Disabled students

Get to know Georgetown University’s inaugural associate director of the Disability Cultural Initiative and read about her work as an advocate, author, and scholar.

A growing number of college students are registering with disability services for psychological conditions, prompting new efforts to address students’ short- and long-term needs.

A donation from Georgetown alumna Tiffany Yu has laid the groundwork for a new endowment to support disability-related initiatives on campus.

The shift to an online learning environment last spring required an increase in virtual communication through websites, email, and social media—and intensified the university’s focus on promoting accessible materials.

Some students with disabilities have found the transition to virtual learning environments during COVID-19 to be freeing and flexible, leading advocates to wonder which accommodations might endure well beyond the…

Georgetown senior Anna Landre, who studies some of the most pressing problems facing disabled communities, has earned a prestigious 2021 Marshall Scholarship. Georgetown University had the greatest number of Marshall…

Conversations about college students with disabilities often focus on individual academic accommodations or biomedical conditions—and miss opportunities to celebrate and support their contributions to campus diversity.

Anna Landre plans to use the scholarship to study policies that could open up new opportunities for people with disabilities.

In the absence of clear federal guidelines for how to make online education accessible for all, disability rights advocates are calling on educators to be mindful of student needs, follow…

Around 60 U.S. colleges and universities now have programs aimed at boosting attainment among students with autism spectrum disorder.