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…
Goals
Goals of Disability History Week initiative include:
- To establish a Disability History Week in New York State and other states.
- To establish a National Disability History Week:
- Establish a website to be used as a resource across the nation
- Develop lesson plans to be offered through the Museum of disABILITY History, so that schools will have additional resources to use during Disability History Week.
- Expand the Museum of disABILITY History's offerings, including timelines, photographs and artifacts.
- Increase awareness of other resources available within New York State and across the nation.
- To provide a unified message to school students across the country about another aspect of our nation's history, and to create a forum for meaningful discussion.