Study in this area of emphasis on issues of disability as they apply to education and human service agencies. Students may focus broadly across disability areas and age ranges, or they may focus more ...

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 ...

UCLA junior Vivek Chotai doesn’t plan to pursue his school’s new disability studies major — the first of its kind at any public university in the state — or even take classes in it. Yet for 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 ...

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 ...

Thanks in part to the overwhelming popularity of UCLA’s 16-year-old disability studies minor, the campus has launched a new disability studies interdepartmental major — the first such major at any ...

Professor Julia Watts Belser has helped lead the creation of a disability studies course cluster. About 320 members of the Georgetown community have signed a petition calling for the university to ...

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 ...

A group of international students from the College of Global Liberal Arts of Ritsumeikan University in Japan took part in an ...