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Writing About Disability: Tips from the UMBC Style Guide
Words Matter: Affirming Identity and Co-creating Belonging
For Disability Awareness Month - take a look at UMBC's Style Guide for tips on how to write effectively about people with disabilities with the section on Inclusive and Affirming Language. With...
October 20, 2022 · 2:21 PM
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October is Disability Awareness Month
Disability: Essential to the Equity and Inclusion Equation
National Disability Awareness Month is  held in October to raise awareness about issues that arise within the lived experience of people with disabilities, and celebrates the many and varied...
September 30, 2022 · 6:48 PM
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Faculty: Accessibility Inclusion Fellowship Opportunity
Apply to leverage accessibility, monetary award opportunity
FACULTY - Apply for an Accessibility Inclusion Fellowship Opportunity  Submit application by November 15, 2021.  The National Federation of the Blind via a Non-Visual Accessibility Initiate...
October 19, 2021 · 3:23 PM
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Free Webinar: The True Impact of Digital Accessibility 10/20
Discover how inclusion helps others and you (now or later)
Many of us have heard about digital accessibility but what would it really be like to walk in someone else's shoes — to need alt text, captions, audio descriptions, and more. Find out!...
October 13, 2021 · 12:34 PM
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The Americans with Disabilities Act at 31
Accessibility and Disability Inclusion Matter
The anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities reminds us, as a campus, to  celebrate all persons with visible and invisible disabilities, and remain committed to their equitable inclusion....
August 3, 2021 · 9:08 AM
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Managing Vaccines, Change and Mental Health
Mental Health in the Community + UMBC Resources
With vaccines now widely available to new and UMBC community members,  and Fall 2021 planning and recent announcements  - these positive changes inspire questions and concerns. Many of the...
April 22, 2021 · 3:24 PM
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European Parastronaut Program Includes Disabled People
With space travel, we are all disabled
As part of its latest astronaut selection, the European Space Agency is seeking to recruit one or more 'Parastronauts' to examine and demonstrate the feasibility of selecting astronauts who would...
March 12, 2021 · 6:07 PM
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Free Virtual Conference: UMD Disability Summit, April 12-14
Access and Crisis: Disability and the Collapse of Everything
Please join us in attending the virtual University of Maryland Disability Summit  that helps us carry disability inclusion forward while we navigate new realms of accessibility and many disability...
March 10, 2021 · 4:07 PM
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Critical Access Studies: Humanities Methods & Approaches
Aimi Hamraie on April 8 via the Dresher Center Forum REPOST
 Critical Access Studies: Methods and Approaches from the Humanities Aimi Hamraie, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, & Society and American Studies, and Director of the Critical...
February 1, 2021 · 2:29 PM
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UMBC Facilities Accessibility Project Updates and Discussion
Spring 2021 Presentation February 10 at noon
Facilities Management and the Office of Accessibility and Disability Services are hosting a review of recent, current and potential construction projects that enhance accessibility, improve the...
January 22, 2021 · 3:24 PM
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