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Friday, February 27, 2009

International women's group focuses on disability issues

From the February 2009 Table of Contents for The Women's International Perspective:

Adam: Not Your Average Love Story by Jessica Mosby - USA

From Marginalized to Mainstream: A Call for Inclusive Education in India
by Sumukha S. Ravishankar - USA/India

Seeking Inclusion and Opportunity, the Disabled Confront Pakistan’s Myriad Challenges by Zubeida Mustafa - Pakistan

Living “One Day at a Time” in the Economic Crisis:The New Face of America’s Middle Class by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany

Over the Hills and Far Away: A Family Treks Across Mongolia to Help their Autistic Son
by Jessica Mosby - USA

India's Garment Industry Steps Up Efforts to Hire People with Disabilities by Mridu Khullar - India/USA (Above, a picture of a person with a disability weaving).

BA Haller at 2:23 PM

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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