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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Critical disability"”.
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A Critical Disability Pedagogy: Legitimizing Dyslexia
… on dyslexia from the areas of special education, disability studies in education, critical communication pedagogy, and crip theory, I identify that dyslexia tends to be object of study, and very few people who identify as dyslexic are writing about dyslexia. The dyslexic scholar is rendered …
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Institutional Counter-surveillance using a Critical Disability Studies Lens
… policy and procedure documents related to Disability at 3 U.S. institutions of higher education over a 25-year time frame. Policy and procedure documents are the foundation that govern how institutions "handle" Disability, outlining expectations and guidelines for providing services and …
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EXPERIENCES OF ENTREPRENEURS WITH DISABILITIES: A CRITICAL DISABILITY THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… available to them as they relate to both disability and entrepreneurship. The study suggests that people with disabilities need customized entrepreneurship training that focuses on developing and expanding their human capital. Furthermore, the study suggests that disability service …
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Challenging Deficit-Based Discourse in Higher Education Through a Social Connection Model of Responsibility: A Critical Disability Studies Perspective
This thesis engages the theoretical lenses of Critical Disability Studies, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Iris Marion Young’s Social Connection Model of Responsibility to discuss disablement and inclusivity in the Higher Education sector. This challenges Paulo Freire’s suggestion that only the …
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Reimagining Learning Disabilities: Embracing Difference as an Empowering Resource Amidst Psycho-Emotional Disablism
… can reframe their LD as a resource. Employing a Critical Disability Studies (CDS) and a social-relational framework, three interconnected studies were conducted. The first study analyzed the public narratives of three prominent LD advocates—Richard Branson, Henry Winkler, and Barbara …
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Terrence McNally’s Universalizing Model: The Role of Disability in <em>Andre’s Mother; Lips Together, Teeth Apart</em>; and <em>Love! Valour! Compassion!</em>
… those same topics and others, but with a critical disability lens. Inspired by Robert McRuer’s analytical partnership of queer, AIDS, and disabilities studies, this work assesses McNally’s use of various types of languages and finds the figures who are characteristically presented as the …
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Psychoanalysis and disability : an exploration of the utility of psychoanalytic methods and analyses in the interrogation of social responses to impairment
The utility of a critical psychoanalytic approach in interrogating societal responses to disability is discussed, making use of experiential accounts of visually impaired university students gathersd via group analytic methods. The re-integration of psychoanalytic thinking and methods into …
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Playing Against Ableism: Disabled Player and Developer Approaches to Videogame Accessibility
… to address the intersection of videogames and disability, studies often investigate videogames’ rehabilitative potential, upholding a medicalization of disability that sees disability as deficiency. Other studies that address videogame accessibility seek to understand barriers disabled players …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… and screen media. Drawing together insights from critical disability studies, postcolonial studies, Foucauldian scholarship and Science and Technology Studies, it attends to the variety of ways in which contemporary texts from different contexts have engaged with and reimagined historical modes of …
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Disabling Psychology: A Crip Analysis of Deaf and Blind Psychotherapists in Practice
… seeking to understand the perceived impact of disability on the therapeutic relationship. There is an abundance of research on nondisabled therapists treating disabled clients but only a handful of studies qualitatively considering the disabled therapist’s understanding of practicing in a …
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The “Other” athletes: Representations of disability in Canadian print media during the London 2012 Paralympic Games
… highly mediated society, media culture plays a critical role in socialization and offers a conduit for the naturalization of ideas. By this reasoning, stories told by the media about Paralympic athletes have the potential to influence our understanding of disability. This study reveals the …
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Inclusive Education in Saskatchewan's K-12 Schools: Perspectives of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
… K-12 education system. Grounded in critical disability theory and employing a narrative inquiry approach, this research centres the voices of people with lived experience to examine how inclusion is perceived and experienced. Ten adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities …
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(Re)presentations of Disability: Images of Persons with Down Syndrome
… by mass media for decades. The result of disability misrepresentation is the perpetuation of negative disability stereotypes and models of disability. Disability representation has rarely been informed by authentic first-hand knowledge about what disability is and who disabled people are. …
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A Wisconsin charter school's enrollment and service of students with disabilities
… This qualitative single-case study, grounded in Critical Disability Theory and the transformative paradigm, explores inclusive education within a Wisconsin charter school. It examines the strategies and insights that foster meaningful inclusion, moving beyond surface-level metrics to highlight …
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Olympic effort: rhetorics of disability, sport, and resistance in the 2012 London Olympic narratives
… space to challenge normative constructions. This critical cultural rhetorical dissertation examines how bodies of particular athletes within the 2012 Summer Olympics can act as spaces of resistance to hegemonic norms. By analyzing the narratives surrounding Keelin Godsey and Caster Semenya during …
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The Experiences of Individuals with Psychological Disabilities in Attending Counselling: A Phenomenological Investigation
The topic of disability within counselling is one that has received relatively little attention, despite counselling’s focus on multicultural competencies. Some scholars argue that mental illness can be conceptualized as a disability, and that viewing it as such can provide important insight and …
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The Rhetoric of Disability: an Analysis of the Language of University Disability Service Centers
… university websites and the policies provided by Disability Services provide material for a rhetorical analysis addressing the marginalization of students with disabilities on college campuses. In this thesis, I discuss the degree to which university distributed texts marginalize students with …
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Reimagining Ability, Reimagining America: Teaching Disability in United States History Classes
… historical and educational literature about disability in the United States and provides a curriculum guide for teaching Human Rights Education (HRE) and disability studies (DS) at the high school level in California. This project traces the historical development of deficit attitudes toward …
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Being Ourselves: Narratives of Disabled College Students' Interpersonal Experiences with Campus Community Members
… they took from their interpersonal interactions. Critical disability studies theory and Disability Justice Principles provided a conceptual framework for this study's design. Using narrative inquiry methodology, this study explored the following research questions: (1) How do disabled college …
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"Absent Students: A Critical disabilities studies approach to accessibility services "
… Ontario. Grounded theory methodology with a critical disability studies framework was used. Each interview was analyzed using an open coding, axial coding, and selective coding progression. The analyses revealed the following prominent themes: 1) participants felt respected as a person but …
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