By Shaina Rudolph
Ages:4-8
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Explore with young people the experiences of people with disabilities, the bias and discrimination they face, and the struggle to continue fighting for their rights.
By Maryann Cocca-Leffler
Ages:6-9
Teach students about disability rights activist Judy Heumann and what work in schools and communities still remains.
Teach students about what disability means, and the tools and accommodations that people with disabilities need.
Engage in a family conversation about accommodations are and why people with disabilities need them.
Use the short evocative videos and films in this lesson plan to engage young people in conversations about identity, diversity, bias and social justice.
By Frank Murphy
Ages:5-8
Teach students about Derrick Coleman, learning more about his life and reflecting on a story written by a Deaf teenager.
By Tiffany Hammond
Ages:5-8
By Kelly Fritsch
Ages:6-9
By Nancy Bo Flood
Ages:4-8
By Kelly Yang
Ages:8-12
By Lucy Falcone
Ages:5-8
By Sonia Sotomayor
Ages:4-8
By Brayden Harrington
Ages:4-8
By Amanda Gorman
Ages:4-8
By Sheletta Brundidge
Ages:4-7
By Jordan Scott
Ages:6-9
Americans with disabilities are a group of approximately 40.7 million people that today lead independent, self-affirming lives and who define themselves according to their personhood—their ideas, beliefs, hopes and dreams—above and beyond their disability. Since the mid 1900s, people with disabilities have pushed for the recognition of disability as an aspect of identity that influences the experiences of an individual, not as the sole-defining feature of a person. People with…