Disability advocates across the country are mobilizing to help create understanding and celebrate the history of individuals with disabilities! Since West Virginia passed the first…
National Disability History Week initiative
Disability advocates across the country are mobilizing to help create understanding and celebrate the history of individuals with disabilities! Since West Virginia passed the first Disability History Week bill in 2006, fourteen states have also passed similar legislation, earmarking time dedicated to the celebration of disability history and awareness. Now is the time to take this to the national level! The Museum of disABILITY History is advocating for the establishment of a National Disability History Week to be celebrated the third full week in October. National organizations have held or are holding discussions in support of this initiative including the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID). A National Disability History Week will provide an invaluable opportunity to promote an understanding and acceptance that individuals with disabilities are PEOPLE first, not to be defined by their disability, and most importantly to include this important piece of our nation’s history in public school curricula.