Editing Disability studies (section)

==History==
Universities have long studied disabilities from a clinical perspective,<ref name=NYT /> and discussions around the depathologization of disability began following the [[disability rights movement]], which arose in the 1950s. In 1981, the [[United Nations]]' [[International Year of Disabled Persons]] brought disability into the public sphere as a human rights issue. Five years later, the Social Science Association's Section for the Study of Chronic Illness, Impairment, and Disability was renamed the [[Society for Disability Studies]],<ref name=SDSMissionandHistory/> and its journal ''[[Disability Studies Quarterly]]'' was the first journal in disability studies. The first US disabilities studies program emerged in 1994 at [[Syracuse University]].<ref name=NYT/> However, courses and programs were very few. In the 1997 first edition of the ''Disability Studies Reader'', Lennard J. Davis wrote that "it had been virtually impossible to have someone teaching about disability within the humanities".<ref name=Davis/> In the second edition, written ten years later, he writes that "all that has changed", but "just because disability studies is on the map, does not mean that is easy to find".<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Davis|editor1-first=Lennard J.|title=The disability studies reader|date=2006|publisher=Routledge |edition=2nd |isbn=978-0-203-95711-0 |oclc=666883107}}</ref>

Still the field continued to grow throughout the 2000s. In 2009 ''Disability Studies Quarterly'' published ''A Multinational Review of English-language Disability Studies Degrees and Courses''. They found that from 2003 to 2008 the number of disability studies stand-alone studies programs in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada grew from 56 to 108 and the number of degree-granting programs grew from 212 to 420. A total of 17 degrees in disability studies were offered, with 11 programs in the US, 2 in the UK, 3 in Canada, and 1 in Australia.<ref name=DSQ:ProgramReview>{{cite journal|title=A Multinational Review Of English-Language Disability Studies Degrees And Courses|journal=Disability Studies Quarterly|date=2009|volume=29|issue=3|url=http://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/41|access-date=26 March 2015|doi=10.18061/dsq.v29i3.940 | last1 = Cushing | first1 = Pamela | last2 = Smith | first2 = Tyler|doi-access=|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The 2014 article "Disability Studies: A New Normal" in ''[[The New York Times]]'' suggests that the expansion in disability studies programs is related to the 1990 passage of the [[Americans with Disabilities Act]] (ADA). Those raised after the passage of the ADA have entered colleges and the workforce, as Disability Studies has grown. In a 2014 article, ''Disability Studies Quarterly'' published an analysis on the relationships between student run groups and disability studies, from 2008 to 2012. Their article analyzes groups at four different universities and describes how professors have incorporated student activism into their curriculum and research.<ref name=StudentGroups>{{cite journal|last1=Stout|first1=Allegra|last2=Schwartz|first2=Ariel|title= 'It'll Grow Organically and Naturally': The Reciprocal Relationship between Student Groups and Disability Studies on College Campuses|journal=Disability Studies Quarterly|date=2014|volume=34|issue=2|doi=10.18061/dsq.v34i2.4253|doi-access=free}}</ref>