According to data from the second report "University and Disability" [1], 17.3% of the Spanish university students have some kind of psychic disability. This percentage decreases higher is the education, being the 6.2 % ...

Comprehension of the disability as a social phenomenon has allowed thinking the diversity of a homogenizing model, which negates the difference as a constitutive feature of human being. This way of conceiving the disability ...

Faced with the educational policies that advocate inclusive education that respects and values all students, regardless of their individual characteristics, we developed a study to see how this scenario is seen by a professor ...

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in ...

After the implementation of inclusion policies in Brazil, friendship relations between the actors of the school so called disabled students and the rest of students have become increasingly frequent. Often these relationships ...

In this article, we present data concerning the attitudes towards disability of students in higher education (HE) at a Spanish university. This research is part of a wider project designed to understand these attitudes at ...

The enrollment of students with disabilities in Higher Education is becoming more and more present in the Brazilian reality, however, it is difficult to draw a more realistic picture about the number of these students and ...

This article describes the key elements to develop an inclusive pedagogy in the university through the testimonies of Social Sciences and Law faculty members. A total of 25 faculty members from seven different Spanish ...

Spanish universities must guarantee optimum accessibility to facilitate the teaching-learning process of students with disabilities. The objective of this study was to investigate how Spanish students with disabilities ...