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-17 posts tagged "disability"
Catherine Owers | Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the second day in a series on disability at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s stories examine the services available to students at the University and the College. Any student can register with Disability Services to request accommodations, according to coordinator Scott Howland. “It starts by providing documentation for the disability, so
Haleigh Ehmsen | Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Editor’s note: This is the second day in a series on disability at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s stories examine the services available to students at the University and the College. Saint Mary’s created the Disabilities Resource Office (DRO) in 2004 to provide students with access to accommodations granted under the Americans with Disabilities Act,
Catherine Owers and Haleigh Ehmsen | Monday, April 18, 2016
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series on disability at Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s. Today’s story examines the language surrounding disability. The 650 students registered with the Sara Bea Center for Students with Disabilities have the same abilities, interests, motivations and desires as the rest of the student body, Scott Howland, coordinator
Macaila DeMario | Monday, April 13, 2015
Saint Mary’s Justice Education Department hosted Maureen Parsons and Tiffany Amburg from Hannah & Friends, a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and compassion for the special needs community, to speak about the organization Friday. Parsons, director of operations at Hannah & Friends, spoke about the financial difficulties that families with children who have special needs are
Madison Jaros | Wednesday, February 4, 2015
The motto of Special Olympics Notre Dame reads, “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,” a phrase club vice president and senior Andrew Hosbein said describes the club’s mission well. “You hear the Vince Lombardi quote, ‘Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,’ and from that you take sports to
Kathryn Marshall | Sunday, November 2, 2014
Saint Mary’s associate professor of communicative disorders Susan Latham spoke about “Parenting with Disability” Friday afternoon as part of the Justice Education Department’s weekly Justice Friday series. Latham said parents with disability have the right to raise their own children without interference. “When we look at the evolution of parenting in the disability community, we know that
Abigail Piper | Monday, September 22, 2014
Notre Dame provides a wide variety of service opportunities in which students can engage, yet one club in particular focuses on a highly-original opportunity. Super Sibs is a service club on campus that allows students who have siblings with disabilities to mentor children in the community who also have siblings with disabilities. Adam Kourajian, a Notre Dame