The Society for Disability Studies (SDS) is an international non-profit organization that promotes the exploration of disability through research, artistic production, and teaching. Disability Studies encourages perspectives that place disability in social, cultural, and political contexts. Through our work we seek to augment understanding of disability in all cultures and historical periods, to promote greater awareness of the experiences of disabled people, and to contribute to social change.
I am asking any readers of this blog to please share with me places and programs where disability studies is considered from a Christian perspective. I honestly believe that the Christian perspective has much to offer form a positive perspective on the understanding of disability. I am aware of websites like the following which list disability study programs across the country. However, I am particularly interested in programs from a Christian perspective.
http://isc.temple.edu/neighbor/ds/dsprograms.htm
Finally, it is sometimes a criticism of disability studies that it doesn't address or include people with cognitive disabilities/mental retardation. So I would also be interested in disability studies from that perspective.
Thanks for your help
McNair
Disability studies does include the study of developmental/cognitive/intellectual disability--moreso in some programs than others, but it's there. The collection _Mental Retardation in America: A Historical Reader_ (editors Steven Noll and James Trent; NYU Press 2004) has a good sampling of the historical work being done on the topic. (Full disclosure, I'm one of the contributors.)
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