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“ADA Live!” Show: Episode 28: Post-Secondary Education and Students with Disabilities

January 6, 2016

The Southeast ADA Center Will Broadcast the “ADA Live!” Show: Episode 28: Post-Secondary Education and Students with Disabilities

Wednesday – January 6, 2016
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM (Eastern)

Back by popular demand, the Southeast ADA Center is rebroadcasting the “ADA Live!” – Post-Secondary Education and Students with Disabilities. This episode will address students with disabilities, including those who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, don’t usually know about their opportunities in higher education, what accommodations are available, and how to request them. Continue Reading

Students, People with Different Abilities Collaborate on Adaptive Design Solutions

Eyeglasses can be colorful, elegant and make a fashion statement. They become an extension of a person and reflect the wearer’s personality. Viewed over time, they blend in.

What if someone’s wheelchair or accessible device was thought of in the same way?

Professor Don Carr thinks we can get there with a wide array of products and it’s time for a new way of thinking about adaptive design. Continue Reading

Meera Adya, Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse featured in New York Times for research on employment discrimination

November 2, 2015

BBI Senior Director of Research and Evaluation Meera Adya with Rutgers Professors Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse featured in New York Times for their research on employment discrimination

Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against Disabled

Source: New York Times

Employers appear to discriminate against well-qualified job candidates who have a disability, researchers at Rutgers and Syracuse universities have concluded. Continue Reading

BBI and Onondaga Community College partners with University of Wisconsin-Madison on $20 million grant that powers Internet access effort

October 22, 2015

Great news on another successful grant outcome, on which Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University and Onondaga Community College (OCC) are fortunate to be partners.

This significant project further builds on the successful partnership led by OCC and with BBI funding through the U.S. Department of Labor on Pathways to Careers and Employment for Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities. Continue Reading

BBI Receives $2.5 Million from NIDILRR for increasing Supported Decision Making in Community Living

October 19, 2015

The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University (BBI) has received a $2.5 Million grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration on Community Living, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) for a new five-year project on “Understanding and Increasing Supported Decision-Making’s Positive Impact on Community Living and Participation Outcomes.” The funding (grant #90DP0076-01-00) is the only award of its kind in the country. Continue Reading

YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids Aims to Make the Mary Free Bed YMCA the First Building in the World to have Universal Design Certification

Dedicated to the Community Mary Free Bed YMCA Dedication

September 15, 2015

New Facility to Set Standard in Accessible Health & Wellness Options for People of All Abilities

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – September 15, 2015 –The YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids has partnered with the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University and the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access at the University of Buffalo (IDeA Center), leading organizations in advancing the civic, economic, and social participation of people with disabilities. The goal of the partnership is to work towards receiving the first Global Universal Design Certification from the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC) for the Mary Free Bed YMCA when the facility opens in December 2015. Continue Reading