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    Recent legislation (2024) requires disability history to be incorporated in the curricula of West Virginia Schools during Disability History Week. As longtime advocates can attest, this is HUGE. 

    The West Virginia Department of Education has assembled a list of state and national resources: Disability History Week - West Virginia Department of Education (wvde.us)

    If you could add a resource to this list, what would you add?

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    Wow! This page is a great resource! You could consider linking to the more narrow Library of Congress Disability Employment Awareness Month, which has a research guide among other resources. 

    A sign language interpreter and judge stand in the jury box signing with a juror.
    Detail of "Deaf Juror", February 17, 1984. Colored pencil, pastel, graphite, and porous point pen on ochre paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) LC-DIG-ppmsca-50997 © Marilyn Church. Gift of the family of Marilyn Church. Used by Permission of Marilyn Church.
     

    I had forgotten about this. Thank you!

    "Infusing Disability History into the Classroom," by   Rich Cairn  and Graham Warder and the Reform to Equal Rights K-12: Disability History Curriculum.

    Absolutely. Rich's resources are always amazing!

    Matt - This is outstanding! Thanks for keeping us all posted on this new law. And thanks for updating the great resource list. 

    Another really valuable link to add is the Emerging America page: Disability History through Primary Sources. It serves as a portal to scores of curricula, collections of primary sources (featuring the Library of Congress), media, and other resources. (Thanks, Julie and Matt for the kind words about the Reform to Equal Rights curriculum. It uses more than 100 primary sources from the Library of Congress.) 

    On the Emerging America site we keep a current list of state mandates and standards for disability history. If anyone out there knows of a state law on disability history that we should add to the list, please comment here. (West Virginia just went on the site!)

    - Rich 

    Thanks! I taught a lesson about Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins from the NYC Schools' Hidden Voices project that I discovered on your website. I found it to be an excellent curriculum that includes many primary sources from the Library of Congress.

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