Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leroy Moore, a disabled scholar studying at UCLA, is a writer, poet and community activist who for years has been speaking out for ...

Beginning in the fall semester, students in the Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences will have the option to declare a major in disability studies. The major will build on the program’s ...

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 ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - After 182 years since its opening, students at Roanoke College will have the opportunity to pursue a degree in Disability Studies. Professors and students at Roanoke College have ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

Two Georgetown University professors discussed their writings on disability studies at an Oct. 23 event. Reynolds emphasized the value of disability studies in bettering the lives of individuals and ...

CSUN’s College of Humanities celebrated the launch of its new Disability Studies minor by hosting attorney, disability rights activist, and Autistic People of Color Fund founder Xinzhen Zh?ngsun ...

This fall, Rutgers University–New Brunswick will introduce a new minor in disability studies. With one in four adults in the U.S. living with a disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Dickinson has received a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to add to its groundbreaking work in literary disability studies, and phase II, “Building a Health Humanities Program,” ...

O n a morning in February, Therí A. Pickens, an English professor and chair of the Africana program at Bates College, logged onto her email and saw a Google alert that said her work would be cited in ...

At the same time, everyone wants to be comfortable, at work, school, or socially, and failure to reveal a hidden disability ...

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 ...