Here is the list of events for the week:
Sunday, October 6th
Disability Pride Parade, 9 AM
The Disability Awareness Parade is a fun and empowering event where you can join the growing community of people with disabilities and allies to take pride in or further express their pride in their disability, all while continuing to raise awareness and educate on all aspects of disability.
Monday, October 7th
Launch Party, 12 PM - 2 PM
The DAW Launch Party will kick off the 2019 Disability Awareness Week series of events. The Launch Party will feature tables from many campus units that house disability and accessibility resources. We will have free pizza from Enzo's Pizzeria. We will have giveaway prizes. We will have music! Drop by on your way to class and learn something new or just hang out for a minute to eat and enjoy the party.
Get Hired with a Disability, 2:30 PM - 4 PM
Engage with staff from Student Legal Services, Center for Accessible Education, CAPS, & Insurance and Risk Management who will share their unique knowledge to help you facilitate your career development effectively. Enhance your knowledge of your rights and laws related to disability in the workforce. Gain assertiveness and communication skills/strategies to become your own advocate in the job search process to effectively assert your skills to potential employers. Debunk limiting beliefs while gaining confidence of your attributes during the job search process enhancing your chances to become Hired!
Included In The Picture, 6 PM - 8 PM
Four short documentaries on inclusion, with a focus on autism and non-verbal communication. A Q&A Panel with the film creators, Autistic Self-Advocators, and medical professionals will follow the screening. The panel will discuss insights for how to work with people with communication disabilities and impacts to healthcare access.
Tuesday, October 8th
UCOD Meeting, 2 PM - 4 PM
Get involved and become an advocate for the students, staff and faculty of UCLA with disabilities. At these action-packed monthly meetings get to know all the players in the disability community here at UCLA, learn about the challenges facing the disabled community and become a member of a growing and dynamic group.
Wheelchair Basketball, 4 PM - 7:30 PM
Adaptive Recreation will be hosting Wheelchair Basketball games every Tuesday at Collins Court (John Wooden Center). Doors open at 4:00pm. WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL IS OPEN TO ALL! No experience necessary, sports wheelchairs are provided, and students with/without disabilities or community members are welcome as well.
Wednesday, October 9th
Fight for Inclusivity with Jerry Kang, 11:45 AM - 1:30 PM
Join Jerry Kang, a leading professor of law at UCLA as well as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, and Chandra Bhatnagar, director of staff diversity and affirmative action/EEO compliance in a luncheon to discuss current inclusivity issues and topics around campus.
A Community Combatting Barriers Town Hall, 6 PM - 8 PM
As part of UCLA’s Disability Awareness Week, we will be hosting a town hall, open to all students, faculty, or anyone wants to support UCLA's disabled community. The theme of this year’s town hall is “A Community Combatting Barriers.” We would like to invite you to share your insight on how we can create a community and support system for students with disabilities.
Thursday, October 10th
Web Accessibility Basics Training, 1 PM - 2 PM
People who are blind, low-vision or have dyslexia rely on assistive technologies and screenreading software to “read text out loud” to them. However, many documents and websites created are completely inaccessible or just frustrating for screenreader users. Learn accessible design and content management tools to make it easier for people with disabilities to engage with your website content and documents. During the hour long active learning session, you will learn the impact of accessible websites and documents, simple methods how to build in accessibility in current content, and have an opportunity for hands-on experience building accessible webpages and documents. Please bring your laptop.
Friday, October 11th
Disability Yoga, 11 AM - 1 PM (Session 1) or 3 PM - 5 PM (Session 2)
In these classes, we will explore methods that yoga teachers and yoga students living with disabilities can use for taking the practice wherever it needs to go, moving beyond typical limits of culture and society into the love and respect of heart-to-heart communication, while we stretch traditional concepts of posture and movement in sometimes surprising ways. Keeping the principles of anatomy, physiology, alignment and form in mind, we will experience the creative and liberal use of both yoga props and generous hands-on support from one or more helpers to meet individual circumstances. We'll work on ways more mobile students can practice as independently as possible and learn how to work more interactively with less mobile students.
