Education
Access to education creates access to opportunities. Here, you’ll find a range of perspectives on what educational access means for the disability community: recognizing that everyone has different learning styles, school experiences, and educational goals.
Here’s Why Student Loan Debt is a Disability Rights Issue
When Cara Liebowitz graduated from the City University of New York School of Professional Studies in 2016 with her MA in Disability Studies, she was already on Supplemental Security Income (SSI) so she found it surprisingly easy to have her …
VIDEO: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Disasters do occur all the time, from hurricanes, earthquakes, shootings, and many more. Whenever there is a disaster, we hardly hear disabled individuals mentioned as to whether they were injured or safely escaped.…
Identifying as “Disabled” Brings Me Peace in a World Hostile to My Existence
Before I entered college, I never thought about disability. Or at least, I never thought about it with that exact word. Mental illness. Mentally ill. Disorder. Burden. These were all words I used to describe myself before “disabled” and “disability” …
A Guide to Determining Accessibility at Vocational and Technical High Schools
On my first day at Bristol County Agricultural High School, I found out that I’d learn to take apart an engine and put it back together, climb trees, wade through the pond, ride horses, work with cows and livestock, arrange …
Here’s How You Can Show Solidarity to Disabled Classmates
Back-to-school season can be a stressful time for members of the disability community, especially those who are entering new schools and new phases of their educations. Inaccessibility is a constant problem on campuses, and that doesn’t just include physical access…
Empower Your Students Through Disability-Conscious Teaching
Historically, disabled people have been subjected to isolated, segregated education. And there’s still a notion that a disabled person in the classroom is a shocking and novel thing, and disabled people don’t belong in school. In a classroom space where…
Sex Education is for Everyone. Even Disabled Kids.
We live in a society that desexualizes disabled bodies. This allows the topics of sex and sexuality to be left out of the educations of many young disabled people. As disabled students head back into the classroom this year, this…
Students With Mental Health Disabilities Are Not a Burden
Halfway through my time in college, I found myself wondering whether I should bother returning to therapy, either on or off-campus. Despite having studied psychology for a few years and having previously seen a therapist on campus, I felt apprehensive …