Ollibean is a dynamic community of parents, families and advocates in the disability community

working together for a more socially just, accessible and inclusive world.

Love.  Acceptance.

We humans thrive in loving and accepting environments connected to people that believe in us.

Equal Opportunities. 

High expectations, safe and welcoming environments, robust and accessible academics, and meaningful social opportunities are every human’s right.

It’s time.

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Together we’re stronger. 

You Belong.

Everywhere.

inclusion -- a right, not a privilege

Closing the Opportunity Gap for Disabled Children 

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Free and easy to use resources to improve literacy skills for all ages.

Advocating for Inclusive Education 

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Strategies and over 30 years of research on the benefits of inclusion.

Connect with Others in the Disability Community

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Connections — we’re stronger together.

Know Your Child’s Rights

Accessibility, Accommodations, Supports and Services
Respectful  supports, services and accommodations for students with disabilities.
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Strength in Our Diversity.

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We’re in this together.

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Disability Advocacy in Action

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Inclusion Resources

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Ollibean Mama

parenting children with and without disabilities with respect and love

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AAC

Not being able to speak is not the same as not having anything to say.

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Ableism

Prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination against disabled people on the basis of actual or presumed disability.

Our relationships and well-being are linked. How we treat each other is a reflection of the kind of world we want to live in.

Alice Wong

Whenever we have brought ourselves together, whenever we have joined various disabilities together, we find our strength. Our strength is in our unity. And our strength is in our righteousness. Because this is a cause that we’ve all invested our life in.

Ed Roberts

Actually, disability is not something one overcomes. Stories that claim successful people with disabilities overcame their disabilities mislead the public. The barriers exist not in the person, but in the physical, social, and digital environment. People with disabilities and their communities succeed when the community decides to dismantle digital, attitudinal, and physical barriers. My success at school, in the office, and even on the dance floor were facilitated by communities that chose to practice inclusion.

Haben Girma

In my early twenties I began to think, surely the same framework that had taught me to reject racist, sexist, ageist and homophobic messages the world told me about what it meant to be a young queer Asian woman, would also reject the message that disability was ugly and something to be pitied and cured.

Mia Mingus

And that’s the greatest example, that we, who are considered the weakest, the most helpless people in our society, are the strongest, and will not tolerate segregation, will not tolerate a society which sees us as less than whole people.

Ed Roberts

I have learned that it is so much easier to respect my neurology and work with it than it is to learn to copy the behaviors of neuromajority folks.

Judy Endow, Ollibean Blog

Acting normatively, doing things in a normative way, only feeds the already well-nourished ableism. The majority’s way is not the right way, nor it is the only way. Teaching compliance goes against acceptance.

Amy Sequenzia, Ollibean Blog

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