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BBI Receives $6.2 Million Award for Southeast ADA Center to Advance Understanding of Disability Rights, Responsibilities
For the third time in 15 years, the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million grant to advance and support understanding of rights and responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) through its Southeast ADA…
Teacher fights for right to see former special needs student.
Jonathan Martinis, senior director for law and policy in the Burton Blatt Institute, was interviewed by KCTV-5 (Kansas City) for the story “Teacher fights for right to see former special needs student.” Martinis, who has over 20 years of experience…
Creative Writing Workshop for Teens With Disabilities: A New National Model
William Del Rosario is a high school senior from Orange, California, who has helped shape the success of a model program pioneered by the Burton Blatt Institute, housed within the College of Law, at Syracuse University, in collaboration with the…
Britney Spears’ Conservatorship Is A ‘Cultural Failure’
Jonathan Martinis, senior director for law and policy at the Burton Blatt Institute, was interviewed by PBS, The Washington Post, Boston Public Radio, and Time Magazine article “How Britney Spears’ Case Could Change the Future of Conservatorship.” Martinis, an expert…
The Trials and Tribulations of a Thirteen Year Conservatorship
Jonathan Martinis, senior director for law and policy at the Burton Blatt Institute was interviewed for The New Yorker article “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare.” Martinis provides context for the lack of rights given to those in conservatorships, saying, “The rights…
BBI Chairman Peter Blanck Guest Edits Journal of Disability Policy Studies
Supported decision-making (SDM) is a paradigm in which people use friends, family and professionals to help them address the situations and choices they encounter in everyday life. To examine emergent issues in SDM in research, law, and policy, the Journal…
Spring 2021 Issue of ‘Wordgathering,’ a Digital Open Access Journal of Work from Disabled Writers and Artists, Now Live
“Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature” Spring 2021 issue is now live via “Wordgathering’s” website. The 57th issue of this quarterly digital, open access journal is made possible by generous support from Syracuse University’s Office of Interdisciplinary Programs…
Stephen Kuusisto Receives 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has announced that Stephen Kuusisto, University Professor in the School of Education and director of interdisciplinary programs and outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute in the College of Law, has been awarded a 2021 Guggenheim…
Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series to Address ‘Spiritual Care During Turbulent Times’
The University’s ongoing Interfaith Dialogue Dinner Series, “Common and Diverse Ground: Raising Consciousnesses by Acknowledging the ‘Hidden’ Things that Divide Us,” is offering a virtual conversation roundtable for the Spring 2021 semester. Participants will discuss the topic, “Presence and Pandemics:…
Burton Blatt Institute Hosts Poetry Reading
The Office of Interdisciplinary Programs and Outreach at the Burton Blatt Institute welcomes critically acclaimed poet, torrin a. greathouse, for a virtual poetry reading on Thursday, March 25, from 7 to 8 p.m. ET. greathouse, transgender and cripple-punk, is a…