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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Georgetown University professor published the second issue of a research journal on the philosophical study of disability in November exploring the diverse meanings of disability in society.

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 ...

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 month, Mattel released a first-of-its-kind doll in their “fashionista’s line,” a new Barbie with autism. Frances ...

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 ...

While Hutchinson explored different academic paths in the first semester of her junior year, her advisor recommended the new major, though she did not realize at the time how significant her decision ...

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 ...