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The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA). An organization dedicated to bridging the gap between people and technology, ATA is "a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers, Vendors and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies." Use the interactive information service to locate resources for your students. http://www.ataccess.org/
Barber-Fendly, Kimber and Chris Hamel. "A New Visibility: An Argument for Alternative Assistance Writing Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities." CCC 55.3 (February 2004). 504-535.
Blind Links, by Ron Marriage. This Website is accessible also by email through adaptive technology. It hosts extensive links under the following timely topics for visually-impaired students. http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/rblind.html
Bobby Watchfire. Check Websites for universality and make sure that it is ADA compliant (or accessible to all by following the regulations of the American Disabilities Act); to do so, put the URL through the Bobby Website to test it out; go to http://bobby.watchfire.com
Brueggeman, Brenda Jo. "The Coming Out of Deaf Culture and American Sign Language: An Exploration into Visual Rhetoric and Literacy." Rhetoric Review 13 (1995): 409-420..
---. Enabling the Humanities: A Sourcebook for Disability Studies in Language and Literature. New York: MLA, 2002.
---. Lend Me Your Ear : Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness. Washington: Gallaudet UP, 1999. Interviews, poetry, personal narratives, and powerful rhetorical arguments make this key text in disability studies useful both for pedagogical planning and classroom use.
Brueggeman, Brenda Jo, Linda Feldmeier White, Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A. Heifferon, and Johnson Cheu. "Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability." CCC 52.3 (February 2001): 368-398. In this pivotal collection of perspectives, the authors analyze rhetorical constructions of normalcy in contemporary culture and offer insights for teaching in writing and composition environments.
Canadian National Institute Library for the Blind. The CNIB offers online access to its digital library through this site. If you are not a client, you can select the "guest" option on the log-in screen to browse. http://www.cnib.ca/library/
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST). A not-for-profit education research and development organization that uses technology to make education more flexible and accessible for all students, especially those with disabilities. Some of their technology products include CAST's pioneering r UDL-based software such as Thinking Reader, WiggleWorks, Bobby, and CAST eReader. The Website is a fantastic portal for resources for teachers. http://www.cast.org/
Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds, England. Although under reconstruction to increase universal access, this site is a portal to a vast range of references, activities, definitions, and organizations. The pages for teaching and publications are particularly useful for instructors. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/
Choice Magazine Listening. A free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers. CML was created in 1962 by the non-profit Lucerna Fund to offer the best of contemporary magazine writing, completely without charge, to adults unable to read standard print. http://members.aol.com/choicemag/
Disability World. This bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views hosts a rich set of resources, including extensive and up-to-date information on disabilities in there arena of International News, Independent Living, and Access & Technology. There are also a special topics on Arts & Media, Women, and Children as well archives of resources. http://www.disabilityworld.org/
Disabilities Campaigns in the United States:1930s-1960s. This link through the Disabilities Social History Project provides users access to an online exhibit of buttons, postcards, and other visual artifacts used in to promote awareness about disabilities. http://www.disabilityhistory.org/exhibits.html
"Disability—Demonstrated By & Mediated Through Technology." Kairos 7.1 (Spring 2002). This special issue of Kairos focuses exclusively on the issue of disabilities and technology and includes articles such as "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space" and "Performing (Everyday) Exceptionalities: A Web-Text on Disability in Drama and Performance Art." http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/index.html
Disability Films. Explore how disabilities are represented in film through a rich online archive created by David Greenhalgh The website is aimed at both students and teachers; it includes "a detailed list of 2,500 feature films which involve in one way or another various disabilities." Explore films by category and analyze how film participates in the construction of rhetorical representations of disability. http://www.disabilityfilms.co.uk
Disability Studies in the Humanities. This page from Georgetown's Crossroads Website links to many helpful Internet sites including online syllabi and Web resources. http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interests/ds-hum/index.html
Faculty Resources: Disability Support Services. This useful page from the University of Missouri-Rolla offers tips to faculty who may not previously have taught visually impaired students. http://campus.umr.edu/dss/pages/vision.htm
Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Disability in the Humanities. This extensive bibliography contains citations for "works within the humanities that pertain to disability." http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/interests/ds-hum/ds-bib.html
Klein, Marty. "Movies, Anyone?" Share this online article with your class to initiate discussion. Written by blind person who loves to go to films with friends, the article can help begin a conversation about various ways of "seeing" a film, what to attend to during a screening, and modes of learning. http://www.vashti.net/blind/movies.htm
Nielsen, Jakob. "Making Flash Usable for Users with Disabilities." Alertbox, 14 October 2002. In this article, Nielson provides tips for creating Flash animations that are accessible to visually impaired users. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021014.html
Rose, David and Anne Meyer. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. (ASCD, 2002). A collaborative book emerging out of the work of Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), this text not only provides guidance on technological approaches to accessibility for students with disabilities but more fundamentally, argues that the use of technology can transform the nature of curricular methods to accommodate widely varying learner needs. The book is available online at http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/
Society for Disability Studies. Of particular interest is this site's link page that provides access to an array of organizations and publications focused on disabilities studies. http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/index.html
"Universal Design for Learning." Explore the resources, interactive exercises, and explanation through the CAST Website to develop your expertise in this important area of Web development and help you teach the materials in Chapter 8. http://www.cast.org/research/udl/index.html
VSA Arts. An international nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a society where people with disabilities can learn through, participate in, and enjoy the arts, VSA arts is the US coordinating organization for arts programming for persons with disabilities. The Website hosts a rich compendium of resources, links, exercises, and articles. . http://www.vsarts.org/
Wassmuth, Birgit. "Using a Digital Camera to Teach Physically Challenged Students." Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. 52.4 (Winter 1998) 80-85. From ERIC: "Describes how an innovative application of new technology, in a Graphics of Journalism course, not only accommodated a physically challenged student but empowered her to fully participate in the learning process, and allowed her to discover and develop talents and skills that may lead to career opportunities not previously imagined."
Wilson, James C.and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, eds. Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture. Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. This collection of essays includes an important piece by Brenda Jo Brueggeman, "Deafness, Literacy, Rhetoric."
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