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 ...

What are the Paralympic Games? How are they related to the Olympic Games? The Paralympic Games got their start in 1948, with a wheelchair competition organized by a group of British war veterans; the ...

Are you interested in working with individuals with disabilities to improve their quality of life, access, and participation in their community? Maybe your long-term goals are to work in the ...

1 in 5. This is the proportion of Americans that have a disability according to the US Census. Disability is one of the largest marginalized groups in the United States. Yet, instead of investing in ...

Undergraduate, graduate and professional students are advocating for the institution of an official disability studies department at Yale. The Yale Disability Studies Network, a multidisciplinary ...

Following extensive research and personal experience, Jereme Wilroy, Ph.D., associate professor in UAB's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, found that many public health professionals ...

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 ...

A scholar of linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of disability, UChicago graduate student Sharon Seegers conducts research on sign language interpreters in Hanoi. Her work focuses on the ways ...

The home of the first doctoral program in women's studies in the SUNY system, the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies offers a rigorous interdisciplinary PhD in women's, gender and ...

The Office of Disability Resources, Drexel University is currently looking to hire one part-time graduate student position for assistance with student accommodations. The Graduate Assistant, Student ...