Medical technology is often viewed as a neutral tool for healing or curing; however, for many disabled people, it represents ...

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 ...

4:31 p.m. Nov. 28, 2023: A previous version of this story misstated the department where CSUN’s disability minor is housed. It is an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Humanities. UCLA junior ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Department is offering a Disability Studies course which strives to have an interdisciplinary approach. Credit: Anna Vazhaeparambil Penn’s Gender, Sexuality ...

Cognitive impairment is more common and severe in older adults with MS than in younger patients, but this is driven by ...

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 ...