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Kanisha L. Ffriend ’16 tells the story of a young girl of color who is hard of hearing in “I,Too, Am a Dancer!” The girl is the main character—a different approach than from what Ffriend had seen in other books about people with disabilities.

Members of the ���ϲ����� and Central New York communities are invited to participate in ���ϲ�����’s fourth annual Accessible Athletics Expo, “OrangeAbility.” This student-led initiative is sponsored by the Disability Student Union, the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee, the Disability…

Public and academic librarians across the United States now have a comprehensive, easily accessible, hands-on informational resource to help them increase their competence and confidence to provide high-quality services to people with disabilities. Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Libraries Everywhere)…

���ϲ����� Press title “Disability Rhetoric” by Jay Timothy Dolmage won a 2015 PROSE Award in the Language and Linguistics category. Dolmage is associate professor of English at the University of Waterloo and founding editor of the Canadian Journal of…

The “Cripping” the Comic Con conference and comics convention is now accepting proposals for the 2015 symposium. The deadline for submitting proposals is Jan. 26. This year’s theme is “Game Over …?,” which will explore the various ways in which…

���ϲ�����, Onondaga Community College (OCC), the ���ϲ����� City School District, the public workforce system and regional economic development and disability service agents are partnering with employers in high-growth industries to prepare youths and young adults with disabilities for skilled…

A major renovation of Huntington Beard Crouse Hall planned for summer 2015 will significantly improve the building’s accessibility, upgrade Kittredge Auditorium and bring a number of other improvements to the building, which dates from 1961.

Janet Lord, senior vice president for human rights and inclusive development at the Burton Blatt Institute and senior researcher for the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 12:30 p.m. in 341 Eggers Hall. Her…

A unique opportunity for prospective students (and their parents) to learn more about the fact that “disabled” does not mean “unable” when it comes to attending college, the Disabled and Proud conference motto was “Dare to Dream.” Come to find…

Judith E. Heumann, the special advisor for international disability rights at the U.S. Department of State, will visit ���ϲ����� on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Heumann will participate in a discussion titled “Inclusion of People with Disabilities Around the Globe Through…