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The following memes and posters are offered for you to print or use in social media. Before printing posters, please contact us to see if we have printed posters available to share with you. We ask that you take the time to make what you share accessible.
Disability Awareness
Description: Stevie Wonder holds a microphone. Quote: “I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of
being Black as a disadvantage. I am what I am. I love me!”
Stevie Wonder
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilitylsDiversity
Description: RJ Mitte smiles with quote “People perceive disability as a weakness…something that needs to be cured, and we have to fight against that.”
R.J. Mitte
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Whoopi Goldberg smiling with the quote: The advantage of dyslexia is that my brain puts information in my head a different way, more interestingly than if I saw like everyone else.
Whoopi Goldberg
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Nyle DiMarco with quote: I don’t find not being able to hear an obstacle…For me, and for many of us, it is an advantage, and it’s a part of my identity, in fact. It’s a huge part of who I am.
Nyle DiMarco
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Text: Let’s Talk About Ableism
A•ble•ism (/ˈābəˌlizəm/)
- Discrimination against people with disabilities.
- Attitudes, beliefs, and practices that:
- promote stereotypes about people with disabilities
- value being nondisabled over disability
Description: Chalkboard with text: Independent living is not doing things by yourself. It’s being in control of how things are done.
Judy Heumann
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Chalkboard with text: Disability isn’t the problem. what’s the problem is convincing others it’s not a problem.
Lais Kari
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Chalkboard with text: What you call people is how you treat them.
Nick Marcellino, Rosa’s brother
Rosa’s Law – PL 111-256
#AssumeNothing
#DisabilityIsDiversity
Description: Text on purple background set up to look like a dictionary entry:
Disability
dis ə bil I tē
Noun.
1. Not what you think it is.
Allyship
Description: Hour glass with text:
Practice a pause; Allow the person with a disability to lead the way.
Description: Card includes the following text:
Take a Pause
Sometimes when supporting people with disabilities, allies need to practice a pause and allow for the person with a disability to lead the way.
- Everyone needs time to think about what they
want and need in different situations. - If someone uses a communication device, pause and be patient to give the person unpressured time to communicate.
- If you don’t understand the person’s speech, please ask again and keep asking because this shows you care and respect the person.
- Do not take over a situation to try to help. Allow the person with a disability to remain in control and ask for help
Self Advocacy
Description: Julie Petty with quote: If it were not for the self advocacy movement, Iwould not be the leader…or the person…I am today.
Julie Petty, Arkansas
Description: Mike Thornton with quote: Self advocacy is about networking…but also to help us find encouragement and power among one another.
Michael W. Thornton, Advocacy Coordinator, Arkansas
Description: Max Burrows with quote: Strong bonds really strengthen self advocacy. People learn from each other, and through that they discover strengths, when it comes to speaking up, that they were not aware of when they were younger, or before they even got involved in self advocacy.
Max Burrows, Vermont
Description: Nancy Ward smiles with text: Empowerment is when you have gained the confidence in yourself to have the light bulb go on in your head. You realize you can take control of your life and you understand that now you have done it.
Nancy Ward, Oklahoma
Description: Teresa Moore smiles with text: Being part of self advocacy changed the way I thought about and treated myself. I think it helps me to be stronger when I know there are people out in the world who think my life is important and valuable.
Teresa Moore, Arizona
Description: Elouise Woods smiles and holds up frame that says Happy Retirement Elouise with text: Self Advocacy has been important in my life. It has given me the courage to speak up about things that are important me. It has made me the strong and powerful person I am today.
Elouise Woods, Alabama
Description: Chaqueta Stuckey smiles with text: As a self advocate belonging to a community, we demand safety and respect for the dignity of every person in every community.
Chaqueta Stuckey (Better known as “Q”), North Carolina
Description: Tia Nelis smiles with text: When people respect you, that’s when you know they’re going to be there for you, when they’re going to help you, that’s when they’re going to be sure that your dreams come true.
Tia Nelis, Illinois
Description: Julia Bascom stands near a wall and smiles with text: We are fighting for everyone’s right to speak for themselves. We all have a voice, no matter how we express it, and we are all going to be heard.
Julia Bascom, Executive Director, Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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