The Respiratory System educational unit was researched and compiled by University of Maine undergraduate, Nancy D. Bergerson, under the supervision of Stephen F. Gilson, Ph.D., Coordinator and Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Professor of Social Work; and Elizabeth DePoy, Ph.D., Professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies and Professor of Social Work; in partial fulfillment of her Disability Studies Internship during the Spring 2010 semester