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At any given time, approximately 25% of Americans are disabled — a status that can range from needing a wheelchair (either permanently or temporarily) to having a learning disability that needs accommodations at school or work. But how are colleges preparing students to teach, manage, care for, and interact with disabled…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s proposed session for 2022 SXSW EDU, The Tyranny of Low Expectations: Ableism in EDU, needs your vote! Make sure disability, equity, and access are part of the trending topics in education in 2022 by taking a minute to go to the session’s page, enter your email address,…

Learning disabilities are the most prevalent disability in children who receive special education services.Yet for deaf students, many challenges and misunderstandings persist in accurate identification of their learning disabilities and design of learning environments for them.That is the topic Dr. Stephanie W. Cawthon will address in her September 24 keynote…

As of June 1, I have the honor of serving as chair for the Human Development, Culture and Learning Sciences (HDCLS) area within the Department of Education Psychology in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. It’s a department that is ranked #4 among public colleges and…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon will present a live workshop “How to Empower Your Deaf Students to Succeed at School (and Life)” on Thursday, August 19, as part of the Best Practice in Mainstream Education of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Conference hosted by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf…

First convened in 1878, the International Congress of the Education of the Deaf (ICED) is one of the premier international forums for sharing evidence-based practices, research, and ideas. Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is invited to be a plenary speaker at the 23rd ICED, to be held July 5-8, 2021, in Brisbane,…

“No one wants to be around just because they are being legally complied to,” Dr. Stephanie Cawthon told Insider Higher Education in an interview about the barriers that disabled faculty face in academia. In the article, “A Difficult Pathway,” reporter Lilah Burke talked to Dr. Cawthon and other faculty members…

Dr. Stephanie Cawthon is one of only three featured speakers at the Future of Tech Commission’s Texas Town Hall on Thursday, May 26, at 9:30 a.m.One of the first of a limited number of town halls throughout the nation, this event will help develop an actionable bipartisan technology policy agenda…

The Review of Research in Education (RRE), published annually by the American Education Research Association, is one of the top ten journals in the field. To publish in RRE is both humbling and empowering — a rare opportunity to bring to light issues that are core to my passion as…

This is a guest blog post written by Ana Guadalupe Vielma, one of Dr. Stephanie Cawthon’s mentees. Recently featured among St. Edward’s University’s i200 impactful alumni, she is a second-year doctoral student in the Human Development, Culture, and Learning Sciences program in the Department of Educational Psychology at The University…