News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 15 October 2021

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

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DHM/UMCD

• Ava: Deaf Awareness: the many ways to be
• DOOR: The best way to minister to the Deaf is through the Deaf
• K. Bouton: Captions are the wheelchair ramp for the Deaf
• DHM Awareness and history resources
• All of Us: Sign Language, Deafness, and Exclusion in Renaissance England
  

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DMC

• The Garden UMC: World Mental Health Day service
• UMC Discipleship: The Church’s Ministry with Dementia
• SAWS Newsletter
• Radical Wholeness: Awareness
• ADN: Taking the mystery out of mental health
• Disability Visibility Project: Twenty questions
  

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Events

• Covid-19 list of inclusion resources
• October 15, Eastern PA Conference, Domestic Violence for Deaf people workshop
• October 16: Church Interpreters Group
  
• October 16: Kona  UMC+Hawai'i PH, Live Q&A in ASL, Covid-19
• October 16, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, (Still) calling from the edge
• October 18, Syracuse University: Aktion T4 and Contesting the Erasure of Disability History
  
• October 19, Stone Belt ARC: People with I/DD in congregational leadership
  
• October 30, St. John's School of Theology, Theologies of Disability and Aging
• November 3, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Deafness Cures in History
• November 4, US Access Board, Designing for Inclusion: Architectural Trends and Social Justice
  
• November 6, Accessible to All? A Faithful Response to Disabilities
  
• November 17, Grace UMC DE Deaf Ministry lunch
• November 17, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Disability in Ancient Rome
• November 24, Research & Knowledge Exchange, Intellectual Disability in England, 1750-1900
  
• December 1, Grace UMC DE Deaf Ministry lunch
• December 2, Deaf Advent Bible Study
• December 4, Signing for the Holidays
  
• December 9, Deaf Advent Bible Study
• December 16, Deaf Advent Bible Study
  
• June 6-9, 2022: Institute on Theology and Disability, MTSO and hybrid

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