STEP program provides coaching, direction to students with disabilities This summer, UD’s week-long transition program gave 11 students the opportunity to build independent living skills, gain exposure to the job world and work with undergraduate mentors.
Delaware schools: College-bound despite disability A CDS summer program brings transition-age students to campus to build study and independent living skills, shadow professionals working in their field of interest and work with UD Disability Studies minors.
Disabilities are no hurdle to exercise Eileen Sparling, the project coordinator of CDS’s Healthy Delawareans with Disabilities, discusses the benefits of physical activity, and ways to make it more accessible, for people with disabilities.
Health information center offers care notebook workshop CDS will be hosting two workshops on creating a care notebook, a record-keeping tool for families of children with disabilities.
2010 Swank Scholarship recipient named A UD sophomore who interned with CDS and is pursuing the Disability Studies minor was awarded an $18,000 scholarship that will support her studies of human disabilities and service delivery.