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Here are my top choices, out of hundreds of Scriptures that mention impairments and disabilities, to help us understand the Biblical basis of the ADA and the ICF-2.
This article focuses on why churches should fully adhere to the Americans With Disabilities Act and mentions some of the obstructions that need to be overcome.
Disability discrimination by churches and other ministries still diminishes the participation and the core rights of people with disabilities.
This article addresses socializing issues for people who are blind or have low vision. It's presented in a format that names six common challenges and offers solutions for each one.
In listening to Chris, and in accommodating myself to his needs, I have learned a lot about him, about his disability, and about myself.
We started captioning videos for people with disabilities. It turns out this also helps a bunch of other people.
College for Students with Disabilities
Turning Barriers into Bridges presents Biblical, legal, and cultural reasons for making church communications accessible, and it provides specific guidelines to do so.
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in adults around the world, so most congregations probably include—or will soon include—stroke survivors. And the implications for churches are significant.
Many nondisabled people feel anxious in the presence of someone with a disability, so they say nothing and avoid contact. In this publication you will find suggestions that will help educate people about communicating with people with disabilities.
Information for people with disabilities considering college, including legal rights and how to access campus resources.
Knowbility's mission is to ensure barrier-free I.T.—supporting the independence of people with disabilities by promoting the use and improving the availability of accessible information technology.
We often think about accessibility in terms of buildings, but website design can enhance or detract from usefulness too. This evaluator helps webmasters discern what they are doing well and what needs to be improved.
While the Internet has opened up a vast amount of information to all computer users, computer screen reading software has also given me, as a blind person, access to that source of information and communication.
Chris said that when his parents gave him his first voice synthesizer, he went from not speaking to talking in complete sentences in one day. I praise God for Christian leaders like Chris who can speak so articulately. He talks about disability, of course, but more importantly, he talks about what it means to be human.
Lighthouse International has produced guidelines for print, electronic, and web communication that will help anyone who wants to make their church resources more useful.
RoboBraille is a free, non-commercial provider of document conversions for accessibility.
Check out these tips to use computers for inclusive worship.
A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students from their Fluid Interfaces Group created a combination of hardware and software which allows people to use the movement of their hands in the air to interface with a computer. A wearable computer would allow a person who uses ASL to sign to a hearing person, and the computer would interpret the message into spoken English.
Every year at Christmastime, to my great pleasure, my wife gives me a puzzle-a-day calendar. Recently, one of the puzzles substituted each word in a familiar proverb with a rhyming word. The puzzle was to guess the proverb. For example, “Many guys sound ghoulish,” becomes “Penny wise, pound foolish.” Another was “Sniff a true wit’s bare pit.” Know the proverb? I’ll tell you the answer at the end of this post.