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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Disability Identity"”.
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Narrating Political Disability Identity
<p>This dissertation documented the political disability identities of nine disabled adults. It also explored how these disabled adults enacted their political disability identities. I used narrative analysis to analyze the data, which included life history interviews and the authoring of memoirs. …
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Disability Identity in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Letters
… during the period of emerging modern ideas of disability. Coleridge’s letters are valuable to readers in the twenty-first century because they enable us to track the formation and negotiation of Coleridge’s disability identity. As one of the most important thinkers and authors in the English …
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STORIES OF ME: DISABILITY IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN PERSONS WITH ADHD
… developing a strong sense of ADHD identity, adolescents can combat anxiety and stigma. Combatting anxiety and stigma can support student’s postsecondary success. How can teachers help? The study aims to explore the narratives of disability identity from the adult reflective …
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Perceptions of Disability, Identity, Agency, Goal Attainment, and Young Adult Disability Programs
<p>Youth with disability are oppressed and marginalized by a dominant cultural narrative called ableism (Adams, Reiss, and Serlin, 2015; Campbell, 2015 as cited in Adams et al., 2015). Challenging ableism is a matter of social justice. Without serious attitudinal shifts and the removal of systemic …
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Disabled IDF Veterans in Israeli Higher Education: Disability Identity and Use of Support
… on their campuses. The relevant fields of Disability Studies, Veteran Studies, and the use of disability support services on campus are discussed in this study, focusing on the implementation of accessibility regulations and practices in the Israeli HE system concerning the target …
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Validation of the Disability Identity Development Scale Among Student Veterans With Disabilities in Higher Education
… prior studies have explored various aspects of identity both for student veterans and those with disabilities, none has examined how disability identity is developed and measured in this population. Purpose: This study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the Disability Identity …
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Drawing the Line: Visible and Invisible Disability, Identity, and Intersectionality in Award-Winning Graphic Novels for Teens
… study examines the complex social phenomenon of disability representation in teen literature, specifically the Great Graphic Novels for Teens list from the American Library Association. The tenets of critical disability theory guided a critical analysis of both text and imagery to explore how …
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The Art of Disability and Identity: Using Arts-Based Methods to Examine the Relationships between Disability, Identity, and Identity Development for Young, Disabled, Women in Higher Education
… of structural barriers to access. Further, disability within the context of higher education is often thought of through the lens of “service” and support for students with disabilities in higher education often takes a medical model approach of “curing” the student and “treating” their …
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The disclosure dilemma: when and why job applicants differ in disclosing their disability status
… influence an applicant's disclosure of their disability status on job applications, as well as their perceived likelihood of experiencing discrimination. Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act sets a hiring aspiration for 7% of all government organizations to be comprised of people with …
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Understanding resilience in college students with disabilities: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study
… understanding and experiences of resilience, disability identity, and college student identity. More specifically, the researcher sought to uncover potential similarities and differences between college students with disabilities who were considered highly resilient with those who were less …
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The role of exercise in negotiating an identity as disabled: A qualitative exploration of the experiences of individuals with multiple sclerosis
… MS has a tenuous relationship to the field of Disability Studies and mainstream disability activism. Furthermore, the recent surge in research on the impact of exercise/physical activity (PA) participation on symptoms and quality of life among those with MS has shifted exercise and PA promotion …
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Making Connections: Understanding How Social Interaction Patterns Influence Work-related Outcomes for Individuals with Disabilities
… with others, how within person fluctuations in disability identity salience, which might be driven by factors such as disability progression, influence social interaction patterns, or how those social interaction preferences translate to positive or negative outcomes.</p> <p>Drawing from …
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Higher Education Housing Professionals and Disability: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Resident Directors’ Understandings of Disability
… understand and work with issues and concepts of disability. Utilizing constructivist grounded theory, this study examines the ways in which resident directors think about and work with disability within their positions of residential management. The study also explores the ways in which resident …
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Disability hate crime and social work
… and Procurator Fiscal Service, instances of disability hate crime in Scotland have been rising since 2010. The reasons for this have yet to be fully explored in research, although there is a strong belief amongst those working with disabled people, that the vast majority of such incidents go …
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"And then you can prove them wrong": The college experiences of students with intellectual and developmental disability labels
… of students with intellectual and developmental disability labels enrolled in an inclusive postsecondary program, as told by them. Using student-generated digital photographs as visual supports around which to organize focus group conversations, I employ a participatory, phenomenological …
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'I am simply an athlete' : a psychological exploration of athletic identity in physical impairment and amputation
… physical impairments are subject to devalued ‘disability’ identities. There is an increasing amount of research to show that negative experiences of ‘disability’ can be attributed to stigmatising societal attitudes. The first aim of the thesis was to complete a meta-synthesis exploring the …
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Listening to Students with Mild and Moderate Hearing Loss: Learning and Social-Emotional Needs in Educational Contexts
… autonomy. In addition to SDT, a discussion of disability identity development research (e.g., Gill, 1997) provides a supplementary conceptual tool to expand the latent meanings of these experiences and socially constructed elements that students with hearing loss negotiate. Findings provide …
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Are you disabled? Social and cultural factors in understanding disability in Trinidad and Tobago
… an analysis of the under-researched subject of disability in Trinidad and Tobago and presents an understanding of the concepts and contestations of disability as it is lived and experienced by disabled people in T&T. In it disability is explored in the context of identity construction, power …
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Disability representation and portrayal in selected South African soap operas: a content analysis
… and far-reaching consequences not only for an identity of disability but for how non-disabled persons relate to persons with disabilities. Conversely, positive media portrayal and representation has the potential to challenge stereotypes and spread counter-narratives on a wide scale. This study …
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