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Go USM Home/News/2021/Advocacy Ambassador Program Helps Young Adults with Disabilities Find Their Voices Advocacy Ambassador Program Helps Young Adults with Disabilities Find Their Voices Mon, 03/08/2021 - 16:48pm | By: Van Arnold While on the path to adulthood, young people benefit from learning to advocate for themselves as they find their voices. For young people with disabilities, learning to advocate for themselves is crucial i...

The artist, who has spina bifida, also recently wrote the memoir "Golem Girl" and her subjects range from frank self-portraits to people with or without disabilities.

Disability Studies Scholars Critique the “Autism Industrial Complex” Scholars argue that a business model has developed that exploits autism to sell coercive interventions. 2929 Disability Studies scholars Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno argue that popular metaphors that portray autism as an enemy, alien, epidemic contagion, or otherwise dangerous serve to create a market for what they term the “Autism Industrial Complex.” Broderick and Roscigno see these notions of ...

Learn about the importance of accessible product design at TechCrunch Sessions: Justice When you are able to navigate a world that is designed for you, it’s easy to avoid thinking about how the world is designed for you. But it can be different if you are disabled. At TechCrunch Sessions: Justice on March 3, we will examine the importance of ensuring accessible product design from the beginning. We’ll ask how the social and medical models of disability influence technological evolution. Int...

02/01/21 A new resource from Georgia Techs Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI), developed with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and CDC Foundation, provides COVID-19 information in accessible formats for people with disabilities. Materials on the site include CDC guidance in the form of braille-ready files, documents compatible with screen readers, American Sign Language resources, simplified text for people with low literacy skills, and more. In additio...

Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Techs Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI), with funding from the CDC Foundation and technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have launched a microsite with COVID-19 information in alternative formats for people with disabilities. The microsite showcases accessible materials that adapt existing CDC guidance into American Sign Language, braille and simplified ...

Bill to set up disability studies, rehab sciences university likely this session Updated: Updated: The draft Bill states that the university would have eight departments. Share Article The draft Bill states that the university would have eight departments. A Bill for the creation of a university of disability studies and rehabilitation sciences, which was first proposed in the 2015-2016 Budget, is likely to be introduced in the Budget session of Parliament set to begin on Friday, said Social J...

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