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Let’s Explore Disability History Month

Read:

• We Move Together (ages 6+)
• William Hoy Story (ages 4-8)
• All The Way To The Top (ages 4-8)

Discuss:

• How has the work of disability rights activists made your everyday life easier?
  • In the way your home is built?
  • In your favorite activities at school?
  • In how you play your favorite sports?
• How are these spaces and activities still inaccessible to some people? What would it take to make them more accessible?
• What obstacles are we afraid to run into if we tried to make these spaces more accessible?

Take Action

• Register for free bystander intervention training to Support People With Disabilities In Public Spaces on November 9, 2022 via Right To Be.

Additional resources to dig deeper into this topic:

• Tenacious Instigators – Kids Books Celebrating Disabled Heroes
• 4 Ways to Fight Ableism With Kids Books: #LiberatingWebinars
• More stories of Disability History for Kids
• #OwnVoices Kidlit Authors with Disabilities
• Normalizing Disabled Characters in Kidlit
• They ALL Eat Worms In China – how racism & ableism uphold each other in kidlit
• For the Luminary Braintrust: Understanding Disability Inclusion with the Addams Family