Disability Awareness Symposium

About the event

Diversity includes all people. We all come from different cultures, backgrounds, and abilities.

The Disability Awareness Symposium will bring issues of disability to the diversity table.

Through presentations, “deep dives,” and panel discussions, students, staff, and faculty will have the opportunity to identify the barriers to equal access and opportunity, discuss what causes these barriers, and what is necessary to remove them.  Barriers to access and opportunity are common and we hope to bring attention to many.

The focus will be on achieving access through universal design—website accessibility, classroom technology, curriculum development and the built environment.  In addition, the symposium will bring focus to the attitudinal barriers that face many people with disabilities today, especially those with learning differences and mental health conditions, and how to address them.  A discussion of universal design principles will begin to address the question “what should equity and inclusion look like in our society?”

To learn more and to register, please visit accesscenter.wsu.edu.