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The WSU Access Center is hosting a Disability Awareness Symposium from March 29 through April 2. The event is sponsored by the Access Center, the Disabled Students and Allies Club and University Recreation. It will cover topics on mental and physical health, with the main theme being “Fitness for All: Inclusive Fitness and Sport,” according to the website.  The symposium will provide workshops to address mindfulness and nutrition. There will also be an offering of adaptive physical events including yoga, zumba, weightlifting and rock climbing, according to the website. Each day will have...

  Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of ECU News Services. The author of this post is Erin Ward. A new ECU scholarship supports students with disabilities. | Photo: Cliff Hollis     Senior theatre major and aspiring actor Haley Sanders loves creating magic for audiences under the dazzling lights of the stage. A double concentration in professional acting and theatre for youth allows her to gain experience in all aspects of theater in both college and community settings.     But off the stage, natural light and fluorescent light — like the ones in many classrooms — ca...

Supreme Court has directed the Centre to frame proper guidelines to regulate and facilitate grant of a facility of a scribe to persons with disability in writing exams.

Express News Service BENGALURU: The future of 43 speech and hearing impaired students of the Technical Training Centre for Deaf (TTCD), hangs in balance as they are yet to receive their hall tickets for the second-year exam, scheduled from Friday. The students told TNIE that they have been out of the education system since March 2020, and reopening of colleges has not extended to them in actuality.There is a lot stacked against the students, who are trying to make sense of why they have been abandoned by the system. They spoke to TNIE through a sign interpreter, and said they have been unabl...

Introducing 2020 AMI Robert Pearson Scholarship recipient Nik Provenzano There was a bit of irony when Nik Provenzano got the call congratulating him as the 2020 English recipient of the AMI Robert Pearson Memorial Scholarship: he was in the middle of writing mid-terms. Following a review of over 150 applicants, Nik was awarded $5,000 on behalf of the program. Established in 2012, the AMI Robert Pearson Memorial Scholarship is open to Canadian students enrolled in a diploma or degree program at a Canadian post-secondary school. It is awarded annually to one English- and one French-spe...