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This book is another guide for health science programs on how to make themselves accessible for disabled students. Informed by the ADA, OCR determinations and legal cases, this book is another example of guidelines which can easily be converted into…

This book aims to take a new and innovative view on how disability and architecture might be connected. Rather than putting disability at the end of the design process, centred mainly on compliance, it sees disability – and ability – as…

This book is written for stakeholders such as deans, program directors, faculty, student affairs and disability resource professionals housed in medical programs so that they can engage effectively and efficiently with incoming medical students with…

Image description: The cover of a book, mostly blue with intersecting vertical and horizontal yellow blocks and an uneven circular blob in rainbow colors that resembles refracted light in a soap bubble. The white text reads “Disability as Diversity”…

“All too often,” wrote disabled architect Ronald Mace, “designers don’t take the needs of disabled and elderly people into account.” Building Access investigates twentieth-century strategies for designing the world with disability in mind. Commonly…

Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you’ve benefited from accessible design—design…

Website for the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University.

Docs with Disabilities, along creating a network to increase the visibility of disabled doctors and building a community of disabled doctors where they can connect and support one another, it has also created a podcast hosted by Drs Lisa Meeks and…

Image Description: an online recruitment "poster" in the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) colors--yellow and navy blue. The top line enjoins readers to "Join the Campain #DocsWithDisabilities." The poster includes a shortened link and a the…

Med Twitter, named for the hashtag that indexes it (#MedTwitter), is well-known and much used amongst healthcare professionals. A loose online community of healthcare professionals and students, #MedTwitter hosts diverse content: educational medical…