This article explores how the University of Ottawa enacted interest convergence (Bell 1980;
Dolmage 2020) during March 2020 when it changed its accessibility procedure because of …

Universal Design for Learning is a pedagogical approach that aims 'to improve and optimize
teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans …

Over the last few decades, educational research grounded in critical disability studies has
developed a sophisticated and comprehensive critique of the ways in which norms of ability …

Barriers to access in higher education are most often understood in the context of disability,
and the accommodations disabled students are legally guaranteed. This chapter highlights …

Here Kathleen A. King Thorius and Federico R. Waitoller respond to Harvard Educational
Review's Spring 2017 forum on their 2016 article “Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining …

The academic opportunity gap between black and Latino/a students and their white
counterparts is well documented (Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2012, NCES …

In this article, Federico R. Waitoller and Kathleen A. King Thorius extend recent discussions
on culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) in order to explicitly account for student dis/ability …

Human rights legislation has supported the provision of disability support services for twenty
years within the public post-secondary system in British Columbia. However, most …

In 1975, Congress enacted a law eventually known as the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA), which ensures that children with disabilities receive a free …

High school graduates with disabilities—many now accustomed to assistive technology and
learning accommodations—are moving on to higher education, comprising approximately …