Purdue's new Critical Disability Studies Program will host a symposium Thursday (Feb. 18) to examine an array of issues regarding disability and inclusion. The Critical Disability Studies Symposium, ...

Starting next fall at the University of Minnesota, a new three-year project will host virtual workshops, reading groups and speaker events focusing on the experiences of people with disabilities using ...

A Critical Disability Studies Working Group is working to highlight how ableist assumptions about the body, cognition and perception promote a limited range of understanding what it means to be human.

This course is being offered as part of a collaborative initiative between Disability Matters, a pan-national research programme based at the University of Sheffield, and the Department of Psychology ...

This interdisciplinary minor examines disability from perspectives in health sciences, humanities and social sciences. Gaining a well-rounded understanding of disability history, rights, and lived ...

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 ...

Research indicates that dementia has overtaken cancer as the condition that people most fear. The notion of dementia as both a terrifying illness and a significant societal threat is the result of a ...

After about three years of advocacy by the Disability Studies Minor Working Group, Georgetown is set to offer a new minor on disability studies this fall after it was approved by the Georgetown ...

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 ...

Introducing Critical Disability Studies: Indian Contexts, Global Perspectives A collaborative initiative between Disability Matters and the Department of Psychology at Kamala Nehru College, University ...