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The films will be closed captioned. Audio described videos will also be available. Registrants will receive an email with the event Zoom link before the event.

About the films (total runtime 42 minutes):

what Billy couldn't say: This chronicle of a death foretold shares the tragic story of Billy, a severely autistic young man who was let down by every system designed to support him. Coming from a family that couldn’t pay for private insurance Billy never received the care he needed. The cheapest and quickest option left on the table was the use of heavy psychotropic medications. At the age of 18, Billy died of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome a cardiac arrest caused by overmedication. This film explores the connection between poverty and poor health care and how it can lead to a catastrophic ending, particularly when the patient is disabled and non-speaking.

Let Me Explain: Police encounters are the worst nightmare for most people with Autism and their families. What could happen when the police start giving you direct orders and your body does not allow you to follow those directions? Built-up out of disturbing archival footage and a unique behind the scenes look at LAPD Autism Awareness Training, Let Me Explain takes a hard and deep look into the increasing interactions between police and people with autism, some of which go terribly wrong.

Inside the Frame: The behind the scenes documentary Inside the Frame provides an honest and heartfelt account of the difficulties students, autistic self-advocates, and faculty of the Autism Media Lab faced as they tried to practice inclusion both behind and in front of the camera.

About the Autism Media Lab: The 2019 Autism Media Lab was the inaugural lab of the UCLA Disability Studies Inclusion Labs. The Autism Media Lab explored barriers to inclusion for persons with autism through a unique fusion of disability studies and documentary film. In this unique two-quarter course, UCLA undergraduate students were learning directly from non-speaking, minimally-speaking, or unreliably-speaking individuals with autism as Community Teachers. Together, they filmed short documentaries that explored how autistic people navigate communication barriers in various community settings.

Intellectual Disabilities - Alicia Bazzano, MD, PhD | Pediatric Grand Rounds

16% of UCLA undergraduate students have a disability. Help empower this growing population through accessible curriculum design and web content. In this session, you will learn the challenges for people with disabilities, understand the impact of assistive technology and screenreading software to “read text out loud”, and receive hands-on experience building an accessible document. We will also discuss some of the principals of Universal Design for Learning and how they might be applied in your course and research documents.

For all trainings, please bring your laptop. If needed, a laptop can be provided for you.

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, if you have one or one can be provided for you.

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, if you have one or one can be provided for you.

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 is the disability community here at UCLA, learn about the challenges facing the disabled community and become member of a growing and dynamic group.

PDF is one of the most common document formats at UCLA. 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 PDF documents created are completely inaccessible or frustrating for screenreader users. Public PDFs posted on websites, PDF course reading material and PDFs emailed to listservs should be accessible. At this training, you will have the opportunity to get hands-on training in making an accessible PDF.

Please bring a laptop with Adobe Acrobat installed. If you do not have a laptop one will be provided for you at the Learning Lab.

Training Dates:

August 8, 2019 @ 10:30am-12:00pm

August 28, 2019 @ 10:30am-12:00pm

*All sessions are the same agenda and format, so please only register for one. 

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training you should be able to:

• Describe what PDF accessibility is and why it important
• Properly scan a book or paper to convert to PDF
• Run the PDF accessibility checker