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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Nyle DiMarco Opens Up About Having to Leave Black Panther Because Poor Captioning

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From Teen Vogue : In  this op-ed by Nyle DiMarco, as told to Bobby Siebert, Nyle opens up about having to leave Black Panther, and th...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Media dis&dat participates in February 17 #FilmDis Twitter chat on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

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Image description: The Rebecca character (a late 20s, brown-haired Caucasian woman) in a yellow floral sundress reads about her new diagn...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Nationwide Class Action Challenges Hulu's Discrimination against Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals

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From the American Council of the Blind : BOSTON ,   Nov. 20, 2017   /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A coalition of blind and visually impaire...
Friday, November 10, 2017

ABC's SPEECHLESS named 2017 recipient of Annie Glenn Award by American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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From ASHA : The ABC  Television  Network series SPEECHLESS will be honored with the Annie Glenn Award for 2017 by the American Speech-L...

Scotland plans to integrate sign language into everyday life

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From the BBC : The Scottish government has announced plans to integrate the use of British Sign Language (BSL) into everyday life. Me...

The world really is a stage, scripts and all, to autistic actor

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From The NY Times :  SYRACUSE — Early Thursday morning at the cafe across the street from  Syracuse Stage , an actor named Mickey R...
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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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