Overview

In our work focused on full access, disability justice, and equity, here are a few of the valuable resources we’ve discovered and/or developed for and with educators and students.

“Nothing about Us without Us”: Students and Community

• Christian’s experience – LaGuardia student Christian Manzanares describes a “bad day”
• Designing for All (D4A) report:  LaGuardia’s 2017-18 CUNY-funded project collaboration among students, staff, and faculty dedicated to making the college a welcoming learning environment for all
• Designing for All Student Survey summary (n=564) asking students about challenges and obstacles they face at LaGuardia, implemented Spring 2018
• What Does Deaf Mean?
• “Nothing About Us Without Us: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights” (New York Times, July 22, 2020)

How-to’s

• Workshop: Make It Accessible with Universal Design (video)
• Tips for Auditory Access @ LaG
• Checklist for Making Your Learning Materials Accessible for All (How-To’s)
• 7 Core Skills from Accessibility U
• Make your document or presentation more accessible (from google, but the same principles apply to other tools)
• Intro to Web Accessibility
• Libraries: Take AIM! Accessible Instructional Materials and Higher Education  for libraries and all college entities working to make learning materials accessible for students

LaGuardia & CUNY

• LaG Resources: Office of Accessibility, Project REACH, Neurodiversity Committee
• CUNY Resources: Journal of Teaching Disability Studies,  COSDI (Council on Students with Disability Issues), Project REACH and ASD, CUNY Accessibility Conference 2022, CUNY Disability Scholars Listserv

Universal Design

• Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities in Higher Education: A Universal Design Toolkit, Sheryl Burgstahler
• UDL Guidelines from CAST
• Inclusive Instructional Design: Applying UDL to Online Learning, Kavita Rao
• Transforming Inclusive Education (Bowling), Shelley Moore, Canadian Educator
• UDL in the classroom (James Costa’s middle school speech/communication class provides excellent real-life examples of UDL in action)

Recommended Readings and Resources

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education, Jay Dolmage
• Cripping the Curriculum  – David Connor and Susan Grabel
• Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, Margaret Price
• Nirmalla Erevelles’ articles: “Unspeakable offenses: Untangling race and disability in discourses of intersectionality“, “These deadly times: Reconceptualizing school violence by using critical race theory and disability studies” and “Understanding curriculum as normalizing text: disability studies meet curriculum theory”, explore the intersections of curricular design, institutional policies, ableism, and racism in classroom practices; these theoretical groundings are crucial to building out genuinely accessible curricula and classroom experiences. (These articles are available by logging in through the CUNY Library system.)
• Baglieri, S., & Lalvani, P. (2019). Undoing ableism: Teaching about disability in K-12 classrooms. Routledge.
• Derek Stadler’s LibGuide on OER and Accessibility
• Keywords for Disability Studies (collected essays)

Blogs/Sites/People to Follow

• Margaret Price’s blog
• David Connor, Professor Emeritus, Hunter College, co-author of Cripping the Curriulum