Please note: the Reuther Library Reading Room will be closed this August 10, 2017, from 12-4. Researchers will be able to access materials between 10-12.

Please contact Reference Archivist Kristen Chinery (kristen.chinery@wayne.edu) to make research arrangements.

For more than 87 years, Wayne State University has granted admission and provided services to the physically disabled. The 1960s saw the beginning of the Disability Rights Movement in the United States and with the steadily increasing number of disabled students enrolled at WSU, the need arose for the establishment of an office dedicated to physically disabled students. Thus, in 1961, the University Office of Counseling for the Handicapped was established in the Division of Student Personnel, under the direction of Dr. William Knapp.  read more »