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Disability. Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. [1] This premise ...
David Bolt (disability studies) David Bolt is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies and the Director of the Centre for Culture & Disability Studies [1] at Liverpool Hope University, where he is also Professor of Disability Studies and Interdisciplinarity. [2]
1889 – Ugly laws were enacted in Denver, Colorado and Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889. 1894 – An ugly law was enacted in Columbus, Ohio in 1894. 1891 – An ugly law was enacted for the state of Pennsylvania in 1891. This law contained language applying to cognitive disability as well as physical disability.
Lennard J. Davis in 2009. Lennard J. Davis, an American specialist in disability studies, is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Arts and Sciences, and also Professor of Disability and Human Development in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Professor of Medical Education in the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Learning Disabilities. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Learning Disability Practice.
Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability.It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw.
From August 2008 until the time of his death, Bell was an ARRT Fellow at the Center for Human Policy, Law and Disability Studies at Syracuse University.At Towson University in Maryland from 2006 to 2008, Bell was a lecturer and adviser in the Department of English; an affiliate faculty member in cultural studies, LGBT studies, and the Honors College; and the adviser of the Queer Student Union.
Disability. The Society for Disability Studies is an international academic network of disability studies practitioners. [1] It often abbreviates its name to SDS, though that abbreviation continues to be used by academics and political scientists to describe the Students for a Democratic Society organization in the United States.