Information Resources
- Disability Studies Academic Community
The DISC website is an international, interdisciplinary, user-generated, digital forum providing support, collegial networks, and information that sustains a disability studies academic community and promotes disability studies in a humanities focus. DISC is built by the disability studies community through your contributions of information.
- Disability Studies Quarterly
DSQ is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that compose multidisciplinary disability studies. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.
- Society for Disability Studies
The Society for Disability Studies works to explore issues of disability and chronic illness from scholarly perspectives. Members include social scientists, health researchers, and humanities scholars as well as those active in the disability rights movement. Publishes the Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) and holds an annnual conference which brings together scholars from a broad spectrum of fields as well as community-based activists.
- Disability
Studies for Teachers website
This website contains lesson plans and materials designed to help teachers
integrate disability studies into social studies, history, literature, and
related subjects in grades 6-12. The plans and materials also can be adapted for
use in postsecondary education.
University Programs
- Canadian Centre on Disability Studies
The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies is a consumer-directed, university affiliated centre dedicated to research, education and information dissemination on disability issues. Through our activities we promote full and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of society.
- Center on Disability Studies; University of Hawaii
The Center on Disability Studies (CDS) is a University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents recognized Center focused upon development and conduct of interdisciplinary education/training, research/demonstration and evaluation, and university and community service.
- Center for Disabilities Studies, University of Delaware
Located at the University of Delaware, the Center for Disabilities Studies is one of over sixty University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in the country. CDS is active in five kinds of activities designed to expand and improve services available to Delawareans with disabilities and their families, including: University education, community education, technical assistance and program evaluation, research and demonstration, and dissemination
- Centre for Disability Studies—United Kingdom
CDS is an interdisciplinary centre for teaching and research in the field of disability studies at the University of Leeds (England). The Centre incorporates and develops the work of the Disability Research Unit (DRU) and aims to promote international excellence within the field.
- Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies; University of Calgary—Canada
Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies (CRDS) supports individuals, families and small groups affected by disabling conditions and chronic health concerns to live, learn, work and participate in their communities. CRDS provides education, design delivery and management of community-based services that offer short-term assistance and ongoing support.
- Disability Studies at Syracuse University
Disability studies is designed to help students understand and work to overcome the barriers to full participation of people with disabilities in society.
- Texas Center for Disability Studies
The mission of the Texas Center for Disability Studies is to serve as a catalyst so that people with developmental, and other disabilities, are fully included in all levels of their communities and in control of their lives.
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