disabilities

Scenes from the Enabling Engineering event at the Snell Engineering Center on April 19, 2018. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Student engineers adapt bikes, cars, guitars and more for clients with disabilities

Inspired by everything from a love of The Beatles to a need for speed, Northeastern's student organization Enabling Engineering builds devices for individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities. The group's annual showcase highlighted 19 projects students have developed over the past year.

by Adam Glanzman April 20, 2018

Andy Rosenthal, DMSB’07, is co-founder of The Terebinth Group.

He’s serving the housing needs of a vulnerable community

What will happen when baby boomers become too old to properly care for their adult children with disabilities and who live with them? Andy Rosenthal's company, The Terebinth Group, is providing safe, high-quality, affordable housing in Indiana to this burgeoning, vulnerable community.

by Joan Lynch March 7, 2018

Northeastern appoints Susan Parish dean of Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Parish comes to Northeastern from Brandeis University, where she is the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Disability Policy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and inaugural director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy.

by Greg St. Martin January 20, 2017

04/04/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Members of the Best Buddies student group pose for a portrait in the Curry Student Center on April 4, 2016. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Student group brings joy to people with disabilities

Northeastern’s student chapter of Best Buddies International counts more than 40 young humanitarians who volunteer to enhance the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Alex Linden, BHS’17, and Melissa Jacques, S’17, are two of those humanitarians. On Friday, they’ll help host Northeastern’s inaugural “Special Spirit” basketball game.

by Jason Kornwitz April 6, 2016

03/01/16 - BOSTON, MA. - Students work on their Enabling Engineering capstone projects in the ECE Capstone Lab in Hayden Hall at Northeastern University on March 1, 2016. The products/prototypes are going to Ecuador over Spring Break. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Students spend spring break in Ecuador assisting children with disabilities

A group of Northeastern engineering and physical therapy students have spent months developing devices designed to help children with disabilities at an orphanage in Ecuador. On Sunday, 15 students and their professor traveled to the South American country to spend their spring break working with these children.

by Greg St. Martin March 9, 2016

Conference focuses on disability hiring

Northeastern on Tuesday hosted an employer-partner roundtable breakfast to discuss challenges and best practices for hiring recent college graduates with disabilities.

by Joe O'Connell May 14, 2014

Humanitarian calling

Sarah Honigfeld, a deaf human services major, has been honored for her humanitarian work with disabled children and their families.

by Matt Collette January 25, 2013

With this robot’s help, the eyes have it

In senior capstone project, engineering students apply eye-tracking technology to design a robot that can help the disabled with household tasks

by Matt Collette June 7, 2011