Disability Studies & Accessibility: Outside Resources

General guidelines to assist faculty in supporting students with disabilities.

This guide was created to assist faculty members in understanding the needs of students with disabilities in higher education and to provide information about accommodations that ensure equal access to curricular and co-curricular activities.

List of links to news and information on disability-related practices, procedures and resources.

The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is a scholarly organization dedicated to promoting disability studies.

Compilation of disability statistics published by federal agencies.

Information package containing references for books, articles, periodicals, etc., plus teaching resources for Disability Studies.

The Center on Disability Studies (CDS), College of Education, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa designs and offers many training programs; provides community-based demonstrations to build local capacity to improve services to individuals with disabilities; and conducts numerous statewide, national, and international dissemination activities.

The Disability History Museum aims to provide all site visitors, people with and without disabilities, researchers, teachers and students, with a wide array of tools to help deepen their understanding of human variation and difference, and to expand appreciation of how vital to our common life the experiences of people with disabilities have always been.

More than 100 oral histories with leaders and shapers of the disability rights and independent living movement from the 1960s onward and an extensive archive of personal papers of activists and records of key organizations. From the Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement.