Erika Katzman

Jun 26, 2024 | mdpi.com | Tal Jarus |Lindsay Stephens |Tracey Edelist |Erika Katzman

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Mar 6, 2024 | asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Tracey Edelist |Erika Katzman |Tal Jarus |Shahbano Zaman

1 INTRODUCTION Despite legislation worldwide mandating accommodation policies in postsecondary education, students with disabilities continue to experience barriers accessing accommodations.1-7 Recent health and human services (HHS) education (e.g. medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, psychology and social work) research has found disabling attitudes and discourses, stigma, and discriminatory, inaccessible program design to be barriers to the full participation of disabled students.1-3, 8-11...

Nov 17, 2023 | academicmatters.ca | Erika Katzman

What does it mean to truly access an academic space? According to disabled activists and disability studies scholars, universities have a long way to go in making their physical, digital, and cultural spaces accessible to students, faculty, and staff—and they have recommendations for how to do so. Disabled people may be welcome in academic spaces, but we are seldom actively welcomed.

Nov 17, 2023 | academicmatters.ca | Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite |Andrea Davis |Sara Z. MacDonald |Sara Macdonald |Erika Katzman

How can a university become a more equitable place to learn, study, and work? This question has been the driving force behind […] READ MORE