Disability Studies

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

• Boston University Deaf Studies Program
  The BU Deaf Studies Program is one of the oldest and most renowned programs in deaf education. It is the only program in the United States dedicated to theoretical and applied research in deafness with a particular focus on a bilingual/bicultural approach to communication for the Deaf and for teachers of the Deaf.
• Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
  Maine's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service offer education in Disability Studies through classroom, on-line, workshop and conference settings.
• 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.

• Center for Literacy and Disability Studies - North Carolina
  Has a mission is to promote literacy and communication for individuals of all ages with disabilities.

• 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.

• Deaf Studies at California State University, Northridge
  CSUN is proud to be one of only two institutions in the nation that offers a comprehensive undergraduate program in the area of Deaf Studies. It has long been acknowledged as a leader in providing quality education in a broad variety of fields relating to deafness and is unequaled in terms of its exceptionally skilled and dedicated faculty, a special student body, and extensive resources.

• Disability Studies at Syracuse University - New York
  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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