Save October 10th 1-4 PM for a Voting Symposium Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium Event at Heinz History Center.  We will be sharing more information soon about local, state and national speakers and partners as well as the link to register. … [Read more...]

This week the History Consortium received exciting news: "The Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium has been selected to receive the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities’ 2019 Hervey B. Wilbur Historic Preservation Award. This award recognizes significant contributions to historic preservation of the archives of the field of intellectual and … [Read more...]

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...]