DISABILITY STUDIES
12/13/2023
Now Enrolling: Inclusive Education Pre-K-12 Micro-Credential
The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (ME UCEDD) was part of a collaborative team of faculty and staff with expertise in inclusive education that has developed an Inclusive Education Pre-K-12 Micro-Credential with funding from a competitive 2022-2023 mini-grant awarded by the University of Maine System Micro-Credential Initiative.
5/10/2022
Maine UCEDD Celebrates the Achievements of 22 Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Graduates
Twenty-two University of Maine students were honored on April 26th during the 2022 Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Celebration of Achievement. Dr. Alan Cobo-Lewis, Director of the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (ME UCEDD) and Associate Professor of Psychology delivered the opening welcome.
1/12/2022
Excellence in Autism Support Award Goes to Delaware UCEDD Research Manager
For her "Outstanding Research on Autism in Higher Education," Jessica Monahan, research manager with the University of Delaware Center for Disabilities Studies' Spectrum Scholars program, has won an inaugural Excellence in Autism Support award from the College Autism Network.
11/23/2020
Institute for Human Development Launches Fully-Online Disability Resource Specialist Graduate Certificate Program
The Institute for Human Development, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities housed at Northern Arizona University (NAU), will launch its brand new Disability Resource Specialist Graduate Certificate in Spring 2021
7/7/2020
University of Kansas Researchers Honored for Contributions to Disability Studies
Four University of Kansas researchers join three former presidents and four former senators of the United States as honorees among 87 recognized for transforming the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities during the past 20 years in the U.S. The honors, compiled in the National Honors Recognizing Significant Contributions in the Field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S. Between 2000 and 2020, include essays highlighting trends in the field. A consortium of intellectual disability organizations collaborated on the report, which comes 20 years after the group's first report looking back on 20th century achievements in the field.
2/26/2020
UToledo Offers New Graduate Certificate Focused on Working Professionals
1/24/2020
Institute for Disability Studies Transition Programs Win Awards (MS UCEDD)
During the 2019 award ceremony, which also marked the 30th anniversary of the Coalition, the Institute for Disability Studies (IDS), Mississippi's University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), received two of the six awards presented. One was presented to IDS for its Transition to Adulthood Programs and the other was awarded to Dr. Jerry R. Alliston, IDS' Associate Director, who oversees all transition to adulthood projects.
11/18/2019
Kentucky UCEDD Collaboration at ASHG
Staff representing University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities collaborated to deliver a presentation at the annual American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Houston, TX on October 18. Dr. Kara Ayers, Associate Director of the University of Cincinnati UCEDD, and Stephanie Meredith, Medical Outreach Director at The University of Kentucky Human Development Institute joined Dr. John Constantino, Director of the Washington University in St. Louis Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, Dr. Igna Van den Veyver a leading Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist from Baylor College of Medicine; Katie Stoll, Executive Director of the Genetic Support Foundation; and Dr. Marsha Michie, an anthropologist from Case Western Reserve University to address the intersection of disability and genetics. This presentation was made possible by ASHG, in collaboration with the Association of University Centers and NICHD.
8/8/2019
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers: Fifty Years of Scientific Accomplishments
Progress in addressing the origins of intellectual and developmental disabilities accelerated with the establishment 50 years ago of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health and associated Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers. Investigators at these Centers have made seminal contributions to understanding human brain and behavioral development and defining mechanisms and treatments of disorders of the developing brain.
7/22/2019
Students with Disabilities Blaze Trail at UT (TX UCEDD)
The University of Texas at Austin E4Texas project awarded ten students Certificates of Completion on May 11, 2019. The E4Texas program immerses students with and without disabilities into college life at the University of Texas Austin campus. Students come to the university campus from around the state. E4 Texas is project of the Texas Center for Disability Studies. Students who take this program are focused on certification as personal care attendants while building independent living, self-advocacy, and social skills.
4/29/2019
Ilaria Navarra Completes her Fulbright Scholarship at the Georgetown University UCEDD
Ilaria Navarra, the first recipient of the Fulbright-NIAF-Georgetown University Research Lectureship in Education, completed her 6 month scholarship and is returning to the University of Macerata in Macerata Italy to complete her doctoral studies. Navarra is a primary school teacher in Episcopia, Basilicata, Italy. She was awarded the Fulbright grant to study the implementation of the Montessori method in US based preschools and primary grade classrooms.
4/22/2019
Break for High School Students with Disabilities (MS UCEDD)
For one group of Hattiesburg-area high school students, Spring Break 2019 is not about the sand, the sun or the water - it's about preparing for the future. During the week of March 11-15, the Transition of Teens to Adult Life (ToTAL) Program at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) hosted an Alternative Spring Break on the Hattiesburg campus focused on preparing high school students with disabilities for employment.
4/5/2019
IHD's Disability Studies Minor: Changing Perceptions, Encouraging Advocacy (AZ UCEDD)
The Institute for Human Development's Disability Studies Minor challenges its students to rethink their attitudes toward people with disabilities. Its goal is to encourage students to realize that people with disabilities represent a minority group, one that has historically been marginalized, but that is, in fact, the single largest minority group in our increasingly diverse society.
3/4/2019
Advocacy is Making a Difference (SC UCEDD)
By Kelly Walling, BSW Senior
Think back to your education... did you ever have a class where you were able to learn about disabilities??? If so, that is incredible! If not, then you're like me. Throughout my undergraduate and graduate career, I have not had access to a disability-focused course. We had classes that included disabilities in their course and teaching, but never one that focused on what having a disability looks like, means, and what we, as social workers, can do to best serve clients.
1/4/2019
New Encyclopedia Announcement: "Disability in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Concepts, Policies, and Controversies." (IL UCEDD/LEND)
This encyclopedia is edited by Illinois UCEDD faculty Tamar Heller, Sarah Parker Harris, Carol Gill, and Rob Gould. This exciting new publication includes entries by faculty and trainees throughout the network as well as other noted scholars in disabilities across many disciplines. The forward to the encyclopedia was written by AUCD Executive Director Andy Imparato. Once primarily thought of as a medical issue, disability is now more widely recognized as a critical issue of identity, personhood, and social justice.