Resources

Academic Articles

Reports

• Disabilities Among Refugees and Conflict-affected Populations (Women’s Refugee Commission)
  Report finds refugees with disabilities to be among the most underserved and neglected people in the world.
• Disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts
  In February 2016, the Royal Commission commissioned a succinct discussion paper
  on disability and child sexual abuse in institutional contexts. The discussion paper
  aimed to explore (i) the relationship between understandings of disability and the
  disability service system in Australia over time and currently, (ii) the interaction
  between characteristics of a child’s impairment and the environment which may lead
  to the sexual abuse of children with disability in institutional contexts, and (iii)
  evidence-based prevention approaches to sexual abuse of children with disability
  with a particular focus on children with disability in institutional contexts in the future.
• I See That It Is Possible (Women’s Refugee Commission)
  Building Capacity for Disability Inclusion in Gender-based Violence (GBV) Programming in Humanitarian Settings
• Refugees with Disabilities | Fact Sheet (Women’s Refugee Commission)

Took Kits

• Gender-based Violence Against Children and Youth with Disabilities Toolkit: A Toolkit for Child Protection Actors (Women’s Refugee Commission)
  This participatory toolkit for child protection, GBV prevention and response, and youth engagement was designed for humanitarian and development staff to develop their capacity for disability inclusion, identify gender-based violence prevention and response needs among children and youth with disabilities, involve these young people in planning and implementing activities

Film and Documentary

• Fixed: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
  From bionic limbs and neural implants to prenatal screening, researchers around the world are hard at work developing a myriad of technologies to fix or enhance the human body. FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement takes a close look at the drive to be “better than human” and the radical technological innovations that may take us there. Click here for the Otago Library Link to this film
• Intelligent Lives
  In this documentary film project Intelligent Lives (working title), filmmaker Dan Habib explores how the segregation of people with intellectual disabilities became the norm, why this segregation is slowly being dismantled, and how some people with intellectual disabilities are blazing a bold new path.
• Life Animated
  From Academy Award winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.
• My World, My View
  Kiwi kids join the conversation about building a new NZ disability strategy. The Ministry of Education captured their powerful messages in these videos.
• No Arms No Legs No Worries
• Sproutflix
  Sproutflix hosts the largest and most diverse assortment of films featuring people with I/DD on the marketplace. Their growing collection is made up of feature length documentaries and narratives as well as short films, animations and music videos. Sproutflix are the only distributor of films exclusively featuring people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Podcasts