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Disability, Access, & Teaching: A One-Day Symposium

Date: Apr 10, 2019 at 9:00am to 5:00pm
RSVP REQUIRED: https://www.american.edu/cas/crgc/disability/ With this one-day Disability, Access, and Teaching symposium, we aim to bring together our campus and local communities to better understand and foster accessible, inclusive learning environments. While a number of faculty members at American University focus their research on disability, and student and faculty resource centers engage with questions of disability, it is rare for students, staff, faculty, and administrators to come together for a sustained conversation about accessible pedagogy and disability theory. We aim to facilitate precisely that conversation. This symposium will offer plenary sessions, workshops, and presentation slots, as well as other interactive formats in which we can together discuss how we want to realize truly accessible classrooms and foster disability studies as a field at American University. Primary goals include showcasing the disability studies work being done at American University, fostering a campus conversation about disability and access, and providing networking opportunities for all AU campus members who work on or with questions of disability and access.