Street, Lewiston, ME 04240.
Phone: (800) 375-9337 (toll free). E-mail: Openhearts@
aol.com, Web: members.aol.com/ohom
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