Disability Awareness Week Oct. 27-Nov. 1
Develop a greater understanding of disability, and learn about UCLA’s offerings for disabled faculty, staff and students during Disability Awareness Week Oct. 27-Nov. 1. Activities include sports programs, faculty lectures and discussions, a film screening, and an art exhibit by students in the UCLA Extension Pathway Program.
Throughout the week, UCLA Recreation invites participants to try wheelchair basketball, adaptive hand cycling and tandem cycling on bicycles especially designed for those with mobility impairments, wheelchair basketball, and adaptive sailing at Marina Aquatic Center.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m., attend a free film screening of “Murder Ball,” winner of a Sundance Film Festival award. The film is about a group of disabled athletes who completed in the 2004 Athen Games as the U.S.A. men’s paralympic quad rugby team.
The English Department and the Disability Studies Minor will present a lecture on Tuesday at noon, Student Activities Center, Conference Rooms 1 and 2, and neuroscience researchers will discuss progress in treaging childhood motor disorders such as cerebral palsy on Thursday, Oct. 30 in the Neuroscience Research Building, Room 116. Sign language and signing to music will be the subject of a talk on Wednesday, Oct. 29, noon in the Wooden Center Main Conference Room.
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complete schedule. And see this
UCLA Impact report on understanding disabilities. Disability Awareness Week is sponsored by the University Committee on Disability, the Office for Faculty Diversity, UCLA Recreation, UCLA Extension Pathway Program, the Disabled Student Union, the On‐Campus Housing Council and additional campus organizations.
