The Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium presents: Let's Not Repeat the Past History Meets Disability Advocacy 2018 Two half-day events will discuss learning from the past—how the disability rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s informs present-day issues and advocacy. May 31 and October 18, 2018 9:30 a.m. to noon Both events are free and open to the … [Read more...]

March is National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. This year's theme is See Me For Me. You can follow or post related news and events on social media using hashtag #ddawareness18.  President Ronald Reagan first established March as National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in 1987. Read his original proclamation. Also check out Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf's 2018 … [Read more...]

Have you looked at our Facebook page lately? You can take two simple steps to help spread news by and about the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium. If you are active on Facebook, please take a moment to LIKE our page. This helps bring our posts to your attention. The LIKE button is at the top of the page, right under the large image of our logo. If you see a … [Read more...]

In January, NPR did a series of reports on a largely hidden epidemic of sexual assault against people with intellectual disabilities. Previously unreleased numbers obtained by NPR from the U.S. Department of Justice show that the rate of sexual assault against people with intellectual disabilities is seven times higher than against people without disabilities—and most often, it is by someone they … [Read more...]

A talk at the October Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) tackled how archives can make their collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Sierra Green, archivist at the Heinz History Center’s Detre Library and Archives and Coalition steering committee member, went to the 90-minute session titled “We Can Improve: Equal Access to Collections for Patrons with … [Read more...]