Your leadership is needed by children and youth with developmental disabilities and their families. The New Hampshire-Maine Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities Program (NH-ME LEND) is a collaboration among the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, the University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability, and the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability […]

The Maine Policy Project on Restraint and Seclusion was one of thirty-eight examples of state-level leadership in disability policy celebrated during the recent Association of University Centers on Disabilities AUCD for All Gala. Source: AUCD4all – Maine Policy Project on Restraint and Seclusion When her son experienced a challenging transition to public kindergarten from a special purpose private pre-school and was restrained […]

Source: Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research Derek Volk, the author of “Chasing the Rabbit: A Dad’s Life Raising a Son on the Spectrum,” will be on the University of Maine campus offering a free presentation open to the UMaine and local communities. On Friday, April 27th at 6:30 p.m., Mr. Volk will be sharing his story of the challenges […]

Source:  https://www.acl.gov/node/1278/ The President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCPID) has released its 2017 report, America’s Direct Support Workforce Crisis: Effects on People with Intellectual Disabilities, Families, Communities and the U.S. Economy. Direct support professionals (DSPs) provide services and supports that empower people with intellectual disabilities to live in the community. In the report, PCPID notes that DSPs […]

Looking for a Summer 2018 class online? Two Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (DIS) courses are being offered: DIS 300 and DIS 500. DIS 300 – Disability: Interaction of Human Diversity and Global Environments Designed to introduce the student to disability as an element of human diversity that has a significant reciprocal relationship with the environment. We […]

The AFARI Mobility Device, co-invented by University of Maine and CCIDS professors Stephen Gilson and Elizabeth DePoy, is part of the current Access+Ability exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. The exhibition, which runs through September 3, 2018, features over 70 innovative designs and “explores how users and designers are expanding and adapting accessible products and […]

Faculty and staff from the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies recently presented their research and work-in-progress at the 2017 Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) Conference in Washington, DC. AUCD, founded in 1971, is a network of interdisciplinary centers advancing policy and practice for and with individuals with intellectual, […]

For many people with disabilities and their families, faith communities can be a powerful source of natural community support and connection, as well as a doorway to other important outcomes in the areas of relationships, work, community living, recreation, and service. The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) is one […]

As part of a Leadership Intensive on the history of disability, t​wo members of the​ University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies’ Community​ ​Advisory Committee (CAC) recently shared their lived history of disability with U​Maine trainees and faculty in the New Hampshire-Maine ​Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-ME ​LEND​)​ Program​.​ In lieu of the weekly […]

Source: U.S Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy News Release WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy announced today that “Inclusion Drives Innovation” will be the theme of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)​ in October 2017. “Americans of all abilities must have access to good, safe jobs,” […]