Dismantling Ableism and Practicing Allyship

In this episode, we explore a wealth of readily accessible resources and practical tips to go beyond just acknowledging ableism and eliminating ableist behavior, to actively supporting our disabled friends and colleagues. Show Resources: Bias Training: UW implicit bias training, which includes disability material (this is now required to be on search committees and is freely available to the UW community). Disability Attitudes Implicit Association Test (DA-IAT) freely available at Project Implicit hosted by Harvard. Project Implicit: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.htm Resource Guide for Training on Disability Competence: A resource guide for PT and PTA faculty, clinicians, and students (December 2021) Learn about disability identity from a diversity perspective: Davis, Lennard J. (2013) "Introduction: Normality, power, and culture." The disability studies reader 4 : 1-14. Stella Young. “I am not your inspiration, thank you very much.” TED Talk (2014). Maysoon Zayid. “I have 99 problems… palsy is just one.” Ted Talk (2013) Adams-Spink, Geoff. “Social Model of Disability Animation.” (Nov. 7 2011). UW Resources: Bree Callahan, Tri-Campus ADA Coordinator, leading equity and compliance efforts for ADA/section 504 The D Center – UW Seattle campus Deaf and Disability Cultural Center: Student Disability Commission: https://careers.uw.edu/organizations/asuw-student-disability-commission/ DO-IT: https://www.washington.edu/doit/ Disability Studies Program: https://disabilitystudies.washington.edu/ CREATE: https://create.uw.edu/ Other Groups of interest: Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science Education https://www.hsmcoalition.org/ Stanford Medicine Alliance for Disability, Identity, and Equity https://med.stanford.edu/smadie/about.html Disability Rights Washington: https://www.disabilityrightswa.org/