Theme: Advancing Access and Equity: Then, Now, and Next
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the purpose of this observance is to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America's workers with disabilities. This year's theme is Advancing Access and Equity: Then, Now, and Next.
National Disability Employment Awareness Month traces its history back to 1945 when Congress enacted a law declaring the first week in October of each year "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week." In 1962, the word "physically" was removed to acknowledge all types of disabilities and then in 1988, Congress expanded the week to a month and changed the name to National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
People with disabilities are a diverse group that includes people with sensory, physical, and mental conditions. Disabilities cross lines of age, ethnicity, sex, race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. Below is a sampling of LRC books in support of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. These books are either available for check out from the LRC or can be accessed online as eBooks through our EBSCOhost eBook database subscription (login credentials are posted on Blackboard under Services or see LRC staff).
eBooks available through EBSCOhost database
Disability, augmentative communication, and the American dream: A qualitative inquiry by ISBN: 9780739188941Publication Date: 2013-12-12
Disability is not inability : A quest for inclusion and participation of people with disability in society by ISBN: 9789996060809Publication Date: 2020
Financial Incentives for Americans with Disabilities by ISBN: 9781607415312Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Making computers accessible: Disability rights and digital technology by ISBN: 9781421416465Publication Date: 2015-06-01
No right to be idle: The invention of disability, 1840s–1930s by ISBN: 9781469624891Publication Date: 2017-04-03
Racism by another name: Black students, overrepresentation, and the carceral state of special education by ISBN: 9781648024474Publication Date: 2021-06-01
Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity by ISBN: 9780190262075Publication Date: 2016-01-26
What we have done: An oral history of the disability rights movement by ISBN: 9781558499188Publication Date: 2012-02-01
Books available in the LRC and which are on display during October
Disability pride: Dispatches from a post-ADA world by Call Number: HV1553 .M3725 2022ISBN: 9780807036457Publication Date: 2022-11-29
Standing Together: The inspirational story of a wounded warrior and enduring love by Call Number: HQ801 .E936 2019ISBN: 9780825444975Publication Date: 2019-06-25
Access America Guide to the Southwestern National Parks: An atlas and guide for visitors with disabilities by Call Number: E160 .A28 1989ISBN: 9781555844028Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Body Shop: Recuperating from Vietnam by Call Number: UB363 .B76 1973ISBN: 0812816137Publication Date: 1973-01-01
Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War north by Call Number: E621 .H324 2019ISBN: 9780820355184Publication Date: 2019-07-01
Every day Is a gift by Call Number: E840.8 .D83 A3 2021ISBN: 9781538718506Publication Date: 2021-03-30
The Americans with Disabilities Act: A review of best practices by Call Number: HD7256 .U5 J66 1993ISBN: 0814423507Publication Date: 1992-03-14
Tough as they come by Call Number: DS371.413 .M55 2015ISBN: 9781101904800Publication Date: 2016-10-25
Some of the information on this page was borrowed from the Office of Disability Employment Policy page on National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute page for 2023 National Disability Employment Awareness Month.