Learning from our History: Living Beyond the Walls of the Institution Wednesday, July 22, 4:30-6:00pm Join the Western Pennsylvania Disability History Consortium, Temple University Institute on Disabilities, and Pennhurst Memoral and Preservation Alliance for a facilitated virtual discussion of the obstacles to living beyond the walls of institutionalized settings, current issues in … [Read more...]

This week, Bruce Baker, creator of the Minspeak system died. "The key to Minspeak’s success is that it uses hieroglyphics for input rather than an alphabet. Instead of laboriously typing in each word they want to say, users can point to icons that can be combined to form sophisticated thoughts. A single icon can be used in a wide variety of ways, representing different words and thoughts … [Read more...]

ROUGH EDITED COPY WE COUNT: PENNSYLVANIANS WITH DISABILITIES AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DISABILITY HISTORY AND ACTION CONSORTIUM HEINZ HISTORY CENTER, MUELLER CENTER PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15222 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019 * * * CART CAPTIONING*PROVIDED BY: ADVANCED REALTIME CAPTIONING SOLUTIONS, LLC [email protected] 412 513 6219 * * * * * This is … [Read more...]

Link to Video from Comcast Newsmakers: Untold Disability History Project Director Mary Hartley sits down with Sheila Hyland to discuss: the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium's work preserving and sharing disability history as well as some history of Polk State Center and its impending closure and the upcoming "We Count" voting event at Heinz History Center on October … [Read more...]