CIDR - Disability as Diversity

Including Disability as Diversity in your teaching can involve any number of factors, such as making classes accessible to students with disabilities, accommodating your own disability in a class, and incorporating disability studies perspectives into your course content.

A number of units on campus exist to support you in addressing these different goals, and the growing field of Disability Studies - emerging out of the disability rights movement - is also a valuable source of information. The following are just an introduction to the many resources available.

Many thanks to Becky Reed Rosenberg, Director of the UW Bothell Center for Teaching and Learning, and Amy Vidali, Assistant Professor at University of Colorado at Denver, for compiling these resources.

CIDR Resources

	CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin Including Disability as Diversity in Teaching CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin, 8(2)

	CIDR Web Guide Inclusive Teaching CIDR has collected resources, examples, insights from faculty, and stories from students in order to help members of the UW teaching community accomplish their goal of teaching more inclusively. To view these materials and related strategies for teaching, see: Perspectives on What Excludes Students Strategies for Inclusive Teaching Inclusive Teaching Resources

	Consult with CIDR CIDR consultants are available to meet with you to discuss diversity and inclusive teaching practices in the context of the classes that you teach. To schedule a consultation, call 206-543-6588, or contact us by email to arrange an appointment.

UW Resources

UW Centers

DO-IT: Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology

See also the DO-IT Faculty Room
"The Faculty Room is a space for faculty and administrators at postsecondary institutions to learn about how to create classroom environments and academic activities that maximize the learning of all students, including those with disabilities."

Other DO-IT Resources for instructors include:

Access Guide for Persons with Disabilities

AccessIT
National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education

Disability Services Office
Resources for faculty and staff with disabilities

Disability Resources for Students (UW Seattle)

Disabled Student Services (UW Bothell)

Disability Support Services (UW Tacoma)

Disability Studies at the University of Washington

Disability Studies Minor
The proposed minor and links to valuable resources on Disability and Disability Studies

Center for Human Development and Disability

Center for Technology and Disability Studies

Center for Disability Policy and Research