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Tina Calabro and Holly Dick, Consortium steering committee members, spoke recently about the history of disability rights to teen volunteers at the Friendship Circle in Squirrel Hill. The teens have … [Read more...] about Teen volunteers at Friendship Circle learn about the history of disability in the U.S

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania devoted the most recent edition of their Legacies magazine to disability history. As with so many minority groups, people with disabilities have been largely … [Read more...] about Historical Society of Pennsylvania publishes disability history magazine

The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University presents the documentary Valuing Lives: Wolf Wolfensberger and the Principle of Normalization from 9:30 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, December 19 at Rodef … [Read more...] about Valuing Lives documentary, panel discussion will be Dec. 19

In 1868, young Henry Bell came to Third United Presbyterian Church’s Mission Academy School. Henry was African American and deaf. The pastor solicited Pittsburgher William Drum, who was also deaf and … [Read more...] about Consortium members visit Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

The Pennhurst State School and Hospital in eastern Pennsylvania was shut down 30 years ago this November, but decades earlier, exposures of mistreatment and abuse made it an early setting in the … [Read more...] about Event commemorates 30th anniversary of closing of Pennhurst institution