Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...

Two Georgetown University professors discussed their writings on disability studies at an Oct. 23 event. Reynolds emphasized the value of disability studies in bettering the lives of individuals and ...

This post was updated on Nov. 12 at 10:05 p.m. UCLA is offering a new Bachelor of Arts in disability studies, which aims to bridge academic theories with lived experience and encourage students to ...

While Hutchinson explored different academic paths in the first semester of her junior year, her advisor recommended the new major, though she did not realize at the time how significant her decision ...

Medical technology is often viewed as a neutral tool for healing or curing; however, for many disabled people, it represents a complex power dynamic between their own lived experiences and clinical ...

Disability studies is about more than rejecting the stigmatizing assumptions held by many in society, write Sharon L. Snyder, an assistant professor in the department of disability and human ...

Disability Studies and Critical Education represent an interdisciplinary field that interrogates traditional conceptions of disability and advocates for systemic transformation in educational settings ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

A few years ago, curriculum specialist Richard Cairn showed a photo from the World War II era to two young men he was working with on a campaign to promote teaching disability history. The image shows ...

Miller is a leading expert in the early identification of autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. She will ...

Disability studies and technological mediation explore how devices, digital systems and design frameworks intersect with lived experiences of impairment, autonomy and social inclusion. Rooted in the ...