TENTATIVE LIST OF RESOURCES [Connor Chapter]

Suggestions for Further Reading

Books on Film/Media and Disability

Susan Antebi & Beth Jorgensen’s edited book Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies published in 2017 by SUNY Press. This book brings together Latin American film and literary works with cultural studies and disability studies. Contributing authors discuss topics such as impairment, illness, trauma, and human rights in the context of representations and constructions of disability throughout Central and South America.

Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic’s edited book The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film published in 2010 by Ohio State University Press. The authors invited disability scholars from US, UK, Canada, and South Korea to examine cinematic representations of ‘problematic’ bodies, including the intersectionality of disability with gender, sexual orientation, race, and social class. Various explorations of classical Hollywood film, French cinema, film noir, and illness narratives reveal the ways in which disabled bodies are constructed in the public imagination.

Kate Ellis and Gerrard Goggin’s Disability & The Media published in 2015 by Palgrave. Part of the series Key Concerns in media studies, this text explores ways in which the media interacts with disability, and vice versa. In particular, issues of access, participation, and representation of people with disabilities in society—as reflected in film, radio, television, and new digital technologies.

Beth Haller’s Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essaya on Mass Media published in 2010 by Advocado Press. The author, a journalism professor, calls upon two decades of research in disability and mass media in this unique collection analyzing film, television, news, advertising, and social media. The book’s broad range substantiates many critiques leveled at the media for its limited portrayals of disability, offering sharp insights and ways in which the disabled community have actively “spoke back” to widespread inaccuracies, offering insights into how to address misrepresentation.

Marja Evelyn Mogk’s Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television published in 2013 by McFarland Press. This volume of essays by authors from the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and India focuses on representations of disability on television around the world. It features examples of how disability is produced and ‘consumed,’ with analyses of biopics, autobiographical films and documentaries.

Nicole Markotic’s Disability in Film and Literature published in 2016 by McFarland & Company. The author challenges depictions of disabled people that reinforce ableist conceptualizations of disability as abnormal and problematic. In her analysis of a wide variety of film and literature, Markotic explores portrayals of the disabled she believes range from disparaging to humorous, arguing for a reconceptualization of the normal/abnormal binary that unnecessarily reifies human differences.

Martin Norden’s The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disabilities in the Movies published in 1994. This volume chronicles how cinema has portrayed physical disabilities—largely in terms of fear and pity on one hand, or awe and inspiration on the other. Norden’s analysis of hundreds of films reveals ways in which the movie industry had played a major role in maintaining stereotypes, confining people with disabilities to restricted options in all areas of their lives. In addition, he calls attention to the increase of progressive portrayals of disability in both mainstream and independent movies.

Charles Riley II’s Disability and The Media: Prescriptions for Change published in 2005 by UPNE. In this volume the author focuses on how the medicalized conceptualization of disability has remained steadfast throughout the history of cinema, representing tragic and unhappy people who need fixed or cured. Riley takes to task all branches of the media for using “disability” for their own ends—of telling particular stories—that financially benefit the tellers while providing inaccurate representations. In addition, he offers ways in which disability can be reframed in more complex, realistic ways that accurately portray human differences.

Christopher Smit and Anthony Enns’ edited book Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability published in 2001 by UPA. The authors argue that artistic expressions of disability, including film, often portray people with disabilities as objects of fascination, making them into a form of “the other.” Such portrayals provide distorted renderings of disable people’s reality. In charting the study of disability within cinema, the authors introduce different ways to interpret human representation.

Books on Disability History

Susan Burch and Mike Rembis’ edited Disability Histories published in 2014 by University of Illinois Press. The field of disability history is fairly new yet rapidly expanding, as evidenced in this volume that brings together international scholars to redraw boundaries that determine who and what is considered of historical value in studying disability. Nineteen essays within the volume integrate a critical analysis of gender, race, and historical content to challenge traditional interpretations of disability.

Doris Fleisher & Freida Zames’ The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation (2nd ed.), published in 2011 by Temple University Press. The authors’ landmark book chronicles how disability grew from being associated with pity and ‘poster children’ used for raising money to a grass roots disability-rights based movement that pressured governments to change laws. Taking on topics including deinstitutionalization and , physician-assisted suicide, and struggle sin the courts, the authors present a fascinating look at how disabled people have been percieved has changed so much.

Douglas Baynton’s Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of published in 2016 by University of Chicago Press. In this book the author asserts that immigration history has traditionally focused in limiting immigrants according to race and ethnicity, overlooking disability. He goes on to explain in fascinating detail about policies of the US government to keep “defectives” from entering the country.

Kim Neilson’s A Disability History of the United States (Revisioning American History) published in 2013 by Beacon Press. Covering a period from pre-1492 to the present, this book places disability at the center of telling the narrative of US history. Somewhere between a familiar framework and a radical repositioning, this text requires the reader to re-think dis/ability and its relation to slavery, immigration, and gender discrimination.

Sara F. Rose’s No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, published in 2017 by University of North Carolina Press. The author focuses upon how during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with many types of disabilities came to be labeled as “unproductive citizens.” Charting the confluence of industrialization, public policies, and shifting family structures, and the gravitation for disabled people from workplace and homes to institutions, she relates disability and labor history in ways that lead us to question the demands of modern society places upon the bodies of its citizens.

Paul Longmore and Lauri Umansky’s The New Disability History: American Perspectives published in 2001 by New York University Press. The authors open up disability’s hidden history by looking at religious, medical, and cultural misunderstandings. By charting the lives of disabled citizens in different historical times, the authors illuminate hospitals, schools, and courtrooms that have helped shaped what society knows about disability.

Joseph Shapiro’s No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement published in 1994 by Broadway Books. This “classic” paperback book presents a constellation of topics that engage the reader, including cultural forms of pity, the damage done by many disability charities, the growth of independent living, the manufacturing and marketing of wheelchairs, and the worthiness of every life. Although over two decades old, it is a compelling read as it was one of the first to challenge widespread traditional thinking about disability.

Books on Disability Studies

David Connor, Jan Valle, & Chris Hale’s edited book Practicing Disability Studies in Education, Acting Toward Social Change published in 2014 by Peter Lang. The editors invited scholars from around the world to reveal ways in which they utilize Disability Studies in Education with Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. All chapters share a similar grounding in seeking to create different and improved ways of understanding human differences.

Lennard Davis’s The Disability Studies Reader edited book The Disability Studies Reader (4th edition) published by Routledge in 2013. This epic text is structured in six sections historical perspectives, the politics of disability, stigma and illness, theorizing disability, identities and intersectionalities, disability and culture, along with fiction, memoir, and poetry. It is widely considered the definitive volume of disability studies.

Dan Goodley’s Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction published in 2017 by Sage. The author examines a diverse range of theories and perspectives toward engaging in current debates within the interdisciplinary field. The book includes questions, activities, and thought provoking exercises to engage the reader’s beliefs.

Simi Linton’s Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity, published in 1998 by New York University Press. In this foundational text, the author makes a clear case for “claiming” disability as a minority identity, using the concept as a framework through which to make suggestions about society in general. Charting important episodes in throughout history, including the civil rights movements, the text challenges readers’ beliefs by destabilizing assumptions about disability and difference.

Media and Disability Resources (from Beth Haller’s professional webpage, please credit her) https://mediadisability.wordpress.com/films-tv-documentaries/

Documentaries

o Alicia (living with brain injury) (A promising 18-year-old drama student sustains brain damage; her response to her disability was to start a theatre group and become an active member of the community) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL87F1B11B7EB06A34 o Autie: An Documentary (A documentary about autism, rights and ) Free online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRibeoE8HDA o Autism in Love (A 50-year-old autistic man finds self acceptance and love0 http://www.michellefriedline.com/films/autisminlove/ o Autism: The Musical (Follows the lives of five LA children on the over the course of six months as they prepare for a musical production) http://www.autismthemusical.com/ o Autistic Like Me (Fathers of autistic children talk about their family lives) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2438862/ o Becoming Bulletproof (The film documents the making of a Western with actors with and without disabilities) http://www.becomingbulletproofmovie.com/ o Best Kept Secret (The POV documentary follows students in a program at a NJ high school) http://www.pbs.org/pov/bestkeptsecret/ o Body & Soul: Diana and Kathy (Two women with disabilities support each other and live independently) http://www.dianaandkathy.com/ o Body of War (Focuses on returning disabled veteran Tomas Young, 25, who became paralyzed from a bullet to his spine – wounded after serving in Iraq for less than a week) http://www.bodyofwar.com/ o Bong & Donnell (A friendship between a disabled boy and a nondisabled boy) http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/disability_awareness/bongdonnell_PERCH 1004.html o Born Freak (Disabled actor Mat Fraser explores how disabled performers survived working in freak shows) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/575/752 o Breathing Lessons. The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien (Polio survivor Mark O’Brien, who was a writer and poet) Watch free online here: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/breathing_lessons o Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children (Free online documentary about Bulgaria, which has more institutionalized mentally and physically disabled children than anywhere else in Europe.) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/bulgarias-abandoned- children/ o Cinemability (Examines the evolution of disability portrayals on film and TV) http://www.cinemability.com/ o Code of the Freaks (Examines Hollywood images of disability, tracing themes from the 1920s to the present) http://vimeo.com/36204424 o Dakota’s Pride (A father searches for the truth about Down syndrome) Free online here: http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/dakotas_pride o Darius Goes West (Teen with muscular dystrophy and his friends travel cross country to get him a customized wheelchair) http://www.dariusgoeswest.org/the- film/ o Deaf Jam (A deaf teen begins to perform ASL poetry and decides to perform at a poetry slam) http://www.itvs.org/films/deaf-jam & http://www.deafjam.org/ o Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America (Behind-the-scenes look at the 2010 Ms. Wheelchair America Pageant) http://definingbeautydoc.blogspot.com/ o Enable (People with disabilities and technology) http://www.rehabtool.com/video/ o Educating Peter & Graduating Peter (Follows a boy with Down syndrome through his inclusive educational experience) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XbvNuCy6-o o Emmanuel’s Gift (Tells the story of an orphan in Ghana who is an amputee) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447016/ o Employment Matters & Employment Matters Too (Discusses the benefits of hiring people with intellectual disabilities) Free online here: http://employmentmatterstoo.com/ o Freedom Machines (About the significant impact of technology in the lives of people with disabilities) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/559/736 o A Friend Indeed-The Bill Sackter Story (True story of Bill Sackter, who left a lifetime in an institution to emerge as an international hero for people with disabilities) Full documentary online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUfaB41xjao&list=FLS3YJgvIPKYs7nM- 7y4ylTA&index=6&feature=plpp_video o Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement (Film looks at human enhancement through bionic limbs, prenatal screening, technology for disabled people, and neural implants) http://www.fixedthemovie.com/ o F**k the Disabled (Gay, disabled comedian Greg Walloch chronicles his life and comedy career) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_VvygUaEiQ o Going Blind (Blind people tell their personal stories) http://www.goingblindmovie.com/ o Heavy Load (A year in the life of the mixed ability punk band, Heavy Load) http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/heavy_load_in_new_york o Her Name is Sabine (A French actress/filmmaker tells the story of her sister who has autism) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031928/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 o The Horse Boy (Tale of family resilience in the face of a young boy’s autism) http://www.horseboymovie.com/ o How to Dance in Ohio (Young autistic adults learn about social skills before a big dance) http://www.howtodanceinohio.com/ o How to Die in Oregon (Focuses on physician-assisted suicide in Oregon) http://www.howtodieinoregon.com/ o I Can’t Do That But I Can Do This (Kids with learning disabilities discover their abilities) http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/i-cant-do-this-but-i-can-do-that-a- film-for-families-about-learning-differences/synopsis.html o I Have Tourette’s But Tourette’s Doesn’t Have Me (Children and young teens with Tourette’s Syndrome describe their lives) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756661/ o Including Samuel (A film about . The family of Samuel, who has CP, works to include him in all facets of their lives.) http://www.includingsamuel.com/home.aspx o Invitation to Dance (Christian von Tippelskirch and Simi Linton’s film about disability justice told through Simi’s personal story.) http://www.invitationtodancemovie.com/ To order: http://www.kinolorberedu.com/film.php?id=1787 o Journey into Dyslexia (Profile of dyslexic professionals, thriving students and compassionate educators) http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/journey-into- dyslexia/synopsis.html#/documentaries/journey-into-dyslexia/index.html o The Key of G (Man w/ Mowat-Wilson syndrome & independent living) http://www.lateralfilms.com/keyofg/about.html o The Kids are All Right (Online documentary about protests against the MDA Telethon) http://www.thekidsareallright.org/watch.html o King Gimp (Artist w/ CP ; education access) http://www.videopress.umaryland.edu/King_Gimp.html o Lives Worth Living (The disability rights movement in the USA) http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lives-worth-living/ o Loving Lampposts (A film about children and adults “living autistic”) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1533081/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 o Marwencol (Artist with TBI, PTSD creates elaborate miniature scenes depicting WWII) http://www.marwencol.com/ o The Mars Project (A rapper diagnosed with a psychological disorder rejects the label.) http://marsprojectmovie.blogspot.ca/ o Monica & David (A couple with Down syndrome marry and start life together) http://www.monicaanddavid.com/ o A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism (Discusses facilitated communication and the Rapid Prompting Method) http://www.amotherscourage.org/ o Murderball (Athletes with disabilities; Paralympics) http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/706/883 o (African musicians with disabilities) http://www.musicbyprudence.com/mbp/ o My Classic Life as an Artist: A Portrait of Larry Bissonnette (An autistic man becomes an outsider artist after leaving a life in an institution) http://myclassiclifefilm.com/ o My Country (It profiles three people with disabilities whose lives have been shaped by the struggle for equal rights) Watch it here: http://www.ada.gov/mycountryvideo/hi_speed_rp/mycountrydslgallery.htm o My Way to Olympia (A film about the Paralympics, the international sporting event for athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities, by Niko von Glasow, the world’s best-known disabled filmmaker.) http://www.pbs.org/pov/olympia/trailer.php#.VLRGTnuHp-0 o The Nerves of Us (focuses on Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR), a surgery for people with CP) http://rhizotomyfilm.com/The_Nerves_of_Us/The_Movie.html o (An exploration of autism from the point of view of autistic people) http://www.pbs.org/pov/neurotypical/ o No Bigger Than a Minute (Little person describes his life & societal attitudes) http://www.nobiggerthanaminute.com/ o Nobody’s Perfect (German film about people with disabilities caused by Thalidomide) http://www.nobodysperfect-film.de/en/home.html o Normal People Scare Me (Documentary about autism with some short films by autistic kids) http://www.normalfilms.com/NPSM.html o Normal People Scare Me (Interviews with autistic people about their lives) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903000/ o Not Home (About disabled kids forced to live in nursing homes) http://www.nothomedocumentary.com/ o The Other Child (Short documentary about brothers and sisters when one sibling has autism) o A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/a_paralyzing_fear o Petra’s Poem (Toronto artist with Down syndrome) http://www.onf- nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=57811 o Plain Jane the Shockumentary (Jane, a little person with OI, takes an irreverent look at her life.) http://plainjanetheshockumentary.blogspot.com/ o Plan F (Blind man who is an occupational therapist turned auto mechanic) http://www.blogger.com/goog_1178832309 o Praying with Lior (A teen with Down syndrome prepares for his bar mitzvah) http://www.prayingwithlior.com/ o The Punk Syndrome (A film about Finland’s most kick-ass punk rock band, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, a group of musicians with intellectual disabilities.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM58kP_JHkQ o Raising Renee (A woman with an intellectual disability becomes more independent after living with her artist sister) http://westcityfilms.com/raising_renee.html o The Real Helen Keller http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch- online/filmedia/play/2920/The-Real-Helen-Keller o Refrigerator Mothers (Documentary about the blame placed on mothers of autistic children) http://kartemquin.com/films/refrigerator-mothers o Rollaball (About Ghana’s disabled skate soccer team) http://rollaballmovie.com/ o Rolling (Documentary shot from people with disabilities’ wheelchairs) http://www.thirteen.org/rolling/thefilm/ o See What I’m Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary (It follows the journeys of four extraordinary deaf entertainers over the course of a single year as their stories intertwine and culminate in some of the most important events of their lives) www.seewhatimsayingmovie.com o Scarlet Road (Australian documentary about a sex worker who serves people with disabilities.) http://www.scarletroad.com.au/about/ o Shameless: The Art of Disability (Art, activism and disability) http://www.onf- nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51620 o Sins Invalid (A performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.) http://www.sinsinvalid.org/index.html o Smile Pinki (Indian girl’s life is changed when she finally gets surgery for her cleft palate) http://www.smilepinki.com/ o Sound and Fury (Two families, one deaf and one hearing, make decisions about cochlear implants for their children) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/soundandfury/ o Todd Selby x Christine Sun Kim (Christine Sun Kim is a Deaf performance artist working to reclaim the world of sound for herself. Todd Selby is a blind filmmaker) View here:http://disabilitymovies.com/2011/todd-selby-x-christine- sun-kim/%20 o There’s Still Hope For Dreams…a Phamaly Story (It follows a theatrical group comprised entirely of disabled performers.) http://differentfromwhatfilm.com/node/18 o Through Deaf Eyes (200-year history of Deaf life in America) http://www.pbs.org/weta/throughdeafeyes/ o Touch the Sound (A sound journey with internationally known deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie) http://www.touch-the-sound.com/ o Tying Your Own Shoes (Short animated documentary about four adult artists with Down Syndrome) http://www.nfb.ca/film/tying_your_own_shoes_trailer o The Undefeated (Documentary in 1949 from England about men and women disabled in the World Wars) Watch free online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLJk5wEmsx8 o The United States of Autism http://usofautism.com/ o Vectors of Autism (About being an adult with autism in a world that is not autistic) http://www.lauranagle.net/Film.htm o Vital Signs: Crip Culture Talks Back (Disability culture; disabled artists) http://www.fanlight.com/catalog/films/230_vs.php o War Torn 1861-2010 (Documentary about the disabling effects of war) http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/wartorn-1861-2010/index.html o We Are PHAMALy (Follows members of the musical theatre troupe PHAMALy (the Physically Handicapped Amateur Musical Actors League) as they prepare for their production of Once Upon A Mattress) http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/909/1084 o When Billy Broke His Head (A man with TBI explores the disability rights movement) http://www.brainline.org/multimedia/video/transcripts/Billy_Golfus- When_Billy_Broke_His_Head.pdf o When I Walk (Jason DaSilva’s documentary about his life as his MS progresses) http://wheniwalk.com/ o When I’m Not Alone (A transgender disabled man becomes a disability advocate) http://www.whenimnotalonefilm.com/ o Where’s Molly? (A brother finds his disabled sister in an institution after 47 years and re-establishes a loving relationship) http://www.wheresmolly.net/ o Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (Short documentary about the notorious institution for people with disabilities on Staten Island, NY) http://sproutflix.org/node/323 o Wretches and Jabberers (Two autistic men travel the world as advocates) http://www.wretchesandjabberers.org/ o Yellow Brick Road (Theater program for people with intellectual disabilities) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/733/910%20

Narrative Films (This is not a list of films that are all positive portrayals. Sometimes bad disability films spark good discussion.)

• Adam (Autism) • Any Day Now (stars an actor with Down syndrome) • Assisted Living (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/594/771 • Avatar (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1353/1473 • A Beautiful Mind (Mental illness) • Beeswax (Wheelchair user) • Beyond Silence (Deaf community) • Canvas (Mental illness) • Charly (Intellectual disability) • Children of a Lesser God (Deaf community) • The Color of Paradise (Blind person) • The Diving Bell & The Butterfly (Locked-in syndrome) http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/101/101 • Door to Door (cerebral palsy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIUnHFk_xcY • Down Under Mystery Tour (Intellectual disability) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1512775/ • Dumb & Dumber (Blind person) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/895/1070 • The Elephant Man (Neurofibromatosis type I and Proteus syndrome) • Fanaa (Blind person) • Finding Nemo (Memory problem; disabled fin) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/873/1048 • Forrest Gump (Intellectual disability; amputee) • Freaks (Multiple disabilities) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/581/758 • Frida (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1274/1304 • Gattaca (Wheelchair use) • Girlfriend (Stars an actor with Down syndrome) Watch here for $5: https://www.thewatchbox.com/movies/2-girlfriend • Harvey Krumpet (Tourette’s syndrome, Alzheimer’s) • The King’s Speech (Stuttering) • Mabul – The Flood (Autism) • Margarita, with a straw (Cerebral palsy) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2929690/ • Mary and Max (Asperger’s, obesity) • The Mighty (Morquio’s syndrome) • Million Dollar Baby (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/590/767 • Mozart and the Whale (Autism) • Music Within (CP; hearing loss) • Musical Chairs (Wheelchair use; amputee) • My Left Foot (CP) Longmore, P. K. (1990). The glorious rage of Christy Brown. Disability Studies Quarterly, 10, 23-25. • My Name is Khan (Autism) • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Multiple disabilities) http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/149/149 • The Other Sister (Intellectual disability) • Passion Fish (Wheelchair user) • Quid Pro Quo (Wheelchair user) • Rain Man (Autism) • Ray (Blind person) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/591/768 • The Ringer (Intellectual disabilities) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/movies/11bauer.html?_r=1 • Rory O’Shea Was Here (CP) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/703/880 • Rust and Bone (Amputee) • Saved (Wheelchair user) • The Sea Inside (Wheelchair use) • Seabiscuit (Visual impairment, cane use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/908/1083 • The Sessions (biopic of writer Mark O’Brien, who used an iron lung) • Shallow Hal (CP; obesity) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/895/1070 • Shine (Mental illness) • Silver Linings Playbook (bipolar disorder) • Simon Birch (Little person) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1014/1227 • Sling Blade (Intellectual disability) • Snowcake (Autism) • The Soloist (Mental Illness) • The Station Agent (Little person) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/576/753 • Stuck on You (Conjoined twins) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/895/1070,%20http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/494/671 • The Tic Code (Tourette’s syndrome) • There’s Something about Mary (Intellectual disability) http://dsq- sds.org/article/view/895/1070 • Tropic Thunder (Intellectual disability) http://www.disaboom.com/movies/quottropic- thunder-hollywood-still-doesnt-get-it/ • Welcome to Me (bipolar disorder) • What’s Eating Gilbert Grape(Intellectual disability)Whole (BIID) • X-Men, X2 (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/874/1049 • Yo, Tambien (Down syndrome)

Scripted TV

• American Horror Story (Down syndrome, physical disability) • Bojack Horseman (mental illness) • Boston Legal (Little person; autism) • Breaking Bad (CP; cancer) • CSI (Amputee; hearing loss) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/921/1096 • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (mental illness) • Deadwood (CP) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/593/770 • Empire (mental illness) • Family Guy (Wheelchair user) • Friday Night Lights (Wheelchair user) • Game of Thrones (Little person, mobility impairment, amputee) • Girls (OCD) • Glee (Down syndrome; wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1354 • Growing Up Fisher (Blindness) • Heroes (Wheelchair use) • House (Cane use; substance abuse) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1583/1549 • The Inspectors (Wheelchair use) http://www.newmobility.com/2015/11/the-inspectors/ • Ironside (Wheelchair use) • Jericho (Deaf person) http://www.meryl.net/ci/archives/004780.html • Joan of Arcadia (Wheelchair user) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/499/676 • The L Word (Deaf person) https://bethhaller.wordpress.com/l-word-nca-paper/ • Legit (Wheelchair use) • Life Goes On (Stars an actor with Down syndrome) • Life’s Too Short (Little person) http://www.hbo.com/lifes-too-short/index.html • Lost (Wheelchair use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/540/717 • Michael J. Fox Show (Parkinson’s) • Monk (OCD) • Nip/Tuck(Multiple disabilities; Little person) • Parenthood (Autistic child) • Pelswick (Wheelchair user) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/431/608 • Private Practice (Wheelchair use; substance abuse) • Quads (Wheelchair users) • The Secret Life of the American Teenager (Down syndrome) • Sesame Street (Wheelchair user) • Silent Witness (Wheelchair user) British show so may not be available in the USA. • South Park (Wheelchair use; walker use) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/628/805 • Speechless (CP, AAC use) http://abc.go.com/shows/speechless • Switched at Birth (Deaf community) • (Autism) http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1659/1610 • United States of Tara (Mental illness)

Reality TV & Web series

• The Amazing Race (Little person; Deaf person; Autism) • Born This Way (young adults with Down syndrome) http://www.aetv.com/shows/born- this-way • Dancing with the Stars (Amputee; Deaf person) • The Disability Film Challenge films on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd0PQTVAsQpJCPOm4_QYqqQ • Extreme Home Makeover (Many episodes make over home for disabled adult or child) • Fridays web series (Two Deaf best friends tell the stories of their lives) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1885707914/fridays-the-web-series • How’s Your News? (All stars have intellectual disabilities) http://www.mtv.com/shows/hows_your_news/series.jhtml • The Specials (UK Web series about group home of adults with intellectual disabilities) http://www.the-specials.com/home • Last Comic Standing (2006 winner, Josh Blue, has CP) http://www.joshblue.com/ • The Little Couple (Little people) http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/little-couple • Little People, Big World http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/817/992 • Little Women LA (Little people) • Little Women NYC (Little people) • My Deaf Family http://www.youtube.com/user/MyDeafFamily • My Gimpy Life Web series (wheelchair user) https://www.youtube.com/user/MyGimpyLife • Push Girls, (A group of female friends who are wheelchair users) http://www.sundancechannel.com/push-girls/ • Riding Shotgun with Zach Anner web series (Comedian with CP travels and has adventures) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKid_CNBQaE7cw-MQX- kjiupEFmsijqgh • The Specials web series (The lives of a group of people with intellectual disabilities who live in a British group home. The show is told from their perspective.) http://www.the- specials.com/ • Stare at Shannon web series (Wheelchair-using actor/comedian Shannon DeVido’s show about her life) https://www.youtube.com/user/shannonleigh327/featured