Research & Academic Scholarship

A study was conducted that examined readily available syllabi from library and information sciences graduate programs to discover what their instructors taught library graduate students about accessibility and disability through an analysis of the structure and topics of their syllabi. Of the 149 courses identified, 77 syllabi were available to examine. Findings include a lack of consistency and accuracy across syllabi structure, as well as components like poor citations, an emphasis on digital accessibility above all other types as a topic, and a lack of learning assessment on the topics of accessibility and disability. This syllabi analysis indicates that while accessibility and disability is being taught in library and information science programs, it is relatively spotty in terms of diversity of content, with a generally narrow focus on digital objects and web materials, as well as generally poor syllabus design which sends the message that accessibility and disability issues are generally unimportant.

Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability Summer 2016 Contact Information Talila A. Lewis ---.---.---- (voice/text)* ---.---.---- (videophone) talila.a.lewis@gmail.com (e-mail) *also available for video- & text-based real-t...

for Direct Work with Children and Adults by Social Workers

Recent coverage in higher education newspapers and social media platforms implies that chronic conditions, illnesses and disabilities are becoming more prominent amongst academics. Changes to fundi...

Rachel Blick, MA , Matthew Franklin, BA, David Ellsworth, MPH, Susan Havercamp, PhD, Barbara Kornblau, JD, OTR/L, FAOTA, The Ohio State University Nisonger Center, UCEDD, Florida A&M University

a Media Study (2013-2015) and Overview David M. Perry, PhD Lawrence Carter-Long March 2016

This paper challenges the notion of “care”, arguing that people who need support in their daily lives have been constructed as “dependent people”. Instead, the author argues, if we want to empower pe...

The ongoing struggle by people with disabilities to gain full citizenship is an important part of our American heritage. The disability rights movement shares many similarities with other 20th-century civil rights struggles by those who have been denied equality, independence, autonomy, and full access to society. This exhibition looks at the efforts - far from over - of people with disabilities, and their families and friends, to secure the civil rights guaranteed to all Americans. These people only want to be treated the same as everyone else. So they often have to fight to be included.

Frédéric Mégret, The Disabilities Convention: Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities or Disability Rights?, Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2 (May, 2008), pp. 494-516

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

In the past two decades Americans with a broad array of physical and mental disabilities have formed a social movement seeking rights for disabled people— the disability rights movement.

NCSL's Disability Employment Database tracks current bills and legislation in all 50 states addressing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

Here at the ADA Center we get a lot of questions from callers to our toll-free information line and from participants in our training sessions about laws

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was created to prohibit discrimination based on disability. Although many individuals filed claims alleging discrimination in the workplace based on disability, the federal courts, led by the U.S. Supreme Court, adopted an increasingly constricted interpreta …

Disability as a classification for equal protection stands at a jurisprudential crossroads.

“Disability Justice: An Audit Tool” is aimed at helping Black, Indigenous and POC-led organizations (that are not primarily focused on disability) examine where they’re at in practicing disability justice, and where they want to learn and grow. It includes questions for self-assessment, links to access tools, organizational stories and more. Fill out the form below to download a PDF of the tool.

Jennifer Kindred Mitchell, Teaching to Neurodiverse Law Students, 29 Persps. 49 (2022).

The free report, “Accessibility in Libraries: A Landscape Report,” is created as part of ALA’s longtime Libraries Transforming Communities initiative.

For decades, legal academia has been structured around a hierarchical caste system, with tenured and tenure-track doctrinal law professors—many of whom are men—

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