Many classic works of literature are rife with themes of mental and physical disability. Theres the iconic hunchback in Victor HugosNotre-Dame de Paris,disability asentertainmentinThe Elephant Man,the ...

Jaime Freilich '13 was scrambling to find a course for her schedule when a friend persuaded her to try an ILR School disability studies class. In the spring, the human development major begins a ...

The Disability Studies Minor Working Group collaborated with three academic departments this semester to establish Georgetown’s first Disability Studies Course Cluster, a program that engages three ...

In the United States, 14 million children (approximately 19%) under the age of 18 and 61 million adults (approximately 26%) live with a special healthcare need. These needs are defined as having or ...

An anthology featuring an essay by Lydia Brown (COL ’15), a student activist for disability rights, will be used as coursework in a new anthropology course called “Disability and Culture,” taught by ...

UTSA's population of students with disabilities represents a variety of disability groups that fluctuates from semester to semester. A typical long semester will include students who may have a visual ...

Psychology classes are among the most popular courses on college campuses today, but new research shows that many of them lack important information about the largest single minority group in the U.S.

College psychology curricula are missing important information on disabilities, according to a new study. Published in Teaching of Psychology, the study analyzed the titles and descriptions of nearly ...

The future of Stanford’s introductory course on disability studies — offered for the first time last fall — remains uncertain, following the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education’s (VPUE) ...