 | A Constructive Theology of Intellectual Disability: Human Being as Mutuality and Response
This book is about how people with significant intellectual disabilities experience religion |
| A Part or Apart? Disability and Inclusion in the Faith Community
This photo essay shows people with disabilities being included in their faith communities. There are also written stories about disability and inclusion, and a discussion guide to help everyone talk about what they see. |
| A Pattern of Silent Tears
This is the first novel by a Latina woman who has cerebral palsy. It is about women in Costa Rica and their struggle to survive among people reluctant to give up suffocating traditions of male oppression and strict interpretation of religious doctrine.
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| A place in the pew: People with disabilities advocate to attend church of choice
This article talks about accessibility and people with disabilities being able to attend the church of their choice. |
| After We’re Gone: A Christian Perspective on Estate and Life Planning for Families That Include a Dependent Member with a Disability
This book helps parents and families plan for the ongoing care of loved ones with disabilities. It is written from a Christian perspective. |
| Against tall odds: Being a David in a Goliath World
This true story is about a man born with diastrophic dwarfism. It tells about his courtship and marriage to woman he met at the Little People of American convention, and their children as well as his careers in movies and computers. |
| Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disability, and Inclusion
This book tells sixty-four stories about how faith communities have become inclusive of people with disabilities. The stories cover many different religious traditions and disability types. |
| Autism & Alleluias
A book written by the mother of young adult with Autism. She uses the stories gathered over many years to explain what her life has been like. The author also explains how Christianity helped her. |
| Autism and Faith: A Journey into Community
A book about including children and adults with autism in faith communities. This guide contains real life stories and short articles written by family members, theologians, pastors, rabbis, people with autism, and professionals. |
| Autism and Loss
A book about how people with Autism experience loss and grieving, and ways that others can provide support. |
| Autism and Your Church: Nurturing the Spiritual Growth of People with Autism Spectrum Disorder (revised & updated in 2011)
This book helps churches welcome people with Autism Spectrum Disorder into the full life of their congregations.
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| Beyond Accessibility: Toward Full Inclusion of People with Disabilities
This book is about full inclusion of people with disabilities into faith communities. |
| Book of Prayers
These prayers are written at different reading levels for people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Breaking Bread, Nourishing Connections: People with and without Disabilities Together at Mealtime
This is an easy-to-use book with poems, personal stories and photographs from people around the world to show how mealtime can be a chance for people with and without disabilities to spend time getting to know and appreciate each other. |
| Caring Relationships: Helping People with Mental Impairments Understand God's Gift of Sexuality
A guidebook for caregivers and friends of people with ID/DD around questions of sexuality/relationships. |
| Churches mustn't neglect the disabled
This newspaper article explained the need of all church's to be inclusive of people with disabilities. It also explained the costs in doing so. It was written in January, 2011. |
| Contemporary Issues in Intellectual Disabilities
This academic book is about many topics affecting people with intellectual disabilities. |
| Disability and Religious Diversity: Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives
This book is about culture, disability, and religion. |
| Expressing Faith in Jesus Church Membership for People with Intellectual Disabilities
This book guides church leaders on including people with intellectual disabilities in the Christian sacraments. These are things like baptism and confirmation. |
| Helping People with Developmental Disabilities Mourn: Practical Rituals for Caregivers
This is a book for caregivers to help people with disabilities mourn the death of a loved one. |
| Impact: Feature Issue on Faith Communities and Persons with Developmental Disabilities
A collection of articles that introduce key issues, provide examples of exemplary programs, share personal stories, and provide resources for persons interested in building inclusive fath communities |
| Including People with Disabilities in Faith Communities: A Guide for Service Providers, Families, and Congregations
A book with guides to help people with developmental disabilities to be part of the faith community of their choice. It helps congregations be more welcoming and creative. It teaches support staff how to pay attention to people's spiritual needs. |
| Inclusion Handbook: Everybody Belongs, Everybody Serves
This booklet helps church leaders in welcoming people with disabilities to worship. |
| Inclusive Ministries and Congregational Supports
A project bringing together faith groups, service providers, and persons with disabilities. |
| Institute on disability looks beyond 'inclusion' (National Catholic Reporter Article
This magazine article is about the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. |
| Jewish Community Guide to the Inclusion of People with Disabilities
A guide for Jewish and any other faith community organizations interested in providing a supportive and inclusive environment for people with disaiblities. |
| Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health
An interfaith journal sharing many different ideas about spirituality and disability. |
| More precious than gold: The fiery trial of a family's faith
True story about a mom and her two year old daughter who survived severe burns. |
| No box to tick
This booklet explains the spiritual needs of people with intellectual disabilities. |
| On the Road to Congregational Inclusion: Dimensions of Faith and Congregational Ministries with Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families
This guide has many resources helpful to clergy, laypersons, families and service providers. |
| Person Centered Planning for Later Life: Death and Dying - A curriculum for Adults with Mental Retardation
This training curriculum helps people with mental disabilities understand death and grieving. It includes six lessons lead by a facilitator and a student notebook. Pictures and interactive options, such as field trips to a funeral home, are included. |
| Position Statement on Spirituality
This statement explains the belief that people with disabilities have the right to worship, or not, how and where they want. |
| Quality in Practice: Spirituality
An article that provides tips for how organizations can support people in their spiritual lives. |
| Religion Division Quarterly
A quarterly newsletter about spirituality and persons with developmental disabilities. |
| Resource Packet on Disability, Spirituality, and Healing
This resource packet presents articles, an annotated bibliography, a course syllabus, and handouts on disability and spirituality. |
| Shaped by God
Thus book is about how people can build their Christian faith. There is one chapter about helping people who have developmental disabilities. |
| Speaking Out: Gifts of Ministering Undeterred by Disabilities
This book is about people with disabilities who are ministers in the Methodist church. |
| Spirituality and Hospitality: What the Church Can Learn by Welcoming Persons with Disabilities
This paper talks about what the Reformed Church of America would gain by welcoming people with disabilities. |
| Spirituality and Me: A Spiritual Gifts Assessment
Spirituality and Me: A Spiritual Gifts Assessment is used by people to find their own spiritual gifts. This guide will also help people to find how best to use these gifts in their lives |
| Strength in Weakness: The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
The author of this book wants people with disabilities to be seen as they are, not changed or healed. |
| Supportive Care in the Congregation: Providing a congregational network of care for persons with significant disabilities
This small book outlines a vision for networks of support within faith communities. These networks help people with disabilities and their families. |
| The Bible, Disability, and the Church: A New Vision of the People of God
This book talks about the church and views on disability. |
| The Christian Citizen (Issue focused on Disability)
An issue of a christian magazine that contains articles about the inclusion of people with disabilities. |
| The Church and Disability
This book is about the success of churches in including people with disabilities. The author has a very active blog, and these are its highlights over several years. |
| The Teacher's Gift: Using your Core Gift to Inspire and Heal
This book explains how gifts and wounds both help and hinder people's ability to help others. It includes interviews with helpers and their wisdom about gifts and helping. |
| The Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
This book tells the story of Lucas, a man with cerebral palsy who is an important and valued member of his church. It has both photographs and text. |
| Understanding Death and Illness and What They Teach About Life: An Interactive Guide for Individuals with Autism or Asperger's and their Loved Ones
A book to help people with autism with questions they may have after the death of a loved one. |
| V'khol Banayikh: Jewish Education for All
This book describes how people with disablities can best be included in activities around the Jewish faith. |
| What Should We Do for Jay? The Edges of Life and Cognitive Disability
This article asks how and on what grounds you should make end-of-life-decisions for a person with intellectual disability. |
| Ya Got People: Helping people with developmental disabilities deal with grief, bereavement and loss
This book is for those who support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who have experienced loss. Both authors are people who have disabilities themselves. |
| A Place for All: Faith and Community for Persons with Disabilities
This film is about making faith communities accessible to persons with disabilities. |
| Beginning and Strengthening Inclusive Ministries and Congregations
This step-by-step guide is about helping people with disabilities get involved in faith communities. |
| Best Man
This movie follows Philly 20 years after he moves into a group home. Told by his cousin, Ira Wohl, this movie describes how Philly becomes more independent. It also shares Philly's integration into the Jewish community and religious life at age 70.
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| Church Response to People with Disabilities: 3 Approaches
This blog entry talks about three ways that the church sees people with disabilities. |
| Creating Room In God's House
In this film people talk about people with disabilities being welcomed in faith communities. |
| Disabilities and Faith.org
This website offers many ideas to help houses of faith become more accessible and inclusive. |
| Disabled Christianity
This blog is about the successes and struggles of churches in respecting and including people with disabilities. |
| Disabled Christianity Blog
This website focuses on religion and disability. |
| Faith Communities and Disabilities
In July 2009, PBS aired a short segment about the full inclusion of people with disabilities in religious communities. You can watch it online and leave comments. |
| Faith For All
Faith for All is an organization that helps make sure that people with disabilities are included in the faith community. |
| Institute on disability looks beyond 'inclusion' (National Catholic Reporter Article
This magazine article is about the Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. |
| Key Resources for Creating and Building Partnerships between Provider Agencies and Religious Organizations/Congregations to Address Spiritual Supports for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their Families.
This list has books, reports, websites, videos and more. All support the inclusion of people with disabilities in faith communities. |
| Mayor of the West Side
A documentary film that tells the coming-of-age story of Mark Puddington, a teenager with multiple disabilities who is a local celebrity in his NYC neighborhood. |
| Muslimah Next Door (Blog)
A blog by an American Muslim who has a son with autism. Her blog posts are about faith, family and autism. |
| National Catholic Partnership on Disability
This agency works for the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the church and in society. |
| On the Road to Congregational Inclusion: Dimensions of Faith and Congregational Ministries with Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families
This guide has many resources helpful to clergy, laypersons, families and service providers. |
| Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors Products
A foundation producing videos, resource guides, and many other products explaining how to include persons with disabilities in faith communities |
| Opening doors to people with disabilities
This article reviews how well the Methodist church is including people with disabilities. It has interesting ideas about how things are improving. |
| Praying with Lior
This documentary film is about a Jewish boy who has Down syndrome. It shows his bar mitzvah, and the influence his deep faith has on others in his congregation. |
| Profession of Faith for People with Intellectual Disabilities (blog)
This blog article is about faith and people with intellectual disabilities. |
| See it! Say it! Sign it!
This short video shows how three churches are learning to use American Sign Language as part of their worship. |
| Signs of the Times: Theological Themes in the Changing Forms of Ministries and Spiritual Supports with People with Disabilities
This short article is a reflection of how inclusive churches currently are and ways churches can be more inclusive. |
| Summer Institute on Theology and Disabiltiy 2010 and 2011
These are audio recordings of an interesting conference. |
| The Christian Citizen (Issue focused on Disability)
An issue of a christian magazine that contains articles about the inclusion of people with disabilities. |
| The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's webpage on the inclusion of people with disabilities
This website offers resources on being inclusive of those with disabilities in the Jewish religion. |
| The Vulnerable Journey
An audiotape of Father Henri Nouwens powerful forty-five minute talk from the 1996 "That All May Worship" conference on inclusion convened by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago. |
| Ways to Connect with People with Disabilities
This guide encourages the religious in Knoxville, TN to become more involved with people who have disabilities. |
