International Day of the Disabled :

• 03 December is International Day of Disabled Persons. Practise your English while you learn about disability.
  Take a look at the article, poem, word games, cartoon, poll, trivia and links.
  (British Council)
  
  

• International Day of Disabled Persons - 3 December
  2007 Theme: "Decent work for persons with disabilities"
  (un.org)

• International Day of Disabled Persons
  (Wikipedia)

Facts :

• Record setters
  "Collected here are a group of superlatives, recent photos of world records and record attempts around the world. (31 photos total)"
  (boston.com)

  PHOTO 7 : "Physical challenged people participate in purportedly the world's largest finger painting, a 100 feet by 140 feet canvas, to mark International Day of Persons with Disabilities in Ahmadabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. More than 200 physically challenged people participated in the event for a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records."

• Disability (Wikipedia)
  "A disability is a condition or function judged to be significantly impaired relative to the usual standard of an individual of their group. The term is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic disease..."
  1 The Disability rights movement 1.1 Adapted sports 1.2 Current issues
  2 Definitions and Models 2.1 The medical model 2.2 The social model
  3 Impairment, Culture, Language, & Labeling
  4 Other models
  5 Government policies and support
  6 Demographics
  7 Disability insurance nationalized and private
  8 Adaptations..

• Disabilities Online Database (disabilities-online.com)

• Puppets help teach about disabilities (wakefieldexpress.co.uk)

Cliparts :

Disability Clipart "This collection of images depicts a wide range of ages and various disabilities." (neo-rls.org)	People with Disabilities (dir.coolclips.com)	Special Clipart (members.tripod.com/Samdo)
	Disabilities Clipart (clipsahoy.com)
	Disabled Clipart (acclaimclipart.com)

Vocabulary :

• DISABLED (answers.com)

• List of disability-related terms with negative connotations (Wikipedia)

• Disability Vocabulary - Do s and Don'ts :
  Affirmative Language / Language to Avoid
  (disability.law.uiowa.edu)
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Famous People With Disabilities - Quiz (cc-inclusion.org)

• Disability at work - interactive quiz - Test your understanding of word formation.
  (BBC)

• Interactive quizzes (ldpride.net)

Activities TO PRINT :

• Celebrity Quiz (ldonline.org)
  "See if you can match the following personal description to the names..."
  

Lesson plans :

• WHO Says One Billion People Disabled (12th June, 2011) - a lesson plan (breakingnewsenglish.com)

• Understanding Kids Who Are Different: Activities for Teaching About Disabilities
  (Education World)

Webquests :

• Disability Webquest (newhartfordschools.org)
  
  
  
  
  

• Kids Quest on Disability and Health (cdc.gov)
  

Cartoons :

Laziest dog I've ever had!

Danger! (newyorker.com)

Blind and dyslexic (londonstimes.us)

Videos :

• Born On The Fourth Of July: Part-10 - with Tom Cruise in a wheelchair
  (YouTube)
  
  "Though he tries to maintain his dignity as a Marine, Ron gradually becomes disillusioned, feeling the effects of his paralysis on his life, and realizes that all the things he was taught from birth, like honor, patriotism, and courage, were illusions which he would give up any day to get his legs back... 
  After returning home drunk one night after having a barroom confrontation with a World War II veteran who expresses no sympathy to Ron,
  Ron's disillusionment grows severe enough that he has an intense fight with his mother, yelling at her that there was no God, and that they
  murdered babies in Vietnam disregarding what Christianity actually taught."
  (Wikipedia)