Disability

In Disability and Digital Media: Accessibility, Representation and Inclusion, we will explore the relationship between digital technologies and disability in the Internet age.

Learn, from personal stories, the daily life and challenges faced by those with intellectual disabilities. This health course focuses on the stories of people with intellectual disabilities around the world, as well as their families and supporters. You will learn about the challenges and aid received in healthcare for [...]

Discover ways to make education more inclusive, especially in areas where resources are limited. Learn practical strategies for making education inclusive. Millions of children around the world are excluded from access to education because of a disability - robbing them of their potential and diminishing our society. On this [...]

Inclusion is more than just a buzzword – it's a business strategy. Learn how to attract and support a diverse workforce. How do you foster a company culture that supports a diverse workforce, including employees with disabilities? Co-developed with Harvard Extension School, this course gives hiring managers and recruiters [...]

Explore how to conduct and interpret findings from global disability research. Understand why and how to do research in the field of global disability. In this course you will learn from researchers, persons with disabilities and policy makers as we look to enhance our understanding of the importance of [...]

Find out about the new role of personal assistants in disability support, and how to improve working relationships in the area. Improve working relationships between disabled people and personal assistants. Disabled people can now receive funding from their local authority to employ a personal assistant. While this gives them [...]

Leaving no one behind: disability, health and wellbeing in global development. Around 15% of the world’s population, or 1 billion people, live with some form of disability, with numbers continuing to rise over the coming decades.

Despite the fact that the Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that, in principle, children should not be detained and deprivation of liberty should be a measure of last resort, millions of children in the world are locked away. To address this problem, the United Nations appointed [...]

See how rehabilitation counsellors help people with disadvantage or disability realise their vocational potential. Discover how rehabilitation counsellors help individuals, employers and society. Unemployment - whether due to social disadvantage, chronic disease, injury or disability - is affecting an increasing number of individuals and communities across the [...]