Disability Inclusion and Accessibility
A person with a disability is defined by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 as an individual who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, has a record of such an impairment.
Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Taskforce
Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity (JHM ODIHE) launched JHM’s first ever Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Task Force in October 2022. The purpose of the taskforce is to develop and implement policies and practices and educate Johns Hopkins Medicine about inclusion, accessibility, and equity for faculty, students, trainees, staff, and patients with disabilities. The task force guides the direction of organizational resources to increase accessibility and organizes events to promote disability inclusion.
Taskforce Goal(s):
- Review policies and practices for inclusion, accessibility, and equity
- Address ADA compliance issues
- Develop policies (as needed)
- Improve website accessibility
- Integrate collection of patient self-identified disability and accommodations into MyChart and Kiosks
- Ensure MyChart accessibility
- Promote disability inclusion
- Ensure and improve accessibility of facilities across JHM
Additional topics and content will be added as they become available. All video recordings are closed captioned to ensure accessibility. You will need to be logged into the Hopkins network to access the content.
| Workgroups | Workgroup Members |
|---|---|
| JHM ODIHE Members |
|
Website Accessibility
|
|
Disability Accessibility and Inclusion in Policies
|
|
Disability Inclusion in Facilities
|
|
Awareness Workgroup
|
|
Disability Education Resources
Disability is an intersectional, individualized experience, so no list can ever fully capture the experience of being disabled in America. We acknowledge that people are not resources - they are people. We share their website links, writings, scholarship, and lived experience with you here, but they are not objects for our consumption.
JHM Links
- JHM Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Health Equity Disability Accommodations Education Webinars
- JHHS Office of Organizational Equity
JHU Disability DEI Education Resources
Additional Resources by Topic Area
-
- Emily Ladau, "Demystifying Disability: What to know, What to say, and How to be an Ally”
- Jay T Dolmage, “Academic Ableism” free on audible
- Alice Wong (Editor), “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century”
- Sins Invalid, Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (A Disability Justice Primer) "
- Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
-
- Dr. Stephanie Van video interview - Blindness & Blackness - featuring Thomas Reid (part 1) [CC] [AD]
- My Body Doesn’t Oppress Me, Society Does - ft. Stacey Milburn & Patty Berne
- Let’s Talk about Ableism: ft. Imani Barbarin
- Ted Talk: Stella Young, "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much"
- Is it okay to say disabled? Ft. Keah Brown and Blair Imani
- Not special needs: for World Down Syndrome Day
-
-
- Stanford’s Healthcare and Disability Annual Conference
- Medical Industrial Complex Visual by Mia Mingus
- Moving toward a more inclusive physiatry workforce: Authors from Mount Sinai, Brigham and Women's, Spaulding/Harvard, UC Davis, and others, how medicine and particularly the field of PM&R should be doing more to recruit from a more diverse pool of learners and trainees, including students with disabilities
- Evidence from the scientific and academic literature that, given accommodations, learners with differences and disabilities can do quite well and bring a breadth of new and enriching knowledge and perspectives to a field of study (even here at Hopkins)