Disability History Month: Disability, Health and Wellbeing
The Collection
To mark this year's Disability History Month, the Library has created a new digital Collection in collaboration with LTSU Disabled Students' Officer Caitlin Fieldhouse.
The theme this month is Disability, Health and Well Being, and the online collection has been curated to cover a range of topics affecting disabled people throughout history and in the present day, along with books written by people with disabilities.
The collection includes ebooks and books available in the Library. We also have a physical display of titles in that can be browsed and borrowed.
You can also access many articles on the subject of disability and health using Library Search.
What is UKDHM?
Disability History Month runs from mid-November to mid-December every year and covers HIV/AIDS Day (1st December), International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd Dec.) and International Human Rights Day (10th December).
It also follows on directly from Anti-Bullying Week (19th to 18th November) which is important as 2.5 times as much bullying is recorded towards disabled young people as compared to non-disabled (70-80% of young disabled people claim to have been bullied in school and college).*
Disability History Month: Disability, Health and Wellbeing
The Collection
To mark this year's Disability History Month, the Library has created a new digital Collection in collaboration with LTSU Disabled Students' Officer Caitlin Fieldhouse.
The theme this month is Disability, Health and Well Being, and the online collection has been curated to cover a range of topics affecting disabled people throughout history and in the present day, along with books written by people with disabilities.
The collection includes ebooks and books available in the Library. We also have a physical display of titles in that can be browsed and borrowed.
You can also access many articles on the subject of disability and health using Library Search.
What is UKDHM?
Disability History Month runs from mid-November to mid-December every year and covers HIV/AIDS Day (1st December), International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd Dec.) and International Human Rights Day (10th December).
It also follows on directly from Anti-Bullying Week (19th to 18th November) which is important as 2.5 times as much bullying is recorded towards disabled young people as compared to non-disabled (70-80% of young disabled people claim to have been bullied in school and college).*
You can find out more about Disability History Month on the UK Disability History Month website.
*Source: World of Inclusion Ltd (2022) What is UKDHM? [online]. Available at: https://www.ukdhm.org/what-is-ukdhm/ [Accessed 18 November 2022]
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