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 ...

For more than half a century, the Brandeis University community has championed the rights of people with disabilities, part of the school’s commitment to social justice. In 1967, Professor Gunnar ...

The experience of disabled people in the United States is significantly shaped by health and social policy and policy administration, which are all too often designed by non-disabled people situated ...

Very few people with disabilities have access to tertiary education. Pusat Studi dan Layanan Disabilitas, Universitas Brawijaya, Author provided To remove the barriers that discriminate against people ...

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...

In the fall of 2023, the UAB School of Health Professions launched an undergraduate program in Disability Studies and Rehabilitation Science. This year, the program unveiled a minor option to the ...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Health Professions recently launched a new undergraduate degree in disability studies and rehabilitation science. The new program is already accepting ...

Disabled people are disproportionately incarcerated and segregated from society through a variety of institutions. Still, the links between disability and incarceration are underexplored, limiting ...

This study refined and further tested a health promotion workshop intervention for women aging with disabilities and developed and established the feasibility and efficacy of an online health ...

“Expressing sexuality is part of the human experience, yet sexual health education is often ignored in regard to persons with disabilities,” Anna Treacy, sexual health educator and University of ...