In the United States, 14 million children (approximately 19%) under the age of 18 and 61 million adults (approximately 26%) live with a special healthcare need. These needs are defined as having or ...

Many classic works of literature are rife with themes of mental and physical disability. Theres the iconic hunchback in Victor HugosNotre-Dame de Paris,disability asentertainmentinThe Elephant Man,the ...

Jaime Freilich '13 was scrambling to find a course for her schedule when a friend persuaded her to try an ILR School disability studies class. In the spring, the human development major begins a ...

The students in nursing professor Lauren Clark’s class sat rapt as guest speaker Susy Thiele described a recent frustrating visit to see a gynecologist. Thiele, who lives with cerebral palsy and uses ...

UTSA's population of students with disabilities represents a variety of disability groups that fluctuates from semester to semester. A typical long semester will include students who may have a visual ...

A series of new learning disability nursing programmes are being launched across England in a bid to tackle the “crisis” state of nursing shortages in the sector, an investigation by Nursing Times has ...

The Disability Studies Minor Working Group collaborated with three academic departments this semester to establish Georgetown’s first Disability Studies Course Cluster, a program that engages three ...

The future of Stanford’s introductory course on disability studies — offered for the first time last fall — remains uncertain, following the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education’s (VPUE) ...

Almost half of universities with pre-registration learning disability nursing courses have discussed terminating their programmes next year due to student recruitment difficulties, a new survey has ...

College psychology curricula are missing important information on disabilities, according to a new study. Published in Teaching of Psychology, the study analyzed the titles and descriptions of nearly ...