Wonderscape
Understanding Hearing and Visual Disabilities
This video discusses hearing and visual disabilities, highlighting various tools and symbols that aid accessibility for individuals with these impairments. It explains that hearing loss can vary in degree and may be mitigated with...
Wonderscape
Embracing Our Differences: a Lesson on Abilities and Disabilities
This visit discusses the similarities and differences among people, emphasizing that while we all have unique physical and personal characteristics, we share common desires like being understood. It specifically introduces the concept of...
Wonderscape
Start Smart: Understanding People with Disabilities
This video explores the concept of disabilities, focusing on physical disabilities and how they can impact a person's ability to walk, talk, hear, see, or touch. It emphasizes that disabilities are just one aspect of a person and that...
Wonderscape
What is the Universal Disability Access Symbol?
The universal disability access symbol is an icon recognized globally to indicate accessible facilities for individuals with disabilities. This symbol is commonly found in parking lots, public transportation, and restrooms, signaling...
Wonderscape
Adaptive Tools and Accessibility
Adaptive tools are specialized equipment designed to assist individuals with disabilities in performing tasks and engaging in activities that they enjoy, such as sports, visiting parks, or going to the beach, by making these activities...
The Business Professor
Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in Employment
This video provides an overview of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), its definition of disability, and how it prohibits discrimination against job applicants and employees based on disability. The video discusses the...
Seven Dimensions
4 Lessons about Inclusion and Unconscious Bias
4 Lessons About Inclusion and Unconscious Bias is a video that explains unconscious biases – the prejudices we have and our tendency to make judgments about individuals or groups without being fully aware of what we are doing. Even the...
Curated Video
Why Americans with disabilities struggle to vote
Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Up to 3 million more people would vote on election day if Americans with disabilities had better access to the polls. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and...
Curated Video
50 Million Americans live with disabilities – so why ignore their vote?
Americans with disabilities want change in 2016. It wouldn't hurt if Donald Trump would stop insulting them too. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand...
Schooling Online
English Essentials - Next Level Knowledge - 3 Ways to Structure a Comparative Essay (Stage 6, Years/Grades 11-12)
In today’s lesson, we’ll show you three different structures for a comparative essay: block, alternating and integrated. We’ll guide you through each of these essay structures using the same question and thesis from our previous lesson....
Science360
Computational behavioral science develops tools, methods to reach children with autism
Lexie is an active, healthy 2-year-old and already lending a hand, or more specifically her wrist to science. She's helping researchers test sensors designed to gauge something particularly difficult to measure scientifically --...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Suellen Inwood - Teachers Make a Difference - Jamie & Rebecca
Sullen Inwood is the Director of Easton Country Day School.She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Disorders/Learning Disabilities at Northwestern University and her Master’s in Education for Pre-K – 12 at Southern Connecticut....
The Guardian
The fight
People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up with being ignored, a group of them march across the Andes to the seat of the government in La Paz, asking to speak to President Evo Morales. They are...
Curated Video
An Introduction to Pennhurst State School and Hospital
This introduction to the series about the Pennhurst mental health facility, former residents, professionals, and parents discuss the historical and ongoing challenges in treating and integrating individuals with mental differences....
Global Ethics Solutions
Respect and Fair Treatment: A Diverse Workplace
Diversity can mean a lot of things in the context of the workplace. What kinds of diversity are there in the workplace? What are the goals of diversity? How can we be collaborative and unified, yet be diverse in the workplace? These and...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yonty Friesem - Digital Empathy
Yonty (Jonathan) Friesem is the Associate Director at the Media Education Lab and an Assistant Professor of multimedia production faculty at the department of communication, Central Connecticut State University. He received his PhD from...
Mazz Media
Genetic Diseases
In this live-action program viewers will learn that a monogenic disorder is a genetic disease caused by small-scale genetic differences that cause the malfunction of a single gene and that many diseases result from such genetic...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Ronni Abergel - The Human Library
Ronni Abergel, the founder of the Human Library, explains the concept behind the initiative. The Human Library functions as a platform where individuals can engage in conversations with others who volunteer to share their life...
World Science Festival
This is Your Brain On Neuroprosthetics
Paralyzed patients are starting to walk with the aid of exoskeletons and doctors are testing artificial retinas in the blind thanks to neuroprosthetics: surgical brain implants that restore some function in patients with severe sensory,...
Understood
Kids With Dyslexia, ADHD ("Try Smarter, Not Try Harder")
When kids struggle in school, they may be told to “try harder.” But many kids with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning and attention issues are already trying their hardest. The better advice, according to David Flink, cofounder and CEO...
SciShow
What a Cochlear Implant Actually Sounds Like
If you're not hearing impaired, you may wonder what it's like to wear a cochlear implant—what does it actually sound like? Unlike what you may think, cochlear implants don't generate sound like a hearing aid would. Instead, they actually...
TED-Ed
What is Dyslexia?
One in five people are affected by dyslexia, yet many do not understand what this identification actually means. Explore the varied ways in which dyslexia affects individuals, and learn about the widespread neurodiversity that exists in...
National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability
How To: Hop, Pop, and Jump (Using a Wheelchair): Part One
My disability might change the way I do things, but it never diminishes my independence. An inspirational young woman takes viewers through her tips and tricks for how to make any situation accessible while in a...
National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability
How To: Choose a Wheelchair
If you have a student who must use a wheelchair throughout the school day, you may want to offer this video as a resource for both their enrichment as well as a means of support. Mary Allison Cook, a young 27-year old woman who has used...