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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Disability Culture"”.
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Illini service dogs- changing perceptions
… of the change of perceptions related to the disability culture among undergraduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who are members of the Illini Service Dog Program. The purpose of the study was to determine if participation in the Illini Service Dog Program …
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Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
… draws on performance studies, critical disability studies, and critical infrastructure studies scholarship to investigate the infrastructural politics of contemporary disability performance. Throughout, I show how disability performance enacts modes of infrastructural inversion that …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… relationship between transgenerational trauma, disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth functions …
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Reciprocal Relationships and Creative Expression in Literacy Learning: Ameliorating Disability Circumstances and Empowering Individuals
… of art, who are untrained, and marginalized by disability, are known as outsider or visionary artists. With them in mind I sought to better understand the relationship between art-making and meaning-making. Students with disability attributes in my classroom were motivated by arts-based …
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An Ethnographic Look at Inclusive Dance and Dancers with Intellectual Disabilities
… in the US rarely have dancers with intellectual disability (ID). Dancers with ID face stigma due to their intellectual capacity. However, dancers with ID contribute in many ways to disability culture and disability aesthetics in their dance companies. This dissertation is a critical performance …
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Need To Be Adored
… contemporary feminist performance art and disability cultural theory. My thesis is a project. I make things: puppets, videos and performances, which included the exhibition, Need to be Adored (2014), staged in the digital media lab of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Cell Phone Interface Design Preferences from the Perspective of Nationality and Disability
… nations, including users with no apparent disability and users with visual disabilities. A study was conducted to identify possible relationships between national culture, disability culture and design preferences of cell phone interfaces. The theoretical framework used to guide this study …
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Social Experiences of Young Adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Toward an Understanding of Communication
In this study, I used to use a variety of accommodative techniques to conduct oral interviews with young adult participants who presented with unique social language needs. Their needs highlighted and allowed critique of the research methods that I have learned, bringing up important ethical and …