Our community encompasses a broad range of individuals and conditions. DisCo aims to embrace and acknowledge these differences to accommodate and support those with disabilities among Stanford's broader communities.
- Updated: 11.13.2024
Disability Student Groups
Stanford Disability Alliance is a student organization centered around community and advocacy for disabled and allied students. This quarter, SDA hosts general meetings on Mondays, 5:30 p.m. in the DisCo Space. Publicity for SDA events can be found on the SDA Mailing List and Instagram at @stanforddisabilityalliance. For community group chat information, ask at general meetings or contact alexvera@stanford.edu.
NSSP is a student organization centered around community and advocacy for neurodiverse and allied students. NSSP intends to have meetings beginning Winter Quarter in the DisCo Space. Publicity for NSSP events can be found on the NSSP Mailing List or Instagram at @stanfordnssp.
Previously known as SMAC, SMADIE is a group seated in the School of Medicine focused on advocacy for resources, education, training, policies, accessibility, and services at Stanford Medicine and beyond. The group is open to the broader Stanford Medicine community, including Stanford Health Care, University HealthCare Alliance (UHA), and Stanford Children’s Health.
SMADIE holds virtual meetings on the second Wednesday of each month, and hosts an annual Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine in late-April.
- Their event calendar and other information can be found at the SMADIE site.
DAMNS is a student community and advocacy group in the Stanford School of Law. They host workshops, dinners, and speaker events, as well as quarterly General Meetings and other community events which can be found on the DAMNS Site Calendar.
Previously PRISM, the Mental Health Reading Group is a reading group focused on gathering students from the humanities, science, medicine, law, and policy to explore questions and controversies relating to mental health and illness.
- Times, locations, and additional information can be found on the DAMNS Site Calendar.
- Readings will be posted on the PRISM mailing list. To be added, email Carly Frieders at carlyf28@stanford.edu.
ASL Club is a student group aimed at creating space for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing students to socialize, and practice & expand their signing skills. They host sign-learning workshops and social signing events with advisor Cathy Haas, Lecturer for Stanford’s Sign Language courses. Times, locations, and additional information can be found on their Instagram at @stanford_asl_club.
Disabled Spaces On Campus
DisCo is a physical space (located at 563 Salvatierra Walk) dedicated to providing support and opportunities for Stanford's disability community, and provides a space for the Stanford communities to come together through educational opportunities, resources, and events.
The Well House is a dorm located in Robert Moore North interested in creating a substance-free undergraduate residential community and experience based on the theme of wellness. This provides an environment for students to learn and practice holistic approaches to physical, mental, and emotional health: The Well House or “The Well.” The values of the substance-free community are connection, equity, belonging, authenticity, and vulnerability and humility. Students living in the Well House commit to living substance free and actively promote an environment based upon the respect and care for others in the community.
Cardinal Recovery is a physical space located in Rogers House (581 Capistrano Way) and provides peer-led support for substance use and behavioral addictions. Because recovery is a subjective and varied experience, Cardinal Recovery embraces SAMSHA's working definition of recovery as "a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. In addition to facilitating a variety of weekly recovery meetings and mentorship, Stanford affiliates can find inclusion and belonging at substance-free events hosted by Cardinal Recovery.
