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2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide

Emily Ladau, Kate Caldwell

December 9, 2025

The 2025 disability holiday gift guide includes gifts from disabled-owned small businesses, books to deepen your understanding of disability, and disability-led causes to support this season.

Citation

Ladau, E., & Caldwell, K. (2025, December 9). 2025 disability holiday gift guide [Guide].

A festive graphic titled "The Original Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2024." The text "Holiday Gift Guide" is written in elegant green cursive, while "The Original Disability" and "2024" are in bold red text. Below, a dark brown banner with white text reads, "By Emily Ladau & Kate Caldwell - Check out gift guides from past years below!" The background is beige with decorative elements such as holly leaves, berries, and snowflakes scattered throughout, giving it a holiday-themed design.

2024 Disability Holiday Gift Guide

Kate Caldwell, Emily Ladau

December 6, 2024

The annual and original disability holiday gift guide includes a curated list of books by disabled writers, items created by disabled entrepreneurs, and disability-led organizations to support.

Citation

Ladau, E., & Caldwell, K. (2024, December 6). 2024 disability holiday gift guide [Guide].

Goodwill comic that includes a conversation between two people. The first person states "Can any handicapped person find help with Goodwill Industries?" and the other responds "Yes, Bill. Handicaps aren't limited to class, color, or religion. Neither are there racial nor religious bars to employment in any of our 101 enterprises.

Subminimum Wage: A Tale of Policy Failure and... Social Entrepreneurship?

Kate Caldwell

November 21, 2023

Center for Racial & Disability Justice

Section 14(c) of the FLSA, which established subminimum wage, is a policy that ensures people with disabilities remain in poverty.

Citation

Caldwell, K. (2023, November 21). Subminimum wage: A tale of policy failure and… social entrepreneurship? Medium.

Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2023 graphic that reads "The Original Disability Holiday Gift Guide 2023 by Emily Ladau & Kate Caldwell"

2023 Disability Holiday Gift Guide

Kate Caldwell, Emily Ladau

November 16, 2023

The annual and original disability holiday gift guide includes a curated list of books by disabled writers, items created by disabled entrepreneurs, and disability-led organizations to support.

Citation

Ladau, E., & Caldwell, K. (2023, November 16). 2023 disability holiday gift guide [Gift guide].

Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Motivation Among People With Intellectual Disability: "Why They Act"

Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris, Maija Renko

December 8, 2020

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

This research approached the issue by conducting dyadic interviews to explore the motivations of people with ID who are participating and supported in social entrepreneurship—“why they act.”

Citation

Caldwell, K., Harris, S. P., & Renko, M. (2020). Inclusive entrepreneurship and motivation among people with intellectual disability:“Why they act”. Intellectual and developmental disabilities, 58(6), 499-512.

Inclusive Management for Social Entrepreneurs With Intellectual Disabilities: "How They Act"

Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris, Maija Renko

August 26, 2019

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

This research expands upon our understanding of social entrepreneurship and the management processes involved in customized employment for people with ID.

Citation

Caldwell, K., Parker Harris, S., & Renko, M. (2020). Inclusive management for social entrepreneurs with intellectual disabilities:“how they act”. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 33(2), 204-218.

Social Entrepreneurs with Disabilities: Exploring Motivational and Attitudinal Factors

Kate Caldwell, Sarah Parker Harris, Maija Renko

January 1, 2016

Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

This research frames its analysis in the intersection of disability studies and entrepreneurial studies to explore The motivational and attitudinal factors people with disabilities encounter in pursuing social entrepreneurship.

Citation

Caldwell, K., Harris, S. P., & Renko, M. (2016). Social entrepreneurs with disabilities: Exploring motivational and attitudinal factors. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 5(1), 211-244.