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Events, News, and Resources
Accessibility & Abilities: All Upcoming Library Events
Multiple Dates
Multiple Locations
Free events and workshops focused on increasing accessibility, celebrating all abilities, and providing resources.
How To: Find Accessible Content Through the CELA Collection
CELA holds over 450,000 items in accessible formats for all ages. Discover this resource—now updated with info on Dolphin EasyReader!
Community Collection: Accessibility
These blogs include stories and information from the disability community focusing on the state of accessibility, and archived past content.
All About Home Delivery
Home Delivery is a free service for residents who are unable to visit due to disability, long-term illness, or caregiver responsibilities.
International Day of People with Disabilities: YA Fiction
This selection of young adult fiction centres characters with visible and invisible disabilities.
Movies and TV Shows Featuring People with Disabilities
The films and shows in this list, available for borrowing from the Library on DVD or Blu-Ray, feature characters with disabilities.
Graphic Novels Featuring People with Disabilities
This list of graphic novels features memoirs by people with disabilities, as well as stories of characters with disabilities.
Not Your Inspiration
These books discuss disability pride, activism and history, building on the message of the "Not Your Inspiration" TEDTalk by Stella Young.
Building Futures Employment Society
Supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities to contribute to their community while realizing their personal goals.
Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax-Dartmouth Branch
CMHA provides adults in the community living with mental illness access to programs that offer vital social support connections.
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
CNIB delivers innovative programs that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and advocacy to tear down barriers.
Canadian Paraplegic Association - Nova Scotia
Providing a range of comprehensive, equitable, and holistic services for persons with SCI and other mobility disabilities, and loved ones.
Videos About Disabilities
1 in 5 Canadians
1 in 5 Canadians are living with a disability. Let's remove the barriers to their potential.
I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much
In this very funny talk, comedian and journalist, Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn."
Understanding Disabilities
Some people have disabilities that you can see and others have disabilities that you cannot see. Everyone has special talents to share.
Disability: How You See Me
"Society doesn't correlate disability with being attractive... but we CAN be stylish, gorgeous, stunning, and FABULOUS."
