Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Looking for a Summer 2016 class online? Three Interdisciplinary Disability Studies (DIS) courses are being offered: DIS 300 – Disability: Interaction of Human Diversity and Global Environments; DIS 500 – Contemporary Disability Theory; and DIS 550 – Research Seminar in Disability Studies. For more information, please contact Stephen Gilson, Ph.D., Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary […]

Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month (JDAIM) is a unified effort among Jewish organizations worldwide to raise awareness and foster inclusion of people with disabilities and those who love them. Established in 2009 by the Jewish Special Education International Consortium, JDAIM is observed each February. #‎2016JDAIM @inclusioninnova FMI visit the Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion […]

The John T. Gorman Foundation has published a new report, A Portrait of Wellbeing: The Status of Seniors in Maine (PDF), complied by researchers at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy. The report provides an overview of the most recent data about economic, housing, and social indicators that are important to […]

The Southern Kennebec Child Development Corporation – Child Care Options is sponsoring a one-day Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference with Pete Wright, Esq., at the Augusta Civic Center on April 28, 2016. The program focuses on four areas: S​pecial education law, rights and responsibilities ​T​ests and measurements to measure progress & regression SMART […]

Students in this course will examine and analyze contexts in which people with disabilities live, work, and participate. The concepts of accommodation (including assistive technology and adaptation), universal design/access and disjuncture will be used as analytic lenses through which to critically examine service and community responses to diversity and difference and to advance collaborative leadership […]

Lenard Kaye, Lucille Zeph and Alan Cobo-Lewis have published a commentary, “The Aging and Developmental Disabilities Networks: Can the Silos Be Dismantled?” in the current special issue of the Maine Policy Review on aging. The authors discuss the service networks for aging and developmental and physical disabilities, which have traditionally functioned in distinctly separate camps. They present […]

Faculty, staff and a NH LEND trainee from the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies recently presented their research and work-in-progress at the 2015 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 […]

The first in a new series of physician’s fact sheets published by the Florida Center for Inclusive Communities notes that “patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities are recognized as an underserved population that experience significant disparities in healthcare.” The fact sheet, Improving Communication with Patients who have Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (PDF), is written primarily […]

The Maine Developmental Services Oversight & Advisory Board (MDSOAB) is requesting public feedback to gain input on services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities​ (I/DD)​​; family members, siblings, guardians, correspondents, friends ​ and ​advocates​; ​and providers​ for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities,​ are encouraged to​ ​provide feedback […]

The US Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) has published Inclusive Internship Programs: A How-To Guide for Employers (PDF) to assist employers seeking to diversify their workforce with the skills and talents of people with disabilities, particularly young adults with disabilities. The guide addresses the benefits of internships to both individuals and […]