Presented in Partnership with The Walt Disney Company Read the transcript Disney Channel’s Emmy Award-nominated series Big City Greens is breaking barriers when it comes to ensuring authentic deaf representation. In the “Quiet Please” episode, the Green family visits the city library hoping to find a book that will spark Cricket’s interest in reading, but [click to continue...]
Date: Monday, September 28 Time: 10:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. CT / 8:30 p.m. MT / 7:30 p.m. PT We came together to celebrate the bright possibility of this new year during a virtual Zoom break fast.
Read the transcript Download Accessible PowerPoint Did you know that people with disabilities are significantly MORE likely to start their own businesses than people without disabilities? Self-employment can solve issues of transportation, flexible scheduling, and enable talented people with disabilities to both thrive and help their communities. Our nation’s vocational rehabilitation (VR) system is a [click to continue...]
Read the transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many synagogues and communities of worship to move at least part of their high holiday services, if not all, to an online format. The Jewish world is spending significant time and energy determining how to create a meaningful, spiritual experience online, and we [click to continue...]
Read the transcript Download the accessible PowerPoint While our main focus is on doing inclusion right, at some point your organization may need to know little bit about its legal rights and obligations. This session will cover those topics, including the special sensitivities and limitations applying to religious organizations. Panelists Include Moderator: Matan Koch – [click to continue...]
Read the Transcript Download the Accessible PowerPoint We shared how to take your deep commitment to Diversity and Inclusion and make it a reality. Learn from some truly successful leaders as they share the secret of their Diversity and Inclusion success, exploring the successful disability initiatives of which they’ve been apart, and looking at their [click to continue...]
RespectAbility Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Over the course of five days – Monday, July 27 – Friday, July 31 – we hosted daily webinars that were free and fully accessible, with an ASL interpreter and live captions. This program was made possible with support by Comcast NBCUniversal, Murray/Reese Foundation, Sony Pictures [click to continue...]
Watch Full Recording with Open Captions Download Transcript Download Closing Keynote Slide Deck At its core we recognize that the work of the next 10 years for the ADA will be a series of partnerships. In the earlier sessions we explored the partnership between educators, parents and students, the partnership between employers and employees, the [click to continue...]
Watch Full Recording with Open Captions Download Transcript Public Policies to Support the Future of Work https://vimeo.com/453441386 To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ADA, Philip Kahn-Pauli, RespectAbility’s Policy and Practices Director, hosts a panel of disability employment policy experts focused on building a better future and successful ways to get more people with disabilities into [click to continue...]
Download Transcript PART 1: Respecting The Ability: Ensuring Authentic Representation in Entertainment Industry With one-in-five people having a disability in the U.S. today, the lack of representation – just 3.1 percent on screen and even less in children’s television (less than one percent) – means that millions of people are unable to see themselves in media today. RespectAbility [click to continue...]
