Reviews

Publisher: Wisconsin Council on Developmental Disabilities
Format: Video, 11 minutes
Written and Produced: Lisa Pugh
Photographed and Directed: John Schwartz

The Believing, Belonging, Becoming: Building Welcoming Faith Communities video from the WCDD shows the stories of 4 persons with disabilities and how they participate in their faith communities.

From the website: "See how faith communities have formed worship support circles, fostered one-to-one relationships, and committed resources to promote inclusion."

Publisher: The Haworth Pastoral Press
Editors: William C. Gaventa, Jr., MDiv, David L. Coulter, MD
Format: Book, 182 pp.

Spirituality and Intellectual Disability: International Perspectives on the Effect of Culture and Religion on Healing Body, Mind , and Soul was co-published as an issue of the Journal of Religion, Disability & Health (Volume 5, Numbers 2/3 2001). It includes "a collection of articles on spirituality, religion, and people with intellectual disabilities which came from presentations at the 2000 Conference of the the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities" (IASSID).

That All May Worship: An Interfatih Welcome to People With Disabilities
Publisher: National Organization on Disability, 2000
Editor: Ginny Thornburgh
Co-Authors: Ann Rose Davie, Ginny Thornburgh
Format: Handbook, 52 pp.

That All May Worship is an interfaith manual published by the National Organization on Disability.

From the introduction...

The purpose of the Handbook, That All May Worship, is to assist congregations, denominational groups and seminaries in welcoming people with disabilities. The Handbook is interfaith in scope and concerns people with all types of disabilities. The foundation of the House of God is weakened for all if barriers of attitude, communication or architecture prevent people with disabiliteis from participating fully in the worship, study, service and leadership of their congregation. That All May Worship is a step-by-step "coaching manual" written to enable congregations to identify and remove these barriers