The UVM Center on Disability & Community Inclusion (CDCI)

We offer a graduate certificate in disability studies, taught by and with people with disabilities.

We’re home to the innovative and nationally recognized Think College VT program, that provides students with disabilities supported access to an undergraduate education at the University of Vermont.

We partner with people with disabilities in creating courses with other departments, such as this Global Disabilities course in the Special Education department.

We work to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategies to promote inclusion, diversity, and self-determination.

We conduct research to improve disability services and advocacy policies. In 2022, our research into the suspension and expulsion of children with disabilities in Vermont (video) was instrumental in creating new legislation around early childhood education.

We partner with researchers in our college, university, and other organizations in prioritizing disability advocacy in research.

We share our own and other people’s research in multiple accessible formats.

We’re home to 31 active projects serving different areas of disability access and inclusion, such as the Vermont Continence Project, Project SCOPE VT, Vermont Early Mobility, and the UVM Autism Collaborative.

We share resources related to digital and physical accessibility, such as the CDCI Accessible Events Guide (.pdf).

We support other disability advocacy groups around Vermont with funding and promotional work.

We work as part of the Vermont Community of Practice in examining how Vermont’s disability advocacy can and must be responsive to issues of diversity, including racism, homophobia, sexism, classism, and language bias.

We tell stories of the lives of Vermonters with disabilities, and help get them to a wider audience.
We share news and events of interest to the Vermont disability community.
We connect the Vermont disability community to the University of Vermont.