Institute on Disabilities Publications
Established in 1974, the Institute on Disabilities has mirrored the changes in the field of developmental disabilities, evolving into a model of self-determination and individualized support in the community.
The Institute on Disabilities leads by example, creating connections and promoting networks within and among communities so that people with disabilities are recognized as integral to the fabric of community life.
A variety of publications are available from the Institute on Disabilities.
IOD Accessibility in Technology*Order for Delivery Price: Free ($0.00) Brochure presents information for manufacturers of technology regarding the usability and accessibility features most requested/necessary for people with disabilities and the aging population.
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IOD Annual Report*Order for Delivery Price: Free ($0.00) Describes the vision, mission and programs of the Institute on Disabilities, including a summary of accomplishments and planned activities.
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IOD End the Silence*Order for Delivery Price: $10.00 Four individuals with disabilities describe their emotions associated with their personal experience with physical and sexual abuse.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD In A Struggling Voice: The Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams - 1989*Order for Delivery Price: $9.50 Robert R. Williams is a Washington, DC based poet and disability rights activist. In A Struggling Voice is the first published selection of his poetry. Williams was born in 1957 and has had cerebral palsy since birth. His poetry portrays the challenges, struggles and strengths of individuals with significant disabilities, as well as more universal themes of adolescent love relived, the turmoil of Vietnam, and the need to recognize the strength of human diversity.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Independent Monitoring for Quality: A Statewide Summary*Order for Delivery Price: Free ($0.00) Presents findings of face-to-face interviews with individuals receiving services and supports through the Office of Mental Retardation. Conducted by 46 local programs independent from the service delivery system, with local teams comprised of people with disabilities, family members, and/or concerned citizens. The Essential Data (EDE) survey includes a pre-survey, a consumer survey and a mail survey for family, friends or guardians.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Individuals with Mental Retardation and the Criminal Justice System: Set of 5 Training Guides*Order for Delivery Price: $75.00 Five-part training guide and the video "Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson." Provides basic knowledge of mental retardation and the impact of mental retardation to: Allies, Attorneys, Law Enforcement Officers, Psychologists, Self-advocates.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
IOD Individuals with Mental Retardation and the Criminal Justice System: Set of 5 Training Guides*Order for Delivery Price: $75.00 Five-part training guide and the video "Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson." Provides basic knowledge of mental retardation and the impact of mental retardation to: Allies, Attorneys, Law Enforcement Officers, Psychologists, Self-advocates.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life*Order for Delivery Price: $20.00 Book by Daniel Gottlieb, PhD. Signed by the author. Collection of letters from the author to his grandson. From the book jacket: Although the themes of the letters are universal, they draw from a highly personal well of experience. Dan Gottlieb has been paralyzed from the neck down since a nearly fatal automobile accident 25 years ago. His grandson Sam was diagnosed at 14 months old with Pervasive Developmental Disability, a severe form of autism. Dan wrote these letters with the hope that Sam would one day be able to read them and through them, get to know his grandfather.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Pennhurst Longitudinal Study*Order for Delivery Price: $25.00 Combined report of five years of research and analysis of the effects of the court-ordered de-institutionalization of the residents of the Pennhurst Sate School and Hospital.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Pennhurst Longitudinal Study: Executive Summary*Order for Delivery Price: $16.00 A 24-page summary of the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Persons with Disabilities Can Speak Out: Supporting Victims Who Want to Tell their Stories*Order for Delivery Price: $10.00 An overview of effective methods used to support individuals with disabilities to disclose/report incidence of sexual violence or other crimes.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Poster - Inglis House Mural*Order for Delivery Price: $12.00 The Institute on Disabilities joined forces with residents of Inglis House to create a unique mural now permanently installed at Inglis House. This colorful, energetic poster celebrates the partnership and the creative process.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Set of Two - In A Struggling Voice: The Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams and Stories*Order for Delivery Price: $15.00 Purchase both volumes of poems by Robert R. Williams (ID801 and ID802) and pay only $15.00.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Sexual Abuse Awareness Training for Self-Advocates*Order for Delivery Price: $25.00 A sexual abuse and personal safety-awareness training program developed by self-advocates for individuals with developmental disabilities and to be presented by self-advocates in collaboration with victim service professionals.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD So You Want to Work? What Employers Say about Job Skills, Recruitment and Hiring Employees*Order for Delivery Price: Free ($0.00) An article on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, June 2007 written by Diane Nelson Bryen, Blyden B. Potts, and Allison C. Carey. A study of job requirement processes, and hiring processes of 27 employers in the United States. Interviews with employers focused on 48 jobs in 25 categories, many identified as desirable by 38 adults AAC users.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Stories to Be Told: Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams - 2003*Order for Delivery Price: $9.50 In this second selection of his poetry, Robert Williams tells of the struggles and strengths of individuals with significant disabilities. Williams challenges us to take the good with the bad, all our joys and sorrows, and to somehow fashion them into better tomorrows.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
IOD Supporting Diverse Learners in School and in the Community - A Training Curriculum in Three Parts*Order for Delivery Price: $100.00 Part 1: Introduction to Inclusive Education. Provides trainers with materials to deliver an overview of inclusive education to teachers, administrators, parents, guardians, people with disabilities and family members. Includes Trainer Guide, slides, handouts, etc. Part 2: Making Friends and Building a Social Network--what, why and how of facilitating relationship-building Part 3: Collaboration: The Key to Success. Addresses collaboration and creative problem solving in order to give school teams a stronger framework from which to support students' inclusive educational experience.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD The Walking Project - An Anthology of Poems by People with Disabilities*Order for Delivery Price: $10.00 A collection of poems by disabled writers about the concept of walking. Uniquely combined with the work of talented Philadelphia area photographer J.J. Tiziou.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Under Arrest: Understanding The Criminal Justice Process in Pennsylvania*Order for Delivery Price: $25.00 A step-by-step review of the criminal justice process - from the arrest, through the preliminary arraignment, preliminary hearing, arraignment, trial, sentencing and possible incarceration, and probation and parole - to help ensure individuals with disabilities and the people who support them, as well as the general public, receive equal justice.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson*Order for Delivery Price: $10.00 In 1986, Johnny Lee Wilson, a 19 year old man with mental retardation who was arrested for murder, unknowingly waived his right to an attorney, confessed to the crime, and spent nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Examines case from a disabilities perspective.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD What it Means to be Different, What it Means to be Human plus Letters to Sam*Order for Delivery Price: $30.00 Purchase both Dr. Gottlieb's presentation on DVD and his latest book (ID: 713 and ID: 714) and receive a special price!
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
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IOD What It Means to be Different, What it Means to be Human - A Presentation by Daniel Gottlieb, PhD.*Order for Delivery Price: $15.00 Recorded at the Spring 2007 Mini Course Series on Disabilities, Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Dr. Gottlieb shares his unique perspective on what it means to be human and on the evolving understanding on the nature of disability. His story-telling ability, his personal experiences and his reading of the profound letters to his grandson Sam included in his latest book "Letters to Sam" make this DVD a moving and enlightening experience.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process. |
IOD Accessibility in Technology
*Order for Delivery
Price: Free ($0.00)
Brochure presents information for manufacturers of technology regarding the usability and accessibility features most requested/necessary for people with disabilities and the aging population.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Annual Report
*Order for Delivery
Price: Free ($0.00)
Describes the vision, mission and programs of the Institute on Disabilities, including a summary of accomplishments and planned activities.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD End the Silence
*Order for Delivery
Price: $10.00
Four individuals with disabilities describe their emotions associated with their personal experience with physical and sexual abuse.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD In A Struggling Voice: The Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams-1989
*Order for Delivery
Price: $9.50
Robert R. Williams is a Washington, DC based poet and disability rights activist. In A Struggling Voice is the first published selection of his poetry. Williams was born in 1957 and has had cerebral palsy since birth. His poetry portrays the challenges, struggles and strengths of individuals with significant disabilities, as well as more universal themes of adolescent love relived, the turmoil of Vietnam, and the need to recognize the strength of human diversity.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Independent Monitoring for Quality: A Statewide Summary
*Order for Delivery
Price: Free ($0.00)
Presents findings of face-to-face interviews with individuals receiving services and supports through the Office of Mental Retardation. Conducted by 46 local programs independent from the service delivery system, with local teams comprised of people with disabilities, family members, and/or concerned citizens. The Essential Data (EDE) survey includes a pre-survey, a consumer survey and a mail survey for family, friends or guardians.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Individuals with Mental Retardation and the Criminal Justice System: Set of 5 Training Guides
*Order for Delivery
Price: $75.00
Five-part training guide and the video "Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson." Provides basic knowledge of mental retardation and the impact of mental retardation to: Allies, Attorneys, Law Enforcement Officers, Psychologists, Self-advocates.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Individuals with Mental Retardation and the Criminal Justice System: Set of 5 Training Guides
*Order for Delivery
Price: $75.00
Five-part training guide and the video "Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson." Provides basic knowledge of mental retardation and the impact of mental retardation to: Allies, Attorneys, Law Enforcement Officers, Psychologists, Self-advocates.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Letters to Sam: A Grandfather's Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life
*Order for Delivery
Price: $20.00
Book by Daniel Gottlieb, PhD. Signed by the author. Collection of letters from the author to his grandson. From the book jacket: Although the themes of the letters are universal, they draw from a highly personal well of experience. Dan Gottlieb has been paralyzed from the neck down since a nearly fatal automobile accident 25 years ago. His grandson Sam was diagnosed at 14 months old with Pervasive Developmental Disability, a severe form of autism. Dan wrote these letters with the hope that Sam would one day be able to read them and through them, get to know his grandfather.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Pennhurst Longitudinal Study
*Order for Delivery
Price: $25.00
Combined report of five years of research and analysis of the effects of the court-ordered de-institutionalization of the residents of the Pennhurst Sate School and Hospital.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Pennhurst Longitudinal Study: Executive Summary
*Order for Delivery
Price: $16.00
A 24-page summary of the Pennhurst Longitudinal Study.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Persons with Disabilities Can Speak Out: Supporting Victims Who Want to Tell their Stories
*Order for Delivery
Price: $10.00
An overview of effective methods used to support individuals with disabilities to disclose/report incidence of sexual violence or other crimes.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Poster - Inglis House Mural
*Order for Delivery
Price: $12.00
The Institute on Disabilities joined forces with residents of Inglis House to create a unique mural now permanently installed at Inglis House. This colorful, energetic poster celebrates the partnership and the creative process.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Set of Two - In A Struggling Voice: The Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams and Stories
*Order for Delivery
Price: $15.00
Purchase both volumes of poems by Robert R. Williams (ID801 and ID802) and pay only $15.00.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Sexual Abuse Awareness Training for Self-Advocates
*Order for Delivery
Price: $25.00
A sexual abuse and personal safety-awareness training program developed by self-advocates for individuals with developmental disabilities and to be presented by self-advocates in collaboration with victim service professionals.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD So You Want to Work? What Employers Say about Job Skills, Recruitment and Hiring Employees
*Order for Delivery
Price: Free ($0.00)
An article on Augmentative and Alternative Communication, June 2007 written by Diane Nelson Bryen, Blyden B. Potts, and Allison C. Carey. A study of job requirement processes, and hiring processes of 27 employers in the United States. Interviews with employers focused on 48 jobs in 25 categories, many identified as desirable by 38 adults AAC users.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Stories to Be Told: Selected Poems of Robert R. Williams-2003
*Order for Delivery
Price: $9.50
In this second selection of his poetry, Robert Williams tells of the struggles and strengths of individuals with significant disabilities. Williams challenges us to take the good with the bad, all our joys and sorrows, and to somehow fashion them into better tomorrows.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Supporting Diverse Learners in School and in the Community - A Training Curriculum in Three Parts
*Order for Delivery
Price: $100.00
Part 1: Introduction to Inclusive Education. Provides trainers with materials to deliver an overview of inclusive education to teachers, administrators, parents, guardians, people with disabilities and family members. Includes Trainer Guide, slides, handouts, etc.
Part 2: Making Friends and Building a Social Network--what, why and how of facilitating relationship-building
Part 3: Collaboration: The Key to Success. Addresses collaboration and creative problem solving in order to give school teams a stronger framework from which to support students' inclusive educational experience.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD The Walking Project - An Anthology of Poems by People with Disabilities
*Order for Delivery
Price: $10.00
A collection of poems by disabled writers about the concept of walking. Uniquely combined with the work of talented Philadelphia area photographer J.J. Tiziou.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Under Arrest: Understanding The Criminal Justice Process in Pennsylvania
*Order for Delivery
Price: $25.00
A step-by-step review of the criminal justice process - from the arrest, through the preliminary arraignment, preliminary hearing, arraignment, trial, sentencing and possible incarceration, and probation and parole - to help ensure individuals with disabilities and the people who support them, as well as the general public, receive equal justice.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD Unequal Justice: The Case for Johnny Lee Wilson
*Order for Delivery
Price: $10.00
In 1986, Johnny Lee Wilson, a 19 year old man with mental retardation who was arrested for murder, unknowingly waived his right to an attorney, confessed to the crime, and spent nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Examines case from a disabilities perspective.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD What it Means to be Different, What it Means to be Human plus Letters to Sam
*Order for Delivery
Price: $30.00
Purchase both Dr. Gottlieb's presentation on DVD and his latest book (ID: 713 and ID: 714) and receive a special price!
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.
IOD What It Means to be Different, What it Means to be Human - A Presentation by Daniel Gottlieb, PhD.
*Order for Delivery
Price: $15.00
Recorded at the Spring 2007 Mini Course Series on Disabilities, Institute on Disabilities at Temple University. Dr. Gottlieb shares his unique perspective on what it means to be human and on the evolving understanding on the nature of disability. His story-telling ability, his personal experiences and his reading of the profound letters to his grandson Sam included in his latest book "Letters to Sam" make this DVD a moving and enlightening experience.
The price of this item includes all shipping costs. Please provide your shipping address during the checkout process.