Equity & Inclusive Communities

KPU seeks to enhance access for all students. To learn more about KPU's efforts to enhance accessibility, please read KPU Accessibility Plan.

Disability, Accessibility and Neurodiversity Services: For Students

Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) offers a range of accessibility services including a student focused Accessibility Services which will liaise with faculty and staff to ensure accessibility solutions. KPU also offers an Employment and Community Studies Program which focuses on career preparation and an Including All Citizens Pathway which is a student-centered Universal Design for Learning program that enhances access and inclusion. To learn more about the two KPU initiatives check out the Exercising Self Determination in our Schools 2min - Inclusion BC Youtube video.

KPU has accessible washrooms located at

• Surrey: Arbutus 1814, Main 1895 and Cedar 1256 and 1258
• Surrey: Fir 1st floor, adult-sixed adjustable change table with overhead electric lift. 
• Richmond: Room 1436 (near Boardroom 1420)
• Langley: Room 1802 (near Student Enrollment Services)
• Tech: Room 1606 (near the café)
• Civic Plaza: All bathrooms are individual – 1-2 accessible on each floor

KPU Library offers a third part authorization option, where students with accessibility concerns can complete the Third Party Release for Library Information and Transactions form and email it to libcirc@kpu.ca. This will allow the authorized third party to pick up books on your behalf.

KPU strives to keep our digital landscape accessible. To learn more, please read the KPU Web Accessibility statement.

Disability, Accessibility and Neurodiversity: Web Resources

• Accessible Canada Act
• 6 General Types of Disabilities by Changing Paces
• Disability Models
• Critical Disability Theory
• KPU Accessibility Plan
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Accessible BC Act
• Accessible Admissions : Fostering Equitable, Accessible, and Inclusive Admissions Through Disability Justice
• United Nations Conventions on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) 
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD Plain Language)

Disability, Accessibility and Neurodiveristy: Organizations

• Inclusion BC
• Inclusion Canada
• Peoples First of Canada
• Indigenous Disability Canada
• DisAbled Women's Newtwork Canada (DAWN)
• National Association for Disabled Students (NEADS)
• Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS) 
• About Face
• BC ED Access
• Black Deaf Canada

Disability, Accessibility and Neurodiversity: Films and DVDs

• Accessibility and Inclusion - 3min - World Economic Form
• The Accessible Canada Act and Government Procurement - 6min - Public Services and Procurement Canada
• Introduction to Web Accessibility and W3C Standards - 4min - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Changing the Way We Talk About Disability - 15min - TEDx with Amy Oulton
• Our Fight for Disability Rights - and Why We're Not Done Yet - 21min - TEDx with Judith Heumann
• Indigeneity and Disability in our Schools - 5min - One Island Media Youtube
• This is the Story of a Civil Rights Movement - 4min - Inclusion BC Youtube
• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution -  1hr 45min - Netflix Youtube
• The Sterilization of Leilani Muir - 47min - NFB
• I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much - 10min - TEDX Youtube

Disability, Accessibility and Neurodiversity Studies: Journals

• Disability and Society
• Disability Studies Quarterly
• Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability
• Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
• International Journal of Disability, Development, and Education
• Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies
• Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive technology