This interdisciplinary minor examines disability from perspectives in health sciences, humanities and social sciences. Gaining a well-rounded understanding of disability history, rights, and lived ...

On Oct. 13, disability studies took center stage in Red Square at Ramping Up for Access, an event hosted by the Disability Cultural Initiative. Amy Kenny, inaugural director of the initiative, remarks ...

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

This story features Beeline Reader for enhanced readability. Click to turn the feature on or off. Learn more about this technology here. “One of the greatest contributing factors to lower achievement ...

It’s surprisingly common for children to have both conditions, CU Boulder researcher Erik Willcutt argues in a recently published paper “A lot of kids tend to have both learning and attentional ...

Andrew Q. Kang ’27, a Crimson Editorial comper, lives in Grays Hall. For a discipline that seeks to understand the experiences of up to one-in-four Americans and 1.3 billion people worldwide, there is ...

Undergraduate, graduate and professional students are advocating for the institution of an official disability studies department at Yale. The Yale Disability Studies Network, a multidisciplinary ...

Learning disabilities are disorders that affect one's ability in the domains of spoken or written language, mathematical calculation, attention, or the coordination of movement. They can occur in ...

As a teacher, you want all of your students to reach their academic potential. However, not everyone learns at the same pace or in the same way. That means you need to be prepared to provide ...

What do learning disability therapists do? Various therapists can help treat learning disabilities. These may include occupational therapists, who will typically work with a child to improve their ...

Do you seek to improve quality of life for individuals with disabilities and those that need rehabilitation? Do you wish to design devices for those with disabilities, work in health-related ...