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

The fall semester brings the establishment of the new Center for Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) at the University of Minnesota. When the RIGS initiative was ...

On Oct. 13, disability studies took center stage in Red Square at Ramping Up for Access, an event hosted by the Disability Cultural Initiative. Amy Kenny, inaugural director of the initiative, remarks ...

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 ...

Braille signs to direct people to elevators. Signs on accessible bathroom stalls asking people to not use them unless others aren’t available. In Miami University’s Introduction to Disability Studies ...

No grandmothers died. No dogs ate homework. No computers corrupted term papers. And so it was that Carolyn Shivers’ students used no such excuses when turning in assignments — and she knows why. The ...

The University of Texas has established the first Disability Cultural Center in the state this semester to serve as an on-campus hub for university members with disabilities. The center aims to ...

Do you seek to improve quality of life for individuals with disabilities and those that need rehabilitation? Do you wish to design devices for those with disabilities, work in health-related ...

Append the word “critical” to an academic field of study and voilà, the field comes across as cutting-edge and au courant. Nor are critical studies programs confined to the most elite campuses. To ...

UAB continues to prioritize disability health research and expand its footprint in the growing field of inclusion science. Recently receiving approval from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education ...