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In doing so, we want to highlight disability activists whose work continues to expand our understanding of disability and help to remove social stigmas around disability.
Students like 12 year old youth scholar and disability activist, Helena Donato-Sapp, who has published scholarly pieces in peer-reviewed journals and is a regular guest lecturer in college graduate courses on topics such as Black girlhood, disability justice, and how children can decolonize their elementary school curriculum.
And queer, autistic, disabled, non-binary femme scholar-activist, Leah Lakshmi Piepzan-Samarasinha whose writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans.
We encourage you this month to expand your understanding of disability in the workplace and in the classroom because there's a lot more to learn about the variety of ways we experience our shared world.
-- Dr. Ronke Oke
The Office of Institutional Safety & Equity
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National Disability Employment Month |
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Low - tech examples:
- Pencil grips
- Computerized devices
- Text-to-Speech / Speech-to-Text
- Word Prediction Software
- Text-to-speech software helps students to bypass the task of decoding words. Seeing individual words highlighted as the text is read aloud may help to improve students’ sight word vocabulary.
- Speech-to-text software bypasses the tasks of handwriting and spelling, allowing the student to concentrate on developing their ideas and planning their work.
- Speech-to-text software bypasses the tasks of handwriting and spelling, allowing the student to concentrate on developing their ideas and planning their work.
- Word Prediction Software was originally designed for students with physical disabilities who experienced difficulty typing. However, word prediction with text-to-speech is also effective for students with learning disabilities because it reduces the need for handwriting, and improves students’ spelling accuracy and writing skills
Mid-to-high tech examples
- Audio recorders
- Portable note takers
- MP3 Players
- Calculators
- Smartpens
- Prezi
- Concept organizers, whether completed electronically or by hand, may contribute to better writing in students with learning disabilities.
- Pentop computers can be used for reading (text-to-speech), writing (digitizing written words), and math (strategy feedback).
- Calculators can help students with learning disabilities demonstrate their understanding of mathematical computations. Graphing calculators can provide additional support as they verify graph shapes and help solve algebraic equations.
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Subtitle the world
Sirens blare and the roar of impatient drivers echoes in the background. Jake Giovanni, who is deaf, sits across from me in his apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina, to test out XRAI Glass-new tech that produces captions in real time for those...
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www.morningbrew.com
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As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world, from either his wheelchair or his two feet, without having to be seen himself. The unexpected arrival of a circus tent outside his apartment in Oakland, CA leads him to consider the history and legacy of P.T. Barnum’s Freak Show and its lingering presence in his daily life in the form of gawking, lack of access, and other forms of ableism.
Informed by his position in space, lower to the ground, Davenport captures indelible images, often abstracted into shapes and patterns separate from their meaning. But the circus tent looms in the background, and is reverberated by tangible on-screen interruptions, from unsolicited offers of help to careless blocking of ramps. Personal and unflinching, I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE forces the viewer to confront the spectacle and invisibility of disability.
Offering both a perspective and stylistic approach that are rarely seen, Reid brings an urgently needed storytelling eye to filmmaking with a documentary that is powerful and emotional, thoughtful and raw, intimate and political. Watch Trailer
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October 1st is Native Women's Equal Pay Day. On average, Native women make 57 cents to every $1 a white man makes.
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October 29th is Latina Women's Equal Pay Day. On average, Latina women make 55 cents to every $1 a white man makes.
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How the Government Can End Poverty for Native American Women
American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women in the United States who work full time and year-round are paid 40 percent less than white, non-Hispanic men working comparable hours, making just 60 cents for every dollar earned by their white male ...
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www.americanprogress.org
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The Longest Time to Equal Pay: Latinas and the Wage Gap...
In 2021, October 21 marks Latina Equal Pay Day, or the day Latina women must work, on average, into the new year to earn what their White male counterparts brought home in the previous year. This represents over nine additional months of...
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iwpr.org
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Women of Color and the Wage Gap
Women of Color and the Wage Gap As breadwinners, workers, and caregivers, women of color have been the longtime yet unsung backbone of the U.S. economy. This integral role has been front and center during the devastating COVID-19 pandemic that...
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www.americanprogress.org
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PAFA has arrived at a historic moment. Last month, PAFA's President & CEO, Eric Pryor, the Senior Staff officially approved a change to the holiday schedule. Beginning October 2022, PAFA will officially recognize October 10th as Indigenous People's Day.
Special thanks to Ashley Caranto Morford (Liberal Arts Department) and Ronke Oke (OISE/Liberal Arts Department) whose ongoing partnership with IPD, Philly has pave the way for and informed institutional decolonial efforts like PAFA's recognition of Indigenous People's Day and the development of a standard institutional Land Acknowledgement Statement. Special thanks also to Lisa Biagas who has worked to move PAFA towards a recognition of indigenous People's Day since joining PAFA in 2018, and whose continued support has brought PAFA to this moment.
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Monday, October 10th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Philly!
Don’t miss out on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Philly 2022! The event will be at Shackamaxon (Penn Treaty Park) on Monday, October 10, 2022, from 11 AM – 5 PM EDT. The event will be held outdoors to ensure safety and comfort for all attendees and participants.This is a family-friendly event, everyone can join our community as we celebrate an indigenous future!
The event is hosted by Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly, Inc (IPD Philly), an Indigenous-led non-profit organization based in Philadelphia, PA. Through a celebration of culture, this annual event provides space for different Indigenous communities in the city to shed light on the history and strength of our people from 530 years of resistance.
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is an opportunity for Indigenous people to celebrate and share their cultures, as well as bring attention to the needs of their communities.
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IPD, Philly's vision is to counter the historical Indigenous erasure—the deliberate and systematic destruction of Native cultures and violent displacement of Native peoples to this day—by organizing powerful and multifaceted initiatives like our annual “Indigenous Peoples’ Day Philly at Shackamaxon” (Penn Treaty Park). An initiative that centers the lived, hyper-present experiences of the Lenni-Lenape today—whose traditional homeland is where Philadelphia now stands—as well as the experiences of the Taino (Indigenous Caribbean) and other Native-American/Indigenous communities living in the region.
Over time, we want to be recognized as a creative Indigenous social justice movement that supports the Lenni-Lenape tribes by building stronger communication channels between the City of Philadelphia and Tribal governments. Our long term goals include providing a sanctuary space for Indigenous Peoples living in the region, creating community support to abolish the city’s harmful and racist practices that continue to suppress Native history over the celebration of white supremacists like Christopher Columbus and George Washington, and educate the Philadelphia community about the untruths and misconceptions that surround holidays like Thanksgiving Day and Columbus Day.
You can read more in IPD, Philly's official Press Release about Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Philly!
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Click the videos below to watch past Indigenous People's Day programs |
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Mother and Child
by Kathy Faul
On June 4, 2018 the Continuing Education Department published a profile on PAFA student, Kathy Faul highlighting not only the sculpture pieces Faul has created but also the transformative classes PAFA offers for visually impaired students. Faul, who is blind, took classes with other visually impaired students Read more about her experience.
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We challenge you to check PAFA’s Diversity Awareness Calendar monthly and attend monthly OISE sponsored events. The purpose of this calendar is to celebrate and raise awareness of religious obligations, ethnic and cultural festivities, and significant events that may affect students, colleagues, and friends in the PAFA community.
Being an ally for a S.A.F.E. Community at PAFA
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