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Friday, June 11, 2021

'I am not ashamed': Disability advocates, experts implore you to stop saying 'special needs'

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from USA Today : In our daily lives, we may encounter phrases like "I am disabled" or "My child has special needs." A...

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Creators-Directors of film "Drought," now on Amazon Prime, say authentic casting can happen in any production

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In the picture, (L-R) Hannah Black, Owen Scheid, Megan Petersen and Drew Scheid in Drought. from MovieMaker . By Drought filmmakers Mega...

Friday, April 23, 2021

Why ‘Crip Camp’ deserves to win the Oscar for Best Documentary

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By Kristen Lopez at IndieWire : I spend a lot of my time talking about the state of disability representation in media. It’s never been a go...

Singer with disability shines in Broadway star Ali Stroker's new kids book

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From The Associated Press : NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway star Ali Stroker says she always felt like her "most powerful self" when on...

Monday, March 22, 2021

SXSW Review: "Best Summer Ever," the first film with a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities

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From Flixist : Part Grease , part High School Musical, Best Summer Ever is a musical taking on the high school genre with a fully-integ...

Monday, March 8, 2021

The New York Times, National Center on Disability and Journalism partner to enhance coverage of disability issues

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By Kasey Brammell, NCDJ The National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University is partnering with The New York Times...

Friday, February 12, 2021

Slamdance Film Festival's new 2021 Unstoppable program of films features 22 films with disabled actors, filmmakers, disability themes

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From the Slamdance Film Festival : The Slamdance Film Festival's new 2021 program, Unstoppable, features 22 short films from up and com...

Sunday, January 31, 2021

NBCUniversal pledges to include actors with disabilities in auditions for all film, TV projects

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From The Associated Press : In the picture, actress Eileen Grubba appears in a scene from "New Amsterdam." NBCUniversal said Jan...

Saturday, January 30, 2021

"CODA," Sundance film about sole hearing member of Deaf New England family who discovers she has a talent for singing, purchased by Apple for record-breaking $25 million

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From The Hollywood Reporter : Apple has nabbed the rights to Sundance drama CODA from writer-director Sian Heder in a deal worth $25 mill...

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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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