Society for Disability Studies

Welcome!

The Society for Disability Studies is a nonprofit scientific and educational organization established to promote interdisciplinary research on humanistic and social scientific aspects of disability and chronic illness. Its membership includes social scientists, scholars in the humanities and disability rights advocates concerned with the problems of disabled people in society. The purpose of the society is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds and substantive concerns. The Society is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

Browse through these pages for news and information about SDS, and find out who we are and what we do.

David Mitchell
President

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SDS Contact Information
Office mailing address:
Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., Executive Officer, Society for Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608-6904
U.S.A.

Office E-Mail: Link at bottom of page. Please read this note before you contact the SDS office or "Webspinner".
Phone: 312-996-4664 (V/TTY)
fax: 312-413-2918

Please write Carol Gill's name on any postal or fax correspondence, so that this correspondence reaches the SDS office reliably.

Please read this before you e-mail the SDS Office:
   Given the range of legal, medical, employment, and other kinds of questions potentially raised by people with disabilities seeking answers (e.g., "Where is a good support group/lawyer/doctor in my area for __?" "Is __ legal?" "How can I work from home?"), these questions are usually better directed to resources specifically focused on the disability-related issue in question than to SDS.
   If you have a question or issue but don't know where to direct it, please check your local telephone listings, or search the web for the appropriate resources. The best use of our e-mail contacts is to send questions or comments concerning SDS itself, disability studies as a field, or this web site.

E-mail Carol Gill with general questions about the organization. Thanks to Debra Sheets for her assistance in developing several pages in this site.

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20 October 1997.

This site was last revised on 10 March 2000.