These resources are related to the Center for Ethics programs for Diasbility Awareness Week (1-5 November 2004).

For more information on the program visit the Center for Ethics website.

Note: The Trexler Library is home to The Dr. Carl F. Odhner Disabilities Resources Collection. You can follow the link to search for materials in the collection. Even more items can be found by searching the regular library catalog using your designated keywords or subject headings.

Reference Works

General Disabilities

Accardo, Pasquale J. and Barbara Y. Whitman, eds. Dictionary of developmental disabilities terminology, 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brooks Pub., 2002.
Ref. 618.9285889 A169d

Alliance for Technology Access. Computer and web resources for people with disabilities : a guide to exploring today's assistive technology, 3rd ed. Alameda, CA: Hunter House Publishers, 2000.
Ref. 004.087 A436c

Dell Orto, Arthur E. and Robert P. Marinelli, eds. Encyclopedia of disability and rehabilitation. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1995.
Ref. 362.403 E56o

Matthews, Dawn D., ed. Disabilities sourcebook: basic consumer health information about physical and psychiatric disabilities. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2000.
Ref. 362.4 M438d

Pelka, Fred. The ABC-CLIO companion to the disability rights movement. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Ref. 323.3 P384a

Sardegna, Jill. The encyclopedia of blindness and vision impairment, 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
Ref. 362.4103 E56o

A woman's guide to coping with disability, 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: Resources for Rehabilitation, 1997.
Ref. 362.4082 W872g

Learning Disabilties

The complete learning disabilities directory. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Pub., 1994-
Ref. 371.9025 C737L 2000

Turkington, Carol and Joseph R. Harris. The encyclopedia of learning disabilities. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
Ref. 371.903 T939e

Swanson, H. Lee, Karen R. Harris, and Steve Graham. Handbook of learning disabilities. New York: Guilford Press, 2003.
Ref. 371.926 S972h

Finding Articles: Databases and Indexes

Topical Databases:

Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Use this database to find U.S. federal and state law, case law, regulations, etc…surrounding disability.

Sociological Abstracts (SocAbs)
This sociology database is an excellent source for finding articles on how people with disabilities interact with their society, and how the general society interacts with them. Also, use this database to find articles on public policy relating to disability.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
Excellent source for finding articles on women and disability.

Health Source
Full-text database that is focused on medical, health, and public health information. HealthSource contains both scholarly and popular articles.

MLA
This literature database is useful for finding criticism and articles about representations of the disabled.

Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
Indexes, Abstracts, Citations and Full text publications covering most disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
General news magazines, periodicals, international news, etc…

OmniFile (WilsonWeb)
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content--indexing, abstracts, and full text--from six of Wilson's full-text databases.

Subject Headings

Using these Library of Congress Subject Headings in your searches will help you obtain more relevant information from databases and the library catalog:

Aged people with disabilities
Artists with disabilities
Blind
Blindness
Children with disabilities
Computers and people with disabilities
Dance for people with disabilities
Deafness
Developmental disabilities
Developmentally disabled
Dancers with disabilities
Disabled veterans
Disability studies
Learning disabilities
Minority people with disabilities
Parents with disabilities
People with mental disabilities
People with social disabilities
People with visual disabilities
Physical education for people with disabilities
Sex instruction for people with disabilities
Social work with people with disabilities
Sociology of disability
Sports for people with disabilities
Students with disabilities
Women with disabilities
Youth with disabilities

Selected works from the main collection:

Butler, Ruth and Hester Parr, eds. Mind and body spaces : geographies of illness, impairment, and disability. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Main Collection 362.4 B986m

Fahy, Thomas and Kimball King, eds. Peering behind the curtain : disability, illness, and the extraordinary body in contemporary theater. New York : Routledge, 2002.
Main Collection 812.509 F158p

Mitchell, David T. and Sharon L. Snyder, eds. The body and physical difference : discourses of disability. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Main Collection 362.4 M681b

Oliver, Michael. Understanding disability : from theory to practice. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Main Collection 362.4 O48u

Snyder, Sharon L., Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, eds. Disability studies : enabling the humanities. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
Main Collection 305.90816 S675d

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Main Collection 813.009 T484e

Wendell, Susan. The rejected body : feminist philosophical reflections on disability. New York: Routledge, 1996.
Main Collection 362.4082 W469r

Selected Websites

Governmental and International Organizations

Americans with Disabilites Act Homepage
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm

National Council on Disability
http://www.ncd.gov/

Associations and Centers

Centre for Disability Studies (UK)
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/

Disability Resources
http://soeweb.syr.edu/thechp/disres.htm
An annotated listing of Disability Studies resources maintained by Syracuse University's Disability Studies program.

Society for Disability Studies
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds/

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