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Showcasing Texas’ central role in the disability rights movement, especially adapted sports and access to higher education.
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NEWS & EVENTS

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Online Exhibit: Building a Barrier-Free Campus

“Building a Barrier-Free Campus” explores how UTA began to become a model accessible campus for students with...

Government, Policy and Law

  • Abu Yilla making presentation on stage
    Civil Liberties and Rights
    55 items
  • student using sign language in a classroom
    Education
    75 items
  • Community volunteers, board members, officials, and staff members
    Government Agencies
    72 items
  • International Relations
    1 items
  • typed letter on stationery of the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped
    Labor and Commerce
    8 items
  • Letter from Donna Darovich, University of Texas at Arlington's News Service Director, to Jim Hayes
    Laws and Regulation
    117 items
  • Doctor and nurse giving child polio vaccine
    Public Health and Welfare
    128 items
  • Three men in uniform, two of whom are paraplegics in wheelchairs
    Veterans and Military
    37 items

Institutions, Organizations and Corporations

  • men in suits and ties sitting around a table
    Diagnosis and Consumer Groups
    7 items
  • students holding the green cross flag for safety
    Educational Institutions
    399 items
  • Technician studies malaria-smear under microscope
    Medicine and Science
    117 items
  • Judge presents plaques to two men
    Professional Associations
    102 items
  • Camp Fire Girls prepare sheets of Christmas Seals
    Service Organizations
    467 items
  • Disabled vets at work
    Social Welfare and Employment
    124 items

Mass Media, Culture and the Arts

  • Christmas Seals marketing poster
    Communication
    92 items
  • players clash in a wheelchair basketball game
    Media
    99 items
  • mental health residents enjoy socializing
    Private Life
    67 items
  • two people embracing in church
    Religion
    7 items
  • Special Olympics track competition
    Sports and Entertainment
    338 items
  • 3 dancers, one male and two women, are on stage performing.
    The Arts
    62 items

Physical Environment

  • woman with her guide dog and mobility instructor
    Accessibility
    291 items
  • woman demostrating a TTY or a text telephone
    Assistive Technology
    109 items

Science, Health and Technology

  • researcher at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas
    Diagnoses and Diseases
    35 items
  • woman standing with a tray of bottles at Fort Worth Eye Bank
    Health and Medicine
    90 items
  • students being x-rayed
    Public Health
    51 items
  • woman hooking up a cochlear implant for man
    Technology and Equipment
    48 items

Science, Health and Technology

  • researcher at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas
    Diagnoses and Diseases
    35 items
  • woman standing with a tray of bottles at Fort Worth Eye Bank
    Health and Medicine
    90 items
  • students being x-rayed
    Public Health
    51 items
  • woman hooking up a cochlear implant for man
    Technology and Equipment
    48 items

Social Movements and Advocacy

  • Protesters stage a rally outside Fort Worth's John Peter Smith Hospital
    Advocacy
    422 items
  • Craig Crosby poses in a wheelchair beside a window with an airplane
    Identify
    9 items
  • Texas State Capitol building
    Ideologies
    19 items
  • disabled veteran tinkers with a magneto
    Labor
    17 items
  • cover of State Government News magazine
    Social Welfare and Communities
    308 items
  • A young woman is wearing a sash that says Miss Houston.
    Women and Gender
    5 items

Disability By Category

  • speech therapist works with boy wearing headphones
    Cognitive Disability
    86 items
  • Student shows athletic prowess with his wheelchair in front of group of high school students
    Physical Disability
    631 items
  • hospital for patients with mental health issues
    Psychiatric Disability
    82 items
  • boy pets the head of a goat as a man holds it for him
    Sensory Disability
    178 items

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