Negotiating Disability

Negotiating Disability
Author: Stephanie L. Kerschbaum
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472123394

Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff. While disclosing one’s disability and identifying shared experiences can engender moments of solidarity, the situation is always complicated by the intersecting factors of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. With disability disclosure as a central point of departure, this collection of essays builds on scholarship that highlights the deeply rhetorical nature of disclosure and embodied movement, emphasizing disability disclosure as a complex calculus in which degrees of perceptibility are dependent on contexts, types of interactions that are unfolding, interlocutors’ long- and short-term goals, disabilities, and disability experiences, and many other contingencies.

Negotiating the Special Education Maze

Negotiating the Special Education Maze
Author: Winifred Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780933149724

One of the best resources available to parents, teachers, and school administrators for understanding the special education system and learning how to make it work.

Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Author: Nancy G. Klimas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1136789898

Disability and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical, Legal, and Patient Perspectives explores methods to assess severity of illness and impairment in persons suffering with CFS. It shows that more work needs to be done to develop objective measures of impairment that accurately reflect the patient's degree of disability. Contributors explore possible answers to the questions: How can a clinician quantify the degree of impairment? How can the legal and judicial systems weigh the facts and the impact of this illness on each person with CFS? How does a patient persevere and get past the barriers, despite his/her illness?

What Mothers Say about Special Education

What Mothers Say about Special Education
Author: J. Valle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230619738

This book is an alternative account of special education from the cross-generational perspective of 15 mothers whose children labelled learning dis/abled (LD) attended public schools during the last four decades.

Ending Discrimination in Special Education

Ending Discrimination in Special Education
Author: Herbert Grossman
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN:

The assessment, instruction, classroom management, and counseling approaches currently in practice are, for the most part, inappropriate for the numerous poor, non-European American, immigrant, refugee, migrant, rural, and limited English-proficient students in special education programs because they have been designed for European American, middle- and upper-class, English-proficient students. Prejudice toward these children, although often unconscious, is yet another form of discrimination. When teachers refer students for evaluation for possible placement in special education programs, they are more likely to refer poor and non-European American students for placement in programs for students with disabilities and less likely to refer them to programs for the gifted and talented. Doctor Grossman discusses the forces that create and perpetuate these and other discriminatory assessment, instructional, classroom management, and counseling approaches and provides readers with workable solutions for eliminating them, though the ideas, suggestions, and conclusions described are controversial.

Negotiating Digital Citizenship

Negotiating Digital Citizenship
Author: Anthony McCosker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2016-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783488905

With pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a constant tension between the promise of new forms of social engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the risk of harm and harassment. Negotiating Digital Citizenship explores the diversity of experiences that define digital citizenship. These range from democratic movements that advocate social change via social media platforms to the realities of online abuse, racial or sexual intolerance, harassment and stalking. Young people, educators, social service providers and government authorities have become increasingly enlisted in a new push to define and perform ‘good’ digital citizenship, yet there is little consensus on what this term really means and sparse analysis of the vested interests that drive its definition. The chapters probe the idea of digital citizenship, map its use among policy makers, educators, and activists, and identify avenues for putting the concept to use in improving the digital environments and digitally enabled tenets of contemporary social life. The components of digital citizenship are dissected through questions of control over our online environments, the varieties of contest and activism and possibilities of digital culture and creativity.

Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion

Disability, Spaces and Places of Policy Exclusion
Author: Karen Soldatic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135008760

Geographies of disability have become a key research priority for many disability scholars and geographers. This edited collection, incorporating the work of leading international disability researchers, seeks to expand the current geographical frame operating within the realm of disability. Providing a critical and comprehensive examination of disability and spatial processes of exclusion and inclusion for disabled people, the book uniquely brings together insights from disability studies, spatial geographies and social policy with the purpose of exploring how spatial factors shape, limit or enhance policy towards, and the experiences of, disabled people. Divided into two parts, the first section explores the key concepts to have emerged within the field of disability geographies, and their relationship to new policy regimes. New and emerging concepts within the field are critically explored for their significance in conceptually framing disability. The second section provides an in-depth examination of disabled people’s experience of changing landscapes within the onset of emerging disability policy regimes. It deals with how the various actors and stakeholders, such as governments, social care agencies, families and disabled people traverse these landscapes under the new conditions laid out by changing policy regimes. Crucially, the chapters examine the lived meaning of changing spatial relations for disabled people. Grounded in recent empirical research, and with a global focus, each of the chapters reveal how social policy domains are challenged or undermined by the spatial realities faced by disabled people, and expands existing understandings of disability. In turn, the book supports readers to grasp future policy directions and processes that enable disabled people's choices, rights and participation. This important work will be invaluable reading for students and researchers involved in disability, geography and social policy.