Library Accessibility Training Portal

The Disability Cultural Center at UIC Library Guide has lists of books, journals and other media related to the disability community.

Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities structured by what Black feminist scholars call the matrix of domination. Intersecting inequalities are manifest at all levels of the design process. Design justice focuses on the ways that design reproduces, is reproduced by, and/or challenges the matrix of domination (white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and settler colonialism). Design justice is also a growing community of practice that aims to ensure a more equitable distribution of design’s benefits and burdens; fair and meaningful participation in design decisions; and recognition of community based design traditions, knowledge, and practices. (1 hour)

Overview of the medical and social model of disability and how these models influence identity. Discussion of how the individual experience shapes what specific identifying language individuals use, as well as the recent empowerment movement to take back the narrative of disability. This facilitated discussion will address how individuals with physical, mental, medical, cognitive, intellectual, and psychological disabilities may relate to or oppose these viewpoints. 1 hour. From Accessibility Summer Camp

Participants will expand their awareness of disability, learn to promote accessibility, and consider how to contribute to a positive climate through their beliefs, behaviors, and communications.

Speaker: Stephanie Rosen, Accessibility Strategist and Librarian for Disability Studies at University of Michigan Library. 1 hour.

Join the University of Central Florida Academic Affairs Diversity Taskforce at a Diversity Speaker Series virtual event featuring Jax Rogero, Office of Student Involvement. The presentation explores myths and misconceptions around certain disabilities, examines implicit bias supported by real and fictional events, and addresses the discourse around "fad" or over diagnosing of certain disabilities. 1 hour.

In recent years, autism has been more broadly defined than it previously had been, and we now understand autism to be an issue of overstimulated nerves — a problem which may be moderate or extreme and which is associated with ADHD, OCD, and other nerve-and-brain differences – which means the autistic person responds differently than the allistic one. Because of more comprehensive support in the schools, more autistic students are attending college and entering the workforce. As a result, their presence in higher ed and in the broader community is growing, in numbers or in visibility or both, and that means we are seeing more people with autism in libraries. This presentation focuses on some of the ways in which autistic users’ communication and study needs are different from those of allistic users, and what you might need to know in your interactions with them as library users or as employees. We’ll talk about hypersensitivities and how they shape behavior and about different perceptions regarding ambiguities, as well as some things you might want to know about social interaction with autistic users. 1 hour.

UIC Professor Kate Floros interviews DCC Director Margaret Fink about disability culture (1 hour).