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Focuses on disability research in South Africa. Assumptions on the research on disability; Nature and focus of disability research in South Africa; Issues raised by disability researchers; Principles of an empowering approach to disability research; Recommendations to the approach.

The article provides a list of completed theses in the field of disability studies. It also provides the names of colleagues who are new entrants to the discipline. It presents the theses on the disability rights movement in Taiwan by Heng-hao Chang, analysis of the discourse and discursive devices used to represent learning disability in the stories told in the classroom to students by learning disability nurse teachers by Su Shaw, and disability and identity in South Africa from a human rights perspective by Martha M. Laclave.