Whether or not they are explicitly made, there are a lot of threads of disability in movies and TV shows.

With film being our primary medium these days, that means that there are near-endless ways to talk about disability with your kids. You just need to know what your kids are watching, be ready to hit the “pause” button, and/or keep track of the content and see the threads so that you can talk about it with them later.

Questions for the Conscious Parent

If you don’t have a disability yourself (and sometimes even if you do), your antenna might not be as tuned in or ready to dissect things that are disability-related online.

It might take you a while to kind of zero in on problematic portrayals of disability, or 
 

objectively view the messages that your child is consuming that relates to disability.

So you really want to hold some questions in your mind as you watch media and examine how disability is presented.

These questions can include:

• Is this empowering?
• Does this ultimately inspire pity or not? Why or why not?
• f the aspect of disability was replaced with another minority group, would it inspire the same feelings or even be socially acceptable?
• Are there other pieces in play here – what about the role of race, wealth and privilege for a given character?

• The idea is to really think about the how’s, why’s and wherefore’s of given media and disability portrayal.

  It’s not to be a negative nelly or prove some point; it’s just to figure out what is being said, both explicitly and implicitly.

  Source: https://www.meriahnichols.com/how-to-talk-about-disability-in-movies-with-kids/