The growing demand to design buildings and environments that are usable by everyone, regardless of ability, requires a design approach that extends the limits of current design practice. That approach ...

The same design principles that brought Braille panels to public elevators and curb cuts to city sidewalks should be imported to the classroom and used to transform lessons and textbooks, says a ...

Sweetwater Spectrum sits on almost three acres, four blocks west of downtown Sonoma, in California’s wine country. It is a zen-like campus, with an organic garden, pool and wide pathways connecting a ...

Universal Design of Research (UDR) draws on concepts from three disciplines. Click on each of the three disciplines listed below to learn about the concepts drawn from that discipline used in UDR.

It’s no secret that hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, medical office buildings and other healthcare centers often function as safe havens for their communities. Over the last few years, ...

The collaboration is rooted in universal design, creating products usable by everyone, regardless of age, mobility, or lifestyle. HEWI's decades-long expertise in barrier-free architecture meets ...

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way to structure your course so it is fully accessible to as many students as possible without a need for modifications or accommodations. It draws from ...

Based on the education statistics, I should never have made it this far. The fact that I have multiple graduate degrees makes me an anomaly. Not because I was raised in poverty (which I was), but ...

In a nutshell, Universal Design for Learning, or UDL, is a framework that urges educators, policymakers, and all education stakeholders to think about teaching and learning in a way that gives all ...