Through its annual conference and its journal, the Society for Disability Studies has made great strides in moveing disability studies as a discipline. None of this progress would have been possible had it not for the dedicated founders of this organization who had the vision to lead the field to the ultimate goal.
Listed below are the names of these great founders:
- Daryl Evans, Ph.D.
- Steve Hey, Ph.D. Department of Sociology Willamette University Salem, OR 97301
- Gary Kiger, Ph.D.
- John Seidel, Ph.D. P.O. Box 2070 Amherst, MA 01004
- Irving Kenneth Zola, Ph.D. (1935-1994)