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<Title>Encore Online Screening of The Ride Ahead 4/4/25 4:00p</Title>
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<Summary>ADS had a great time hosting a screening of the Ride Ahead on Tuesday, and just had an encore opportunity to view this ground-breaking and myth-busting film - please consider attending via Zoom...</Summary>
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<Title>Co-Creating A Disability-Friendly Academic Year</Title>
<Tagline>Supporting Faculty, Staff and Students as a Community</Tagline>
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Let's embark on this journey together, co-creating a community that values accessibility, dignity, and mutual respect.</div><div><br></div><div>A photo of a woman with dreadlocks and noise-canceling headphones sitting at home with a laptop accompanies this post.  Credit: <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-woman-with-dreadlocks-sitting-in-front-of-a-laptop-computer--ZFvSWK4L28" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Surface via Unsplash</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy some of the excellence from this year's <a href="https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/paralympic-games" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Paralympic Games in Paris</a> (they always follow the Olympics)</div></div>
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<Title>Accessibility and Disability Update:  May News and Events</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>May contains multitudes beyond finals and commencements:<br><br></div><div>Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) Heritage Month has a lot of intersectionality with disability beyond luminaries like <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1153937530/activist-alice-wong-lunar-new-year-year-of-the-tiger-rabbit" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Alice Wong</a> and local <a href="https://lydiaxzbrown.com/about/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Lydia X. Y. Brown</a> -  Read more about the<a href="https://www.aadinitiative.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/posts/141564" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">May 16th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)</a> - click on the link to learn more about how to celebrate and enhance accessibility, especially digital accessibility, such as:</div><div><br></div><div>Know or experience a UMBC faculty or a department that champions accessibility?  NOMINATE THEM for the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNGiDxch11lNuoSnPvlhNLwMLPXMWtdyMWZK8QnrsEccBH4A/viewform" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">ADS Accessibility Trailblazer Award via this link</a>.  Last year's awardees:</div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Laura Rose, Psychology (Faculty) and the Chemistry Department (2023)</div><div><br></div><div>Want to learn more about course accessibility, read on:</div><div><br></div><div>On <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/129781" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">May 21st Improve Course Accessibility with a 30 minute Quick Start with Instructional Technology, faculty can sign up for this online session here.</a></div><div><br></div><div>Learn more about <a href="https://umbc.edu/stories/umbcs-first-fulbright-scholar-in-residence-research-on-neurodiversity/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">ADS collaboration with UMBC's Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence research on neurodiversity in language teaching and learning (TESOL)</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, on May 10, <a href="https://sds.umbc.edu/dapi-international-honor-society/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC's Gamma Kappa chapter of Delta Alphi Pi International Honor Society</a> for students with disabilities had its <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/events/129672" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Induction, welcoming seven (7) new member and celebrating three graduating seniors</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>In closing, don't forget to take care of yourself (Take the Moment) throughout all of May in honor of <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/accessibility/posts/141563" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Mental Health Awareness Month</a>!</div></div>
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