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
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CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin
Including Disability as Diversity in Teaching
CIDR Teaching and Learning Bulletin, 8(2)
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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:
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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. |
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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)
Biology and Society
(BIS 393 Special Topics, Joanne Woiak)
Disability and Human Rights (pdf)
(BIS 325, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren)
Disability and Society: Introduction to Disability Studies
(LSJ / CHID 332, Lang / Brown)
Redesigning Humanity: Science Fiction and the Future of the Body
(BIS 393 Special Topics, Joanne Woiak)
Sexual Science: Historical and Critical Perspectives
(BIS 482 Problems in Interdisciplinary Science, Joanne Woiak)
Social Work Practice Across Disability (pdf)
(Social Work 594, Susan Neely-Barnes)
If you would like to recommend other courses to add to this list, please send a message to info@cidr.washington.edu
For related courses in a number of UW departments, see Credit Requirements of the Disability Studies Minor
