Emeritus University Professor Richard Roessler, one of the preeminent scholars in the field of rehabilitation counseling, died Sept. 21. A celebration of his life will be at 2 p.m. Friday at St. Paul s Episcopal Church.
Through acceptance, celebration and inclusion of individuals with disabilities, the University of Kentucky believes that our campus community becomes richer. In honoring that belief, this year the Office for Institutional Diversity has created the Employee Affinity Group on Disability. To learn more about this new affinity group, how they got started in this work and disability awareness on campus, UKNow sat down with the group leads.
Disability Pride Month is celebrated in July to commemorate the ADA’s passing into law and to honor the disability rights activists who fought for what the rest of the nation had gained decades prior.
Here in Kentucky and across the nation, there is an increased need for a qualified workforce to better serve the growing population of children with developmental disabilities including autism spectrum disorder.
A new University of Kentucky Human Development Institute (HDI) program is helping to meet that need by equipping health and education professionals with the spe