
A Unique History
Institute on Disabilities has more than 40 years of contributions including:
Disability is a cultural experience. Disability Studies uses an interdisciplinary perspective to explore the disability experience. Disability Studies questions concepts such as "normalcy" and analyzes "differences" through origins, institutions, policies, philosophies, culture, and traditions. The concept of disability has legal, medical, political, social, and temporal variations and implications. Similar to African American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, and Native American Studies, Disability Studies qua academic study developed through the emergence of a Social Justice and Civil Rights Movement – the Disability Rights Movement.
In exploration of the breadth of intersectional concepts, Disability Studies at Temple University is an Interdisciplinary collaboration: a cluster of curricula including accredited programs, mini-series lectures, performances, symposia and more. Disability Studies at Temple is inclusive programming with great diversity in both scholars and students. A significant portion of our programming is freely available to the community at large.
Institute on Disabilities has more than 40 years of contributions including:
Learn about Temple's Disability Studies Graduate Certificate.
The Institute on Disabilities has a cluster of Disability-Studies related curricula including:
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Disability Studies has over 50 affiliated faculty and graduate students:
Disability Access at Temple:
Temple's Urban Archives offers the following Disability Rights special collections...
Latest calendar of Temple University disability-related events including lectures, symposia, art / performances / movie screenings, etc.
For more information about Disability Studies at Temple University:
Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service