Friday, March 11, 2016

News from UM Association of Ministers with Disabilities, 3/11/16

Disability Studies certificate
http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=fc4d1d6b69c4ca3b7c360527d&id=04bb896812&e=3be94e61ff

Disability.gov seeks participants for No Boundaries Project
https://usodep.blogs.govdelivery.com/2016/03/04/disability-gov-seeks-participants-for-its-fourth-no-boundaries-photo-project/

Moving beyond stigma: understand it first
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/March-2016/To-Move-Beyond-Stigma,-We-First-Need-to-Understand?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=blog

Neglecting a human in front of us
http://disabledchristianity.blogspot.com/2016/03/neglecting-human-being-right-in-front.html

Disability porn -- patterns and typical forms
http://www.thismess.net/2016/03/disability-and-media-inspiration-porn.html

Paul Longmore's final book, about the culture of telethons and their effect on disability perceptions, is now available.
http://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/telethons-book-likely-disrupt-notions-about-charitable-giving-and-disabled-people

Why adults delay hearing care (an interesting social vs. medical element here)
http://hearinghealthmatters.org/hearingeconomics/2016/three-important-perspectives-many-adults-delay-care-hearing-loss-part-2/

Update: Disability Ministries web page on emergency preparedness
http://www.umdisabilityministries.org/widen/plans.html


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