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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Microsoft, American Council of the Blind partner to advance accessibility

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Press release from ACB and Microsoft : REDMOND, Wash. and ARLINGTON, Va. – Dec. 17, 2015 – Microsoft Corp. and the American Council of...

Saturday, December 26, 2015

2015: The Year Mental Illness Finally Got Some Respect on TV

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From New York magazine : Mental health on TV has been enjoying a quiet transformation in recent years, and in 2015, the change grew l...

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Feds: Most NY City elementary schools violate Americans with Disabilities Act

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From The AP : A federal investigation has found that 83 percent of New York City's public elementary schools are not fully accessi...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Deaf model Nyle DiMarco wins America's Next Top Model

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From People Magazine : History had already been made when Nyle DiMarco was selected as ANTM 's first Deaf contestant. Now th...

Friday, December 4, 2015

American Sign Language typeface added to RIT's Vignelli Center for Design Studies collections

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From RIT : Peter A. Blacksberg’s passion for a project involving American Sign Language culminated this year using digital font creati...

Thursday, December 3, 2015

National Center on Disability and Journalism releases new, comprehensive style guide

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From NCDJ at Arizona State University: The National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University has released a one...

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Comcast to include video description with NBC’s production of 'The Wiz Live!'

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from Comcast : Comcast will include a national video description pilot program with NBC’s broadcast of the hit Broadway musical The Wi...

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte to join British Channel 4 lineup for Rio Paralympics

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From The Guardian in the UK: Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s disabled son Walt Jr, will join Channel 4’s hosti...

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

A&E Network to premiere new original docu-series ‘Born This Way,’ which focuses on adults with Down syndrome

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From the A&E Networks . Pictured are Rachel, Sean, Cristina and Steven, who star in the new A&E Docu-Series “Born This Way.” ...

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

University of Michigan Press endorses accessible book publishing guidelines

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From Inside Higher Ed : A key first endorsement from the University of Michigan Press has a group of disability studies scholars hopefu...

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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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