Conference Panelists: Disabled Students Would Benefit From Universal Instruction Design: WASHINGTON – In the diversity movement, nearly every imaginable identity marker is part of the conversation—race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation—but disability remains a burden many in higher education fail to acknowledge, a panel of higher education disability advocates said Tuesday.
At the Educational Policy Institute’s annual National Capitol Summit, disability advocates expressed dismay that so little progress has been made to include students with disabilities—particularly those with cognitive impairments—in the national conversation about access and equality. The Virginia Beach, Va.-based Educational Policy Institute is a nonprofit research organization dedicated to issues related to the expansion of quality educational opportunities.
