bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone
Authors: Chew Kristina
Published: March 2016

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In memoriam, John Belluso, 1969-2006
Authors: Lewis Victoria
Published: March 2016

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Tribute to dancer/choreographer Barry Martin
Authors: Linton Simi
Published: March 2016

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Accessible Worship: The Receptivity of Religious Buildings in St. Louis
Authors: Vierkant Katherine E. , Hollingsworth Holly , Stark Susan L.
Published: March 2016

Although participation in organized religion provides many health and psychological benefits, fewer people with disabilities attend religious services than people without disabilities. Some models of disability suggest that one possible cause for this disparity may be the influence of environmental barriers in religious buildings. A random sample of 22 religious buildings in the St. Louis, Mo., metropolitan area was evaluated using the Community Health Environment Checklist to determine what environmental barriers a worshiper with mobility limitations might encounter when attending a worship service and using the restroom. The overall receptivity of participating congregations ranged from 46.7 to 92.1 out of 100, with lower scores indicating less receptivity than higher scores. The age of the building is positively correlated with the receptivity score (p < 0.05), indicating that older buildings are less likely to be receptive to people with mobility impairments. Over half of restrooms evaluated received scores indicating no receptivity. The results indicate that environmental barriers may be a significant barrier to religious participation by people with mobility impairments in some religious congregations. The findings of this study suggest that further examination of the impact of the environment on religious participation by people with disabilities is warranted.
Nondualistic Paradigms in Disability Studies and Buddhism: Creating Bridges for Theoretical Practice
Authors: Bejoian Lynne M.
Published: March 2016

Arising from personal and scholarly concerns as to misperceptions of Buddhism within disability studies, this paper endeavors to explore current interpretations of Buddhism within disability studies context, critique disability studies' assumptions about the value and relevance of this spiritual perspective, and use a classic Tibetan Buddhist text to posit a more current and socially relevant view of disability. Additionally, as a woman with a disability who is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist, the author will bring a personal voice to this area of critical inquiry. Thus, as a scholar committed to disability studies and student of Buddhism, the author will bring professional and personal focus to both "belief systems" to find a space in which both can be recognized and common ground be considered, thereby resulting in a common ground of understanding.
Diva in Hiding: Suffering from Hearing Aid Vanity
Authors: Fields Kimberly
Published: March 2016

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Touch the Sound
Authors: Boslaugh Sarah
Published: March 2016

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Bodies of Difference. Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
Authors: Beauchamp Miles
Published: March 2016

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The Ringer
Authors: Cherney James L.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Polio and Its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture
Authors: Keller Richard C.
Published: March 2016

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Toward an Archetypal Psychology of Disability Based on the Hephaestus Myth
Authors: Ebenstein William
Published: March 2016

Over the last 20 years disability scholars have analyzed representations of people with disabilities as they appear in literature, myth, art, film, media, and other cultural artifacts. This research can contribute to the development of a new archetypal psychology of disability. Archetypal psychology uses mythical and poetic modes of discourse to deepen our understanding of lived experience and behavior. The stories associated with the Greek god Hephaestus are among the earliest representations of disability. His image is pervasive and spans the Western imagination from the ancient Greeks to the present. Thus, a detailed study of this myth is a logical starting point. Archetypal images from different historical eras, and disciplines, co-exist in what C.G. Jung called the "collective unconscious" where they can be compared and contrasted with each other. The Hephaestus myth helps to organize many shared images of disability into meaningful patterns that can inform our understanding of disability in contemporary culture.
Disability Law in the Czech Republic: A Case Study
Authors: Sinecka Jitka
Published: March 2016

The Czech Republic has been in transition from communism to democracy since 1989. How disability has been defined and understood in Czech society is described in political, social and cultural context. The state of law and disability policy is illustrated by a case study involving a mother with a disabled son who had to be placed in an institution due to the lack of financial resources. The case is described as an insight into the current state of disability law and its interpretation in the Czech Republic. This case is examined as a human rights issue and it is argued that the transition from medical model and welfare law to a civil and human rights law, with regard to people with disabilities, has not yet been completed in the Czech Repulic.
Health Care, Euthanasia, Limiting Growth, and Sterilization: What Do They Mean For Disability Studies?
Authors: Smith Phil
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The Morays of Diminished Capacity in Boston Legal
Authors: Zyprexa Zenia Queen Warrior
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Brothers of the Head
Authors: Fore Dana
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Wheelie Catholic
Authors: Harrigan Ruth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
A Dialog
Authors: Dancer Wheelchair
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Cultural Commentary: Our New National Holiday
Authors: Zyprexa Xenia Queen Warrior
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Witnesses with Mental Disabilities: Accommodations and the Search for Truth
Authors: Ziv Neta
Published: March 2016

In 2005 Israel enacted a comprehensive law requiring accommodations for persons with disabilities in the justice system. The Investigation and Testimony Procedural Act (Accommodations for Persons with Mental or Cognitive Disabilities) of 2005 applies to police investigations and court testimony of persons with mental and cognitive disabilities, if they are suspected of committing a severe crime, witness such a crime, or are victims of one. Many of the accommodations required by the law involve input from professionals in therapeutic disciplines such as psychiatrists, psychologists, criminologists and social workers. Thus, therapeutic professionals offer the judiciary alternative measures to understand and construe human behavior. Their intervention in the legal field occurs in what seems to be the most fundamental function of courts, through which they base their legitimacy and their claim to exclusive knowledge and skill - the ability to ascertain the truth.

This paper probes the encounter between the justice system and these disciplines at the evidentiary stage, when persons with mental and cognitive disabilities testify in court about crimes committed against them. Persons with mental disabilities are more likely than others to become victims of crime and assault. Only lately has the justice system begun to address measures that must be undertaken to protect them from abuse; the Israeli Act is a favorable step in this direction.
Cultural Commentary: In Search of a Miracle Pill
Authors: Solis Santiago
Published: March 2016

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Cultural Commentary
Authors: Garland-Thomson Rosemarie
Published: March 2016

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Gonna Buy You a Mockingbird
Authors: Harmon K.C.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Diane Pothier and Richard Devlin, eds. Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics, and Law.
Authors: Thompson Tim
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Lucia Perillo. I've Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature
Authors: Lambeth Laurie Clements
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Introduction to DSQ Theme Issue on Disability in Canada
Authors: Reaume Geoffrey
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Crip-Academic, Disabled-Writer, Sparrow on Wheels and other Split-Identities: Reflections on the Oxymoronic Aspects of Writing an Auto/Biographical Novel about Disability
Authors: Janz Heidi L.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Vitreous by David Ray Vance
Authors: Durgin Patrick
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson
Authors: Cummins Amy
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Editors' Introduction, Spring 2008
Authors: Brueggemann Brenda , Danforth Scot
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Poem
Authors: Cheu Johnson
Published: March 2016

Title(s): Disabled Child at the Community Pool

Johnson Cheu is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University. His poetry and essays have appeared in publications such as Family Matters: Poems of our Families and Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Literary Disability.
Poems
Authors: Ferris Jim
Published: March 2016

Title(s): Manifest Destiny, Personal Improvement, Not Dead Yet, Obviously

Jim Ferris is an award-winning poet and disability studies scholar. His poetry collections include The Hospital Poems and Facts of Life. Past president of the Society for Disability Studies, he teaches disability studies and communication arts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In Fall 2008 Ferris will assume the Ability Center of Greater Toledo Endowed Chair in Disability Studies at the University of Toledo.
Poems
Authors: Gritz Ona
Published: March 2016

Title(s): Guide Dog, Hemiplegia I, Hemiplegia II, and Lesson One

Ona Gritz's poetry has been published in numerous online and print literary journals. In 2007, she won the Inglis House Poetry Contest, the Late Blooms Poetry Postcard Competition, and was nominated for two Pushcart prizes. Her chapbook of poems, Left Standing, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2005. She has written two books for children, including Tangerines and Tea: My Grandparents and Me, which was named Best Alphabet Book of 2005 by Nick Jr. Family Magazine and one of six best children's books of the year by Scholastic Parent & Child Magazine. Gritz writes a monthly column for the online journal, Literary Mama, about her experiences as a mother with a disability raising her nondisabled son.
Contributor Biographies
Authors: Ferris Jim
Published: March 2016

Title(s):
From Marginalization to Participation and Back Again: Including People with Learning Difficulties in Research—But For How Long?
Authors: Jones Stephanie P.
Published: March 2016

This paper critically evaluates a qualitative research project investigating strategies for success in supported employment for people with learning difficulties. The project aimed to be participatory, involving people with learning difficulties at each stage of the research, including the appointment of a trainee researcher with learning difficulties. Consideration is made as to how truly participatory the project was, and for what length of time. The marginalised status of disabled people within such an academic endeavor, even one setting out to be participatory, is discussed and found to be problematic, as following the participation of the trainee researcher in this social research project he returned to his previous social status, reflecting the marginalization of disabled people within society more generally.
Development of Disability Studies in Japan: A Brief Outline
Authors: Osamu Nagase
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Jonathan Glover. Choosing Children: Genes, Disability, and Design
Authors: LeBesco Kathleen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Calls for Papers and Announcements
Authors: Authors Various
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
How Will the Changeover to Digital Broadcasting in 2009 Influence the Accessibility of TV for Americans With Disabilities?
Authors: Pedlow Robert
Published: March 2016

The current paper reports on the numbers of people with disability expected to experience difficulty in accessing television as a result of the planned changeover from analogue to digital broadcasting in the US in 2009. The major accessibility issues for digital TV are reviewed focusing on digital set-top boxes that are expected to be the primary means of access to digital TV for people on low incomes. The changeover to digital TV will reduce the ease of access to broadcast TV for people with disability. As broadcast TV is mostly relied on by people on low income people with disability on low incomes will be at increased risk of exclusion due to the changeover. Older people with disability especially those aging into disability are less likely to access disability information or have connections with the disability community compared to the younger disabled and as a result may be at greater risk of being excluded.
Disability, Citizenship and Uncivilized Society: The smooth and nomadic qualities of self-advocacy
Authors: Roets Griet , Goodley Dan
Published: March 2016

People with the label of "intellectual disabilities"1 are often objectified and devalued by master narratives of deviance, tragedy and lack. In this paper, we draw on poststructuralist and feminist resources (e.g. Deleuze & Guattari 1987 and Braidotti 1994, 2002, 2006a) to argue that a disabling society is uncivilized in ways that block the becomings of citizenship. We draw upon our work with self-advocacy groups in England and Belgium where self-advocates open up different life worlds. We shed light on their politics of resistance and resilience, and map how they, as politicized citizen subjects, move in a web of oppressive disability discourses. However, we suggest, as nomads, they set foot on the landmarks of their lives in a never-ending search for smooth spaces in which something different might happen.
What Makes Mr. Hyde So Scary?: Disability as a Result of Evil and Cause of Fear
Authors: Schalk Sami , Powell Kerry
Published: March 2016

This article brings Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde under the lens of disability studies by exploring the role disability plays in the creation of Mr. Hyde as a villain. Utilizing both historical and current understandings of disability, this article discusses how Mr. Hyde's social and cultural disconformities are reliant upon the understanding of Hyde as "deformed." "What Makes Mr. Hyde So Scary" contends that what makes Mr. Hyde so frightening to other characters, and perhaps to readers as well, is not inherent evil, but disability itself.
Autistic Acceptance, the College Campus, and Technology: Growth of Neurodiversity in Society and Academia
Authors: Robertson Scott M. , Ne'eman Ari D.
Published: March 2016

This paper presents an in-depth examination of autistic acceptance on college campuses from the perspective of two academic scholars who are both autistic.1 This inquiry first describes the history of the emergence and growth of the neurological diversity and autistic rights movements. These movements led to the development of a unified autistic disability culture and community. Then the paper shares how autistic acceptance on college campuses has received increasing attention in parallel with expanded focus on autistic acceptance in society. It highlights major challenges impacting autistic people attending colleges and universities, as well as potential solutions for resolving those challenges and cultivating understanding and support of autistic people among the broader culture of colleges and universities.This paper examines the emergence of autistic acceptance in society and the growth of support for autistic people on the college campus. It is written from the authors' perspectives as autistic persons who pursued college studies, and both authors are active scholars and advocates in the cross-disability community.
Access to Mainstream Microfinance Services for Persons with Disabilities – Lessons Learned from Uganda
Authors: Bwire Flavia Nakabuye , Mukasa George , Mersland Roy
Published: March 2016

This article reports from a pilot project in Uganda where the aim is to enable persons with disabilities to have access to mainstream microfinance services. Several lessons have already been learned: 1) entrepreneurs with disabilities are an untapped market opportunity for Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs); 2) to influence MFIs it is important to understand their business model and team up with key actors from the industry; 3) persons with disabilities are often misinformed about MFIs’ terms and services and don’t know how to tap these opportunities. Gradually a change in attitudes in MFIs and Disabled Peoples Organizations (DPOs) is observed. All MFIs participating in the project now report an increase in the number of clients with disabilities served. This is happening without the use of any economic incentives.
Human Rights of Children with Disabilities in Israel - The Vision and the Reality
Authors: Feldman Dina
Published: March 2016

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, from 1989, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, from 2007, define a vision in which party States ensure the welfare of children with disabilities and their right to enjoy a full and respected life in the community, with their families, in conditions which meet their basic needs and ensure their ability to actualize their potential, enjoy basic liberty, freedom of expression, active and inclusive participation in the community life, based on equal opportunities. Approximately 8.7% of the children in Israel cope with functional challenges, disabilities or chronic diseases requiring constant intervention through medical or non medical care. The aim of the current article is to outline the international vision defined by the Conventions and the situation in Israel regarding the rights of children with disabilities to life, life with family in the community, education, health and accessibility – as legislated and as actually implemented. The article shows that Israel is committed to the international conventions and has invested much in legislation, budget and services for ensuring the social rights of children with disabilities in all areas of life. However Israel still faces the challenges of carrying out the paradigm shift towards the human rights model of disability in practice, by ensuring equal opportunities; by abolishing the poverty and discrimination of the geographical and social periphery; and by implementing inclusive education and accessible public areas and services to all.
Three Poems
Authors: Papalia Carmen
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
He Swaggers: Reflections on the Title Character in The Cripple of Inishmaan
Authors: Connor David J.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story
Authors: Sandahl Carrie
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Reflections on the K-12 years in public schools: Relations with hearing teachers and peers from the perspective of deaf and hard-of-hearing adults
Authors: Ostrove Joan M. , Oliva Gina A. , Katowitz Abigail
Published: March 2016

This study explores how members of systematically disadvantaged groups describe their interactions with members of dominant groups. In an effort to examine both positive and negative intergroup relations, this paper reports on a study of deaf and hard-of-hearing adults’ retrospective accounts of their best and worst experiences with hearing teachers and peers when they attended their local public schools during their K-12 years (Oliva, 2004). Written accounts from 60 deaf and hard-of-hearing adults were content analyzed. Their most positive experiences occurred when hearing teachers and peers were accommodating, encouraging, supportive, and interested in deafness. Negative reflections described hearing teachers and peers who were discriminatory, non-accommodating, and insensitive.
Kim Nielsen. Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Story of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller. Boston: Beacon Press, 2009.
Authors: Kleege Georgina
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Commentary 5
Authors: Gilson Stephen , DePoy Elizabeth
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Charts
Authors: Cushing Pamela , Smith Tyler
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Bye-Bye Charlie
Authors: Trent James
Published: March 2016

no abstract available
A Pentadic Reflection, Personal and Professional, on the OSU-Kenya Exchange.
Authors: Brueggemann Brenda
Published: March 2016

no abstract available
“The lying’st knave in Christendom”: The Development of Disability in the False Miracle of St. Alban’s
Authors: Row-Heyveld Lindsey
Published: March 2016

This article examines various retellings of a single story to explore how conceptions of disability changed throughout the English Reformation.  The tale of a false miracle feigned and revealed in the village of St. Alban’s during the reign of Henry VI was recounted by a number of authors: Thomas More, Richard Grafton, John Foxe, and, finally, William Shakespeare.  More’s version imagines a disability that is shaped by an understanding of mutual exchange between disabled and able-bodied persons.  The Reformation eliminated that exchange, and its loss is reflected in the other accounts of the false miracle of St. Alban’s where disability is imagined as increasingly dangerous, deceptive, and emasculating.  I argue that Shakespeare, in particular, expands negative post-Reformation ideas about disability in 2 Henry VI, while simultaneously demonstrating the inability to contain disability in a period that anxiously struggled to define and regulate it.
Identity, Efficiency and Disability Rights
Authors: Little Deborah
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Tailoring
Authors: Kuppers Petra
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
The “Ransom Notes” Affair: When the Neurodiversity Movement Came of Age
Authors: Kras Joseph F
Published: March 2016

Medical advertising and public service announcements have the potential to increase public awareness of various conditions. Modern advertising techniques may increase the effectiveness of such campaigns. Different philosophical models of how disorders are perceived may markedly affect how ad campaigns are conducted and perceived. This paper will recount one instance of advertising that was felt to be especially offensive to disabled individuals, as well as the response to that campaign. The organized response assisted in defining and solidifying the neurodiversity movement.
Neurodiversity, Quality of Life, and Autistic Adults: Shifting Research and Professional Focuses onto Real-Life Challenges
Authors: Robertson Scott Michael
Published: March 2016

This article examines challenges to the quality of life experienced by autistic adults. The author, who is an autistic researcher, first shares how a neurodiversity perspective offers an important alternative to the deficit model of autism. Whereas the deficit model portrays autistic people as ill, broken, and in need of fixing, the neurodiversity perspective portrays it as a form of human diversity with associated strengths and difficulties. The article’s discussion then shifts to presenting Schalock’s (2000) quality of life framework as a neurodiversity-compatible lens through which domains of quality of life can be viewed. The article analyzes in detail these core domains in relation to the lives of autistic adults. The author suggests that a collaborative approach between professionals/researchers and autistic adults is needed to develop meaningful solutions to these challenges, and he presents possibilities for collaboration.  KeywordsAutism, Neurodiversity, Quality of life, Autistic Adults
“Public Law 109-416 Is Not Just about Scientific Research”: Speaking Truth to Power at Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee Meetings
Authors: Durbin-Westby Paula C
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Author Biographies
Authors: Savarese Ralph James
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Five Poems
Authors: Mukhopadhyay Tito Rajarshi
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
LD and the rise of Highly Gifted and Talented Programs: Examining similar rationales across decades and designations
Authors: Young Kathryn
Published: March 2016

Sleeter’s 1987 article “Why is there Learning Disabilities?” provides an analytical template for examining the rise in discourse surrounding Highly Gifted and Talented (HGT) programs in the past ten years. This article begins with an historical and policy account of the local context that supported the rise of HGT. Then it highlights three key rationales from Sleeter’s paper to demonstrate how the discourse related to supporting the rise of LD is reconstituted into the discourse related to supporting the rise of HGT. These discourses are analyzed using critical discourse analysis to demonstrate how the rhetoric for LD and HGT maintains race and class stratification in the public school system. This article finishes with an example of one school with an HGT program that believes students can have their needs met without separating them.
Building Counter-Theory about Disability
Authors: Sleeter Christine
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Deaf Mothers: Communication, Activism, and the Family
Authors: Najarian Souza Cheryl
Published: March 2016

This article examines the mothering experiences of college educated Deaf women and connects this to their identities as part of the Deaf community. Using feminist life history interviews with ten Deaf women, the analysis focuses on their work as mothers and the connections with "maternal thinking," difference, and sameness. Findings include an analysis of the various strategies that these mothers used in their mothering, which include teaching the skills of lifetime educators and self-advocates to deaf children, sending their hearing children to Kids of Deaf Adults (KODA) camps and incorporating their activism and volunteering in their mothering. The author argues that an analysis of ability along with gender is useful to further current theorizing about gender and mothering as a kind of work and that an analysis of the role of language allows us to question the idea that mothering is an innate quality of women. Instead, the author argues that, due to the social context of their life situations, "maternal thinking" and language choice are learned practices that these women negotiate in their work as mothers.
Nadja Durbach’s Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture
Authors: Martina Alexis
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Burch, Susan & Hannah Joyner, Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson
Authors: Franz Sarah
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Beyond Models: Some Tentative Daoist Contributions to Disability Studies
Authors: Stoltzfus Michael , Schumm Darla
Published: March 2016

Seeking a way of dynamic balance in the midst of uncertainty and ambiguity is both a core Daoist teaching and a central experience of individuals living with chronic disability or illness. This essay incorporates core Daoist themes to map alternative ways for thinking and talking about disability and chronic conditions. A Daoist worldview can offer distinctive modes of responding to chronic disabilities which move beyond standard or typical models. Daoism illustrates that many forms of human embodiment are aspects of a single, ever-changing way and invites the integration of disability into the understanding of human life without necessitating categorization, definition, or cure.
"He that Hath an Ear to Hear": Deaf America and the Second Great Awakening
Authors: Altschuler Sari
Published: March 2016

This essay explores the American Deaf community as a revealing limit-case for constructions of nineteenth-century national identity — specifically, how the religious boom during the Second Great Awakening rhetorically, structurally, and conceptually clashed with the Deaf community it spawned. The argument has three parts. The first part is a prehistory that explores the relationship between early nineteenth-century evangelism and construction of the first American Deaf community. The second part probes the hearing-based rhetoric and practice of evangelical preachers and the problems that deaf people the posed to emerging Protestant-American identity. The last section focuses on the actual battleground — language — arguing that oralism/manualism conflicts grew impassioned because they both located issues that deaf people raised with regard to oral transmission and became a lightning rod for less articulable threats to national unity. Finally, I suggest that many significant contributions Deaf studies has to offer American history and historiography have yet to be explored.
Review of Johnson’s Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality and Martin’s Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and Depression in American Culture
Authors: Mintz Susannah
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Disability Studies and the Language of Physical Education Curriculum
Authors: Lee Susan S.
Published: March 2016

Disability studies questions taken-for-granted practices which can marginalize and exclude disabled students. Consciousness raising and questioning of attitudes and practices need to happen at all levels from educators to administrators to researchers to be able to transform a physical education curriculum. Meaningful change which desires the appearance of disability can facilitate future physical educators to learn and build positive attitudes towards working with disabled persons. Desiring disability is a critical paradigm shift from perceiving disabled persons as the “other” to embracing their individual and collective identities as valued lived experience. Disability studies provides a theoretical perspective to contribute to the discourses on special education, adapted physical education, personhood, and difference to reveal the complexity of the impact of taken-for-granted language in our everyday lives. Recommendations for changes to the language of university curriculum may contribute to the desire for the appearance of disability within higher education culture, and physical education practices.
Men's Short-term Experience of Acquired Physical Disabilities in Japan
Authors: Tagaki Masakuni
Published: March 2016

This study examines the life-changing implications of acquired physical disability from a short-term perspective. The participants consisted of 14 men, each of whom had sustained a spinal cord injury on an average of five years before the study. A semi-structured interview was conducted twice with each participant in order to outline the characteristics of his post-injury life. No participant over-estimated the influence of disability on his life; some participants stated that the disadvantages they faced could be attributed to things other than their disabilities. They developed social identities as people with acquired disabilities through their relationships with others with similar disabilities. To alleviate their sense of loss, the participants emphasized unchanged aspects of their pre-injury lives.
Review of Price, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Everyday Life
Authors: Kerschbaum Stephanie
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Small, Stitches: A Memoir
Authors: St. Pierre Scott
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Speaking of—and as—Stigma: Performativity and Parkinson's in the Rhetoric of Michael J. Fox
Authors: Quackenbush Nicole
Published: March 2016

In this essay, I utilize the intersections between disability theory and rhetorical theory to identify two key and interconnected stages of actor and activist Michael J. Fox's performativity of disabled identity: first, a rhetoric of passing and second, a rhetoric of masquerade.  Ultimately, I claim that Fox as a visibly disabled rhetor speaks both as stigma—because his rhetoric issues from and through his body as he experiences Parkinso'’s disease—and of stigma—because he performs disability not just to provide an exigency for research into cures but also to challenge the cultural norms that dehumanize the disabled subject.
Seeing Red: Color Selection as an Indicator of Implicit Societal Conceptions about the Autism Spectrum
Authors: Diehl Joshua John , Wolf Julie , Herlihy Lauren , Moller Arlen C.
Published: March 2016

We explore how implicit associations with the label "autism" influence how people with the diagnosis are represented and perceived. A recent trend in public discourse has been to add descriptors to autism, such as "high-functioning" or "spectrum," possibly to minimize the perceived stigma associated with the diagnosis. We examined the colors used by researchers in poster graphs to represent the term autism. Research has indicated that the color red has implicit negative associations when evaluation of competence is salient. We found that red was used more often for groups with an autism label than other groups. Further, the use of red was less frequent when there were qualifiers for autism such as "high-functioning,"  "spectrum," or for Asperger syndrome. We assert that this pattern is evidence of implicit, negative societal associations with the word autism that influence discourse on the diagnosis.
The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris
Authors: Joshua Essaka
Published: March 2016

Buildings often employ visual and spatial rhetorics that both persuade us of their function and determine personal functionality. Architectural language is a defining feature of disability in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and a universally accessible language. In emphasizing the synecdochic relationship between gothic buildings and the disabled body, Hugo demonstrates that he is not only a pioneer in urban and architectural semantics, but that he also understands the complex symbolic relationship between architecture and the disabled body. Defining beauty as atypicality, through the gothic aesthetic, Hugo presents Notre Dame Cathedral as a uniquely drifting symbol (with its multiple meanings, its transitional status and its cultural miscegenation) with a revelatory function: it expresses disability as normative.
"I Just Absolutely Loved What I Did": The Rhetorical Construction of a Disabled Identity
Authors: Stephens Yvonne
Published: March 2016

Siebers (2008) calls for a move beyond the social model of disability toward a "theory of complex embodiment" that allows for acknowledgment of the "negative" aspects of embodied disability and, in turn, allows for the adoption of a disabled identity. I answer Siebers' call by analyzing the discourse of one disabled individual—my father, a man with multiple sclerosis—and discussing his complex identity construction as a disabled person who sees the disability as a source of strength and knowledge as well as a source of suffering. Returning to that on which the social model is built—rhetoric—I argue that his rhetorical construction of a disabled identity is necessary and provides evidence for the need to step beyond the social model as currently conceived.
Review of Barron and Ncube, Poverty and Disability
Authors: Berghs Maria
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Review of Ellis and Kent, Disability and New Media
Authors: Howard Laura
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Staring Contest
Authors: Unikel Joshua
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Authors: Brunson Jeremy L. , Loeb Mitchell E.
Published: March 2016

No abstract available
Communication Mediated by a Powered Wheelchair: People with Profound Cognitive Disabilities
Authors: Nilsson Lisbeth
Published: March 2016

Keywords guidance, interaction, feeling experiences, self-recognition, concept formation, orientation, intentionality, agency, communicative behavior Abstract The Driving to Learn project explored what people with profound cognitive disabilities could achieve from practice in a joystick-operated powered wheelchair and what facilitated their eventual achievements. Grounded theory methodology was applied for a project involving 45 children and adults with profound cognitive disabilities, 64 with milder degrees of cognitive disabilities, and 17 infants with typical development. The findings included two lines of development: (1) growing consciousness of joystick-use and powered mobility use, and (2) learning communication by driving. An emerging approach for facilitating tool use learning also nurtured the participants' alertness, attention to social exchange, development of sense of self, anticipation, intentionality and a will in mind that was communicated through showing by driving. Significance: Becoming capable of showing communicative intentions, even in a limited sense, changed the attention, interaction and responsiveness of social others. This in turn increased the participants' opportunities for development of more shared meanings and communication.
Constraints in Access to Assistive Technologies - and Communication - for Hard-of-Hearing People in the Russian Federation and in Germany
Authors: Chupina Karina
Published: March 2016

Keywordsassistive listening devices, accessibility, hard of hearing, hearing aid, communication, procedures, rehabilitationAbstractThis paper is an attempt to shed light on the specific constraints faced by hard of hearing (HoH) people in accessing assistive listening devices that are vital to their communication capability, functionality and participation in the society. It will focus on the situation of HoH people in such countries as Germany and the Russian Federation – the countries that were part of the first international research project "Hard of Hearing Young People in Europe: developing strategies on access to equal participation, social inclusion and protection of human rights." The project, the only of its kind, has been conducted by IFHOHYP, the International Federation of Hard of Hearing Young People, and was supported by the Council of Europe. The research was conducted through analysis of the results of the a) quantitative questionnaires on access to information, education, employment, communication, governmental support and knowledge of national protective legal framework – the questionnaires were disseminated amongst HoH individuals in several European countries; b) qualitative semi-structured interviews with the experts in the field (policy experts, leaders of the non-profit organizations of/for people with hearing loss, government representatives).
Safe in the Hands of the Interpreter? A Qualitative Study Investigating the Legal Protection of Deaf People Facing the Criminal Justice System in Norway
Authors: Kermit Patrick , Mj Odd Morten , Olsen Terje
Published: March 2016

KeywordsCriminal justice, Deaf, Sign Language, Interpreting, ProfessionAbstractOver the last thirty years Deaf people in Norway have obtained extensive rights to sign language interpreting. During this period, a public national interpreting service has been established to cope with the growing demands for interpreters. However, little is known about how this development has influenced interpreting in different contexts. This paper addresses questions concerning the legal protection of deaf people facing the criminal justice system. A central issue of concern is what kind of communicative barriers Deaf people encounter. An empirical study is presented where sixteen strategically recruited informants participated: nine sign language interpreters and seven representatives from the Norwegian criminal justice system. The methodological approach was qualitative, open-ended interviews. The results indicate that Deaf people benefit from the professionalization of the interpreters in many ways. At the same time, as a profession, interpreters have a responsibility for defining their role. It is questionable whether or not interpreters always make professional decisions in deaf people’s best interest.
Managing Social Exclusion through Technology: An Example of Art as Mediated Action
Authors: Al Zidjaly Najma
Published: March 2016

KeywordsDisability, Art, Technology, Social Exclusion, Social Inclusion, Agency, Mediated Actio, Culture, OmanAbstractThe compelling role that art plays in managing emotions and healing is well documented in disability research (Ainsworth-Vaughn, 1998; Corbett, 1999; Al Zidjaly, 2005, 2007). The strategic role that art can play in combating social exclusion and inciting societal change, however, is under-examined. This article extends recent developments in multimodality that build on mediated discourse analysis (Scollon, 2001) to fill this gap. It demonstrates how a person with a disability from the Islamic Arab country Oman, where the outdated medical model of disability still prevails, strategically uses a semiotic resource (Microsoft PowerPoint) to create mediated actions (animated music videos) that manage interpersonal and social exclusion. I specifically focus on how Yahya, creatively draws on various cultural customs in making these music videos. I also show how this plays a role in not only alleviating disability's effect on Yahya's social life, but also in leading to wider social change. In viewing art as a form of mediated action, this study has far-reaching consequences for both disability and multimodality studies—in particular, regarding the various multimodal ways through which exclusion can be managed. The study also contributes to our understanding of disability and its relationship to art and technology in a non-Western culture.
"Freedom herself is very agile, very co-dependent, and a lovely person": The School Identities of High School Aged Youth with Communication Differences
Authors: Bennett Andrew B.
Published: March 2016

Keywordsadolescent identities, speech disabilities, high school structures, facilitated communication, alternative and augmentative communicationAbstractThree users of Facilitated Communication, between the ages were observed and interviewed (utilizing methods found in Biklen & Bogdan, 2007, along with their parents and speech pathologist, about their lives, in particular their school lives. The study was concerned with the intersection between disability identity, Facilitated Communication / alternative and augmentative communication usage, and adolescent identities with special focus on how this intersection impacts these students at school. Data was collected and coded utilizing theories both from Nancy Lesko's conceptualization of the construction of adolescence (2001) and Martha Sheridan's work on lifeworld identities (2008).The study reveals how inclusion and exclusion in and out of school impact student attitudes toward school in general and academic work specifically, as well as independence / interdependence / co-dependence issues.
Talking with Our Son: Helping an Autistic Child Navigate the World of Neurologically Typical Communication
Authors: Mont D.
Published: March 2016

Keywordsmediated communication, disability narrative, autism, education, development
Interpreted Ideals and Relayed Rights: Video Interpreting Services as Objects of Politics
Authors: Haualand Hilde
Published: March 2016

Key WordsVideo interpreting, video relay services, comparative politics, legislation, accessibilityAbstractThe different definitions of video interpreting (VI) services in the U.S., Sweden and Norway serve as a foundation for a discussion on how a technology that at first may appear the same, serves widely different goals in different social and political contexts. In the U.S., video interpreting is defined as a telecommunication service to secure functional equivalence for all. In Sweden, the goal is to secure access to telecommunication services for disabled people. In Norway, VI is defined and organized as an extension of the public sign language interpreter service. This article gives insight into how ideology and politics shape the organization of a certain technology or service and impact the very scope and benefit of the technology itself. Further, the paper shows how the emerging VI services are interpreted, in light of the existing politcal ideals in each of the three countries, and how the services gradually also relay a certain set of rights through the way they are organised.
AAC, Aging, and Telephone Relay Access Technology
Authors: Segalman Robert
Published: March 2016

Keywordsalternative and augmentative communication (AAC), telephone Relay Access Technology, aging, disability narrative, experience
Teaching Using Mediated Communication at a University
Authors: Wangeman Matthew , Mahosky Katherine , McDermott John , Anderson Tanya
Published: March 2016

KeywordsAAC, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University, Teaching, Institute for Human Development-NAU.AbstractThis article will discuss teaching using mediated communication and the advantages to students of this experience in their initial exposure to disability studies. I am an instructor for an Introduction to Disability Studies class at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Given my speech disability, I'm not your average instructor; I use an alternative mode of communication, or mediated communication, to communicate and, so, to teach at the university level. My two main communication methods include a letter board (accessed with a head-pointer and the use of an interpreter), and a speech device. The letter board is an array of letters, numbers and most frequently used words. My interpreter re-voices the letters or words that I indicate using a pointer attached to a bicycle helmet that I wear. My speech device, the ECOpoint™, is an eye-gaze system; the letter or word on the display screen upon which I focus is selected and spoken aloud. With this form of mediated communication, I do not require an interpreter. I use both methods of communication in class. This article will include the perspectives of my co-teacher, several students and my interpreter about the use of mediated communication to teach the introductory course of the new Disability Studies Minor at NAU. A co-teaching arrangement has allowed me to take a direct role in creating and delivering content foundational to disability studies. Also discussed will be the advantages of one–to-one interviews that I conduct with each of my students, as well as the overall instructional value of utilizing mediated communication in university classrooms, particularly in the disability studies field. Before proceeding, please click here: Wangeman and Mahosky Interview
Nothing About Us Without Us: Mounting A Disability Arts Exhibit in Berkeley, California
Authors: Kuppers Petra
Published: March 2016

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Rainey, Sarah Smith. Love, Sex, and Disability: The Pleasures of Care
Authors: Stevens Bethany
Published: March 2016

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Saints, Sages, and Victims: Endorsement of and Resistance to Cultural Stereotypes in Memoirs by Parents of Children with Disabilities
Authors: Piepmeier Alison
Published: March 2016

Memoirs written by parents of children with disabilities are a significant recent genre. Most are problematic: through their use of grief, their emphasis on a medicalized model, and their framing of the child's disabilities, these memoirs represent the child not as a person but as a problem with which the parents have had to grapple. Many memoirs, however, simultaneously work to humanize and value the children and reframe our cultural view of "typical" personhood through the lens of disability. This complex, popular genre reveals the powerful hold that formulaic narratives have, but also offers glimpses of ways in which formulaic narratives can and should be resisted and overturned. The books I examine demonstrate that the family can be a site that both bolsters oppressive cultural models of disability and profoundly challenges them.Keywordsmemoir, children with disabilities, parents, grief, dehumanization, pleasure, resistance