Disability Awareness Calendar
This is a sum of  Disability Awareness Calendar , which includes Disability Awareness Months and Disability Awareness Days. It also has some bonus (- non-disability-related) awareness months and days!
There is a downloadable pdf included.
Disability Awareness Months
There are a lot of disability awareness months and disability awareness days throughout the year. It can get a little overwhelming some months (like April and October – what is it with squeezing ALL THE AWARENESS into a single month?!) But it’s still really useful for some of us to be aware of what we can make a collective focus on, or when to plan out our disability awareness trainings and so forth.
So, here we go, all the disability awareness months with links to more information about the given month!
(the downloadable pdf is at the end of this post)
January Disability Awareness Months & Days
Birth Defects Prevention Month​​
Glaucoma Awareness Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
January 4 – World Braille Day​​
January 14 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 24 – Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day
January 26 – Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day
January 27 – World Leprosy Day
January 30 – CTE Awareness Day
February
American Heart Month​​
Black History Month (African-American History Month) – #BlackDisabledHistoryMonth
Deaf History Month
Low Vision Awareness Month
National Cancer Prevention Month
Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance & Inclusion Month
February 2 – Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day
February 4 – World Cancer Day
February 7 – Go Red for Women Day (American Heart Association)
February 9-15 – Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) Awareness Week
February 17 – Random Acts of Kindness Day
February 23 – February 29 – National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 27 – Anosmia Awareness Day
February 29 – Rare Disease Day
March
Bleeding Disorder Awareness Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Awareness Month​​
Developmental Disabilities Month
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month
National Women’s History Month
March 1 – International Wheelchair Day​​
March 5 – Multiple Personality Day
March 8 – International Women’s Day​​
March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
March 21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
March 24 – World Tuberculosis Day
March 26 – Purple Day for Epilepsy
March 30 – World Bipolar Day
Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash
April
Autism Acceptance Month​​
Limb Loss Awareness Month
Parkinson’s Awareness Month
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Awareness Month
Stress Awareness Month
April 2 – World Autism Awareness Day
April 7 – World Health Day
April 11 – Parkinson’s Disease International Awareness Day
April 22 – Earth Day
May
ALS Awareness Month​​
Apraxia Awareness Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month​​
Health Vision Awareness Month
Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Mental Health Month​​​​
Military Appreciation Month
National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
Stroke Awareness Month
Williams Syndrome Month
May 1 – International Labor Day
May 5 – World Asthma Day
May 10 – World Lupus Day
May 10 – May 16 – Women’s Health Week
May 12 – Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
May 12 – International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases (CIND)
May 14 – Apraxia Awareness Day
May 15 – June 15 – Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month
May 17 – International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia
May 21 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
May 21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
May 24 – World Schizophrenia Day
May 25 – Memorial Day
May 30 – World Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Day
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June Disability Awareness Months and Disability Awareness Days
Cataract Awareness Month​​
Headaches Awareness Month
LGBTQ Pride Month
Men’s Health Month
June 7 – National Cancer Survivors Day
June 18 – Autistic Pride Day (interesting post on reasons why we need this is linked here)
June 27 – U.S. National Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Day
July
Disability Pride Month (NY)​​
July 4 – Independence Day​​
July 26 – ADA Awareness Day
July 28 – World Hepatitis Day
August​​​
August 7 – Purple Heart Day​​
August 17 – National Nonprofit Day
August 21 – National Senior Citizens Day
August 26 – Women’s Equality Day
September
Deaf Awareness Month
Leukemia & Lymphoma Awareness Month
MDA National Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Month
National Service Dog Month​​
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month​​
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Sickle Cell Awareness Month
Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month
World Suicide Prevention Month
September 2 – Labor Day
September 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day
September 15 – World Lymphoma Awareness Day
September 21 – World Alzheimer’s Day
September 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
September 29 – World Heart Day
October
NDEAM National Disability Employment Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dwarfism Awareness Month
Learning Disabilities Awareness Month
LGBTQ History Month
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Month
October 4 – October 10 – Mental Health Awareness Week
October 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 8 – World Blind Day / World Sight Day
October 10 – World Arthritis Day
October 10 – World Mental Health Day
October 24 – United Nations Day
October 25 – World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day
November
Alzheimer’s Awareness Month​​
​Diabetes Awareness Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month​​
National Family Caregivers Month
National Native American Heritage Month
Prostate Cancer / Men’s Health Awareness Month
Transgender Awareness Month
November 11 – Veterans Day​​
November 13 – World Kindness Day
November 14 – World Diabetes Day
November 16 – International Day for Tolerance
November 18 – World COPD Day
November 21 – Pancreatic Cancer Day
December​​
December 1 – World AIDS Day​​
December 1 – Giving Tuesday
December 3 – International Day of People with Disabilities
December 10 – Human Rights Day
Such a long Disability Awareness Calendar, with so many months and days.
Which I guess is a good thing, to nudge us all in the direction of understanding more.
Download your calendar here or by clicking the button below.
(Either way will take you to Gumroad, and you just select that you want it, and put in that you want to pay 0 for it (- or if you do want to chip into expenses for keeping this stuff running, that would be great! thanks – if not, no worries). From there, you put in your email address (which I do not store or start some marketing thing with you for) and it’s sent automatically to you.)
