Disability and Media Alliance Project

In 2008, DREDF launched the Disability & Media Alliance Project (D-MAP). The goal of the program is to change the focus from sensational, cloying and misinformed disability coverage that undermines the public policy and legal advances of the last 25 years to coverage that raises public awareness and helps to end disability discrimination.

D-MAP establishes a mechanism for monitoring and informing disability coverage in news reports, dramatic representations, and reporting on the Internet with the goal to advance accurate reporting of disability issues and promote positive images of people with disabilities.