Books can be found as ebooks via the links provided or as print items at the Library and Academic Resources Center. Stop by the Circulation Desk (front desk of the LARC) and we will be glad to help you locate or access these books.
The Effective Teacher's Guide to Sensory and Physical Impairments by 
Life on Wheels: The A to Z Guide to Living Fully with Mobility Issues by 
Disability and the Internet by 
Disability and Popular Culture by Useful For: Getting Started. Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals. Includes full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. See also Periodicals Index Online, another excellent multidisciplinary database with a focus on arts/humanities and social sciences.
Useful For: Representations of disability and/or disabled persons in the mass media, speech/language-related disabilities, etc. This database combines two communication resources: CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. For more on speech and language-related disabilities, see Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA).
Useful For: Disability issues in education, learning disorders, mainstreaming, etc. See also the database ERIC, which includes similar materials as well as ERIC Digests (short reports on topics of current interest in Education.)
Useful For: Intersections of disability with women's and gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, etc.
Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Useful For: Excellent information on medical conditions and diseases. The National Library of Medicine's Medline database provides abstracts and indexing for about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, psychiatry, medical education and health care planning and administration.
Useful For: Information related to psychological aspects of disability, developmental, communicative and mental disorders, attitudes about disabilities, etc.
Useful For: Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
Useful For: Information related to sociological aspects of disability. The index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus. Also contains abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, in addition to information for 1,890 "priority" and "selective coverage" journals. Extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.
Critical Disability Discourse (CDD) is a bilingual, interdisciplinary journal from York University's Critical Discourse Studies Graduate Student Association, publishing articles that focus on experiences of disability.
Official newsletter for DHA, "an international non-profit organization that promotes the study of disabilities. This includes, but is not limited to, the history of individuals or groups with disabilities, perspectives on disability, representations/ constructions of disability, policy and practice history, teaching, theory, and Disability and related social and civil rights movements."
International disability rights news service.
The mandate of the IJDCR is to build the knowledge base of critical enquiry at the intersection of disability, community and rehabilitation, among practitioners, consumers and researchers. The Journal seeks to present both regional and internationally comparative voices and perspectives from Canada and internationally. Published by International Disability Research Centre on Social & Economic Innovation.
Founded in 1998, this journal promotes interdisciplinary research about psychological, social, educational, rehabilitative and neuro psychological aspects of the human life span.
National Center on Physical Activity and Disability (NCPAD) Newsletter
RDS is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary, international journal published by the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Accessibility Services provides equal access to higher education. Visit the link to find out more information about these services and accomdations.
National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
ADA Home Page: Information and Technical Assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act
"The federal government's one-stop Web site for people with disabilities, their families, employers, veterans and service members, workforce professionals and many others."
More than 20 major reports about disability issues highlight this site from the NCD, an independent federal agency that makes recommendations to the president and Congress.
ODEP also runs the Job Accommodation Network, which includes links to publications and web resources, and the ADA Library.
This is a pdf primer on how to write alt text for digital images so that screen readers can navigate pages with images. Created by Nicole Smith of the Kennedy Center.
Excellent guidelines on how to prepare accessible webinars and presentations from the Department of Very Special Arts and Accessibility from the Kennedy Center.
With the rapid rise of telework, it’s more important than ever to make sure virtual presentations are accessible. These efforts allow all participants, particularly people with disabilities, to effectively engage with presented content.
Use this checklist to make sure your virtual meetings and presentations are accessible.
A quick guide to multimedia accessibility and closed captioning.