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.

Critical Disability Studies uses intersectional, justice-oriented frameworks to challenge disablism and ableism. Through co-produced and participatory research, we seek to reimagine disability as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Rembis is an expert on disability history, including the history of madness. He is director of the Center for Disability Studies at UB and has worked with colleagues around the world to expand ...

Communities of Care Symposium 2025: Celebrate. Create Solidarity. Share Knowledge. The two-day event brings together community members, students, faculty, and others to share their work on care and ...