Nothing About Us Without Us: Centering Disabled People in Disability Advocacy Presentation for Boggs Center Developmental Disabilities Lecture Series By Emily Ladau

Readings and References

Disability and Language • 4 Disability Euphemisms That Need to Bite the Dust, Emily Ladau • Why Person-First Language Doesn’t Always Put the Person First, Emily Ladau • Functioning labels and support needs, Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Explicit Biases Toward Disability • Bottom Dollars, Rooted in Rights • Broken Promises: The Underfunding of IDEA, National Council on Disability • A Teenager Didn’t Do Her Online Schoolwork. So a Judge Sent Her to Juvenile Detention., ProPublica • Overprotection and lowered expectations of persons with disabilities: the unforeseen consequences, Karen Y Sanders

Implicit Biases Toward Disability • Implicit Biases & People with Disabilities, American Bar Association Commission on Disability Rights • Thought Exercise on Implicit Bias, Stephanie Woodward

Respecting Disabled Personhood • Plain Language Summary: Self-Determination & Dignity of Risk, Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities National Training Center • “Presume Competence” – What Does That Mean Exactly?, Ariane Zurcher

Disability Culture • Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, James I. Charlton • Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People, Sins Invalid • Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally, Emily Ladau • Questioning Continuum, Carol J. Gill • Editorial: What is Disability Culture?, Dr. Steven Brown • Disability Culture Rap, Cheryl Marie Wade

Disability Media • I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much, Stella Young • Jerry Lewis, Jerry's Orphans and The Telethon, Ragged Edge Magazine • The Kids Are All Right • Sia Adds Warning Label to ‘Music’ Movie, Apologizes to Autism Community on Heels of Golden Globes Nominations, Variety

Recommended Resources • Rooted in Rights • Disability Visibility Project • The Unwritten • Lost in a Desert World: An Autobiography, Roland Johnson • Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, edited by Julia Bascom • Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, Rebekah Taussig • Haben, Haben Girma • Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong • The Pretty One, Keah Brown • Strangers Assume My Girlfriend is My Nurse, Shane Burcaw • Black Disabled Art History 101, Leroy Moore • The Color of My Mind, Dior Vargas • Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner • Golem Girl: A Memoir, Riva Lehrer • Words I Wheel By Newsletter