Disability Knowledge Community
Disability Knowledge Community
The Disability Knowledge Community provides an opportunity to share a wide range of issues, best practices and experiences in the interest of serving students and employees with disabilities. We appreciate that attention to intersectionality can enhance a collaborative approach to the work we do in higher education. We look forward to partnering with other Knowledge Communities and all who are interested in the interests of those with disabilities.
About
Mission:
The Disability Knowledge Community is a network of student affairs and other higher ed professionals, including faculty, who advocate and support access, equity and inclusion for those with disabilities throughout all aspects of higher education.
Vision:
The Disability Knowledge Community envisions a universally accessible collegiate experience for all individuals.
Commitment:
Through our collective expertise and interest on disability and accessibility, we seek to:
- Share resources and provide opportunities that promote inclusion and access for students and employees with disabilities.
- Advocate for equitable practices and policies that foster participation for individuals with disabilities.
- Create co-curricular and educational programs, events, and services on topics related to disability identity, accessibility, equity, and inclusion.
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Get Involved
Volunteers are critical to the continued success of the Disability Knowledge Community. We are constantly on the lookout for new and exciting content from members to create resources and engage our members in educaiton and outreach opportunties.
Regional Leadership Opportunities: We are seeking Regional reps to lead DKC initiatives and share resources about disability inclusion in higher education. Region Reps make the collaboration in NASPA work effectively. To apply, visit Volunteer Central section of the NASPA website: https://www.naspa.org/volunteer. The following Regional Rep positions are currently vacant:
- Region 3
- Region 4-West
- Region 5
Leadership Team
Knowledge Community leaders are NASPA volunteers who have generously devoted their time to their Knowledge Community. Chairs are elected by the Knowledge Community members while Regional representatives are selected from within the Region. Additional roles are selected by the Knowledge Community.
Resources
Books
- Crucial Collaborations: A Practical Framework to Ensure Access, Equity, and Inclusion for Students With Disabilities
- Access, Equity, and Inclusion for Students With Disabilities: A Collaborative Approach to Optimize Success
- Beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act: Inclusive policy and practice for higher education.
- Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach
- Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)
- Accommodations in Higher Education under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- The Guide to assisting students with disabilities: Equal Access in Health Science and Professional Education
- Students with Asperger Syndrome, a guide for college personnel
- Parties, Dorms, and Social Norms
- The way They Learn
- Medical Students with Disabilities: Resources to Enhance Accessibility (edited by John A. Hosterman, Donte P. Shannon, and Henry M. Sondheimer)
- Disability as Diversity in Higher Education
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
- Feminist, queer, Crip
- Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability (Cultural Front)
- Universal Design in higher Education: From Principles to Practice
- Informational briefs on academics, careers, technology, and more
Presentations
Media
- It’s all part of the job
- I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much
- Depression, the secret we share
- I got 99 problems… palsy is just one
Websites
- National Center for College Students with Disabilities
- Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education
- Auxiliary Aids and Services for Postsecondary Students with Disabilities
- What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
- Universal Design for Learning Guidelines
- Universal Design for Learning at a glance
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) on campus
- A-Z to deaf blindness
- University of Washington DO-IT Program
- The National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE)
- Disability history museum
- Gallaudet University
- A financial guide: Helping your child with a disability become a financially secure adult