bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
A National Disgrace: Health Disparities Encountered by Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Johnson Jean , Woll Josie
Published: March 2016

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A Partially Annotated Bibliography of Publications in the Field of Disability Studies for the Year 2000
Authors: Pfeiffer David
Published: March 2016

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Symposium on Disability and the Life Course: Introduction to the Symposium
Authors: Priestley Mark
Published: March 2016

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Troubling Signs: Disability, Hollywood Movies and the Construction of a Discourse of Pity
Authors: Hayes Michael , Black Rhonda
Published: March 2016

In this article the authors explore images of disability in Hollywood movies. Our analysis draws from the historical-philosophical method of Michel Foucault. We argue that in Hollywood films disability is extricated from its concrete manifestation as a physical or mental condition and treated as a cultural sign. When read across the different movies the signs of disability can be coalesced into what Foucault calls a discourse. Discourses are socially produced ways of talking about an object that situate the object within socially produced relations of power. We argue that when viewed this way disability becomes situated within a discourse of pity. In Hollywood films the discourse of pity articulates disability as a problem of social, physical and emotional confinement. The disabled character's thwarted quest for freedom ultimately leads to remanding the character back to the confines of a paternalistic relationship of subordination.
Attitudes Toward Disability in the Helping Professions
Authors: Pfeiffer David , Sam Anna , Guinan Martha , Ratliffe Katherine , Robinson Nancy , Stodden Norma
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ethnic and religious perspectives of people who are training for and working in the helping professions regarding disability and people with disabilities. An inference is that these perspectives effect the ways in which personnel in the helping professions react to and deal with people with disabilities. The Modified Issues in Disabilities Scale (MIDS) was administered to a sample of persons working in the helping professions and/or training to enter them. The scores on the MIDS can be viewed as a knowledge inventory about persons with disabilities or as a scale measuring attitudes toward persons with disabilities. A statistically significant association was found between ethnic and religious perspectives and the scores on the MIDS. The conclusion is that people preparing to enter and people presently in the helping professions, but more importantly teachers of people studying to enter the helping professions, must be aware of the influence of ethnic and religious perspectives and how to counter any negative effects which are to be found.
Re/Presenting Disability and Illne Foucault and two 20th Century Fictions
Authors: Markotic Nicole
Published: March 2016

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What the Rabbis Heard: Deafness in the Mishnah
Authors: Gracer Bonnie
Published: March 2016

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Globalization and ICF Eugenics: Historical coincidence or connection? The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
Authors: Barile Maria
Published: March 2016

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Announcements
Authors: Editor The
Published: March 2016

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Guest Editor's Introduction
Authors: Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

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Disability Culture meets Euthanasia Culture: Lessons from my cat
Authors: Andre Linda
Published: March 2016

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An Analysis of the Dissimilar Coverage of the 2002 Olympics and Paralympics: Frenzied Pack Journalism versus the Empty Press Room
Authors: Golden Anne
Published: March 2016

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In search of a paradigm shift: What disability studies can contribute to school psychology
Authors: Roach Andrew
Published: March 2016

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The Treatment of Disability in 19th and Early 20th Century Children's Literature
Authors: Dowker Ann
Published: March 2016

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What disability studies can do for children's literature
Authors: Saunders Kathy
Published: March 2016

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A Little Help From My Friends
Authors: Sanders John
Published: March 2016

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Contrived or inspired: Ability/disability in the children's picture book
Authors: Worotynec Z. Sonia
Published: March 2016

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News and Notes
Authors: Editors The
Published: March 2016

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The Effects of Survey Nonresponse and Proxy Response on Measures of Employment for Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Hendershot Gerry E.
Published: March 2016

If many people do not respond to surveys, and those who do not respond are different from those who do, then survey estimates may be biased. This study examines potential bias in employment statistics for persons with disabilities arising from differences in survey response patterns between persons with and without disabilities. Several types of response rate are considered: contact, cooperation, and self-response (versus proxy response). Also, several types of disability are considered: mobility, mental, seeing, hearing, and MR/DD/LD. Data are from the National Health Interview Surveys of 1994 and 1995, including the National Health Interview Survey on Disability, Phases1 and 2. Based on evidence of this study, there is little reason to believe that household survey-based employment statistics for persons with disabilities are significantly biased by nonresponse or proxy response of respondents with disabilities.
The Tom Whittaker Story: One Step at a Time - The Disabled Summit of Mt. Everest (video)
Authors: Greenidge-Copprue Delano
Published: March 2016

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Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
Authors: O'Day Bonnie
Published: March 2016

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Childhood Disability and Ability: (Dis)ableist Geographies of Mainstream Primary Schools
Authors: Holt Louise
Published: March 2016

The ideological and material location of disabled children's school education has shifted in many nations, in light of recent international initiatives, such as the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994). Within the context of the United Kingdom (U.K.), children with mind-body differences are increasingly educated within mainstream schools (Special Educational Needs and Disability Act, DfES, 2001a). These changes have led to a spatial convergence of the "special" and "general" education institutions. In this paper, empirical findings are presented from a qualitative study of two "physically inclusive" mainstream primary schools. It is shown that the education institution is underpinned by normative assumptions of "appropriate" childhood development, whereby childhood is viewed as a period of preparation for "productive", conforming adulthood. Such norms are (re)produced through the everyday spaces of the school. Children who do not concur with these expectations are frequently "Othered". Importantly, this paper demonstrates that these norms of childhood development are socio-spatial constructions, which vary between schools. Consequently, children with similar mind-body characteristics are differently diagnosed as (dis)abled within the two schools. These findings challenge biologically reductionist understandings of "disabled" and "non-disabled" identities; stressing that space is integral to which children are diagnosed as "disabled".
Income Assistance (the ODSP) and Disabled Women in Ontario, Canada: Limited Program Information, Restrictive Incomes and the Impacts Upon Socio-Spatial Life
Authors: Crooks Valorie A.
Published: March 2016

Women who live with an illness or impairment are an extremely marginalized and impoverished group of citizens in the province of Ontario, Canada. All too often they lack the resources that would enable them to improve their everyday lives such as employment or simply higher amounts of income assistance. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate some of the complex ways in which one's status as both an income assistance recipient and as a woman living with an illness or impairment that results in disability impacts upon everyday life. In this paper I focus specifically on experiential evidence shared during in-depth interviews conducted with 10 women receiving Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) support residing throughout the province of Ontario, Canada. I show how both the restrictive amounts of monies afforded to recipients and the limited amounts of information shared with them about key ODSP aspects such as transportation reimbursements significantly impact upon the women's abilities to move around in everyday society and space, which in turn imposes limitations on both their social and spatial lives.
Independent Living and Self-Determination of Women with Physical Disabilities in Bandung, Indonesia
Authors: Komardjaja Inge
Published: March 2016

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I've Never Seen My Child
Authors: Birbiglia Lucy
Published: March 2016

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Make Them Go Away
Authors: Haller Beth
Published: March 2016

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The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism
Authors: Osteen Mark
Published: March 2016

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Deaf Culture: A to Z
Authors: Guttman Miriam
Published: March 2016

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The Treasure on Gold Street: A Neighborhood Story in English and Spanish
Authors: Jackson James T.
Published: March 2016

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News and Notes
Authors: Young Patricia
Published: March 2016

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Social Support and Social Network Mobilization in Older African American Women who Have Experienced Strokes
Authors: Magasi Susan
Published: March 2016

Contemporary studies of social support have been criticized by disability studies scholars for portraying disabled women as passive recipients of care and support. This portrayal fails to recognize disabled women's strengths and contributions to their social networks. This qualitative study sought to gain a nuanced understanding of the processes of social support network mobilization used by a group of eight older African American women who recently had strokes. Research methods included in-depth thematic interviews and the construction of social network maps. Findings indicate the conventional categories of social support fail to capture the complexity of older disabled African American women's experiences. An alternative framework for understanding social support is presented that incorporates personal strengths and socio-political barriers.
Disability Studies in the Belly of the Beast
Authors: Block Pamela
Published: March 2016

This article contains information on how to develop DS activities on the university level with particular attention to teaching DS in the health sciences. The author discusses: (1) creating an on-campus DS community through interdisciplinary discussion groups for faculty and staff; (2) navigating the course approval process; (3) building course content; (4) teaching and grading strategies, and; (5) developing an undergraduate DS concentration as part of a bachelor's degree in health science.
Redefining Disability to Promote Equality: The Role of Disability Studies in Educating Occupational Therapists
Authors: Wright Beth Ann
Published: March 2016

Disability Studies (DS) can retain its integrity and potentially expand its role in progressive occupational therapy (OT) programs. The leaders of the OT profession are endorsing a broader view of disability as a universal human condition consistent with the World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) instrument. This article examines the role Disability Studies might play in the education of OT's. First, preeminent scholars in the field of OT endorse the development of the WHO's ICF instrument. Second, allied Health Professions, such as OT, who embrace the use of the ICF instrument help preserve, rather than destroy the fundamental framework of disability studies as well as the medical model. Third, both OT and DS can examine external environmental factors, such as the law, as relevant contextual factors to improve the health status of individuals with disabilities under the WHO's ICF instrument.
A Slowly Evolving Paradigm of Disability in Public Health Education
Authors: Hayward Katharine
Published: March 2016

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Stigma Busters in Their Own Voice
Authors: Molta Victoria
Published: March 2016

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The Cancer Party
Authors: Dalton T.K.
Published: March 2016

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Window Offices
Authors: Spratt Adrian
Published: March 2016

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Reality
Authors: Birbiglia Lucy
Published: March 2016

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The Things I Forget
Authors: Wolfe Kathi
Published: March 2016

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Refrigerator Mother
Authors: Kriske Anke
Published: March 2016

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The Unfit: A history of a bad idea
Authors: LeBesco Kathleen
Published: March 2016

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Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood
Authors: Cardinale Cara L.
Published: March 2016

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Sweet Bells Jangled: Laura Redden Searing, A Deaf Poet Restored
Authors: Rich Rita
Published: March 2016

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Integrated Education in India: Challenges and Prospects
Authors: Sharma Umesh , Deppeler Joanne
Published: March 2016

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Out of the Darkness: Examining the Rhetoric of Blindness in the Gospel of John
Authors: Koosed Jennifer , Schumm Darla
Published: March 2016

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Disability and Nutrition Therapy: Governmental Communication in the Information Age
Authors: Baker Dana Lee , Meers Angela Marie
Published: March 2016

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One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Authors: Etter William
Published: March 2016

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Voices in Disability and Spirituality from the Land Down Under: Outback to Outfront
Authors: Dolmage Jay
Published: March 2016

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Garden State (film)
Authors: Hayward Sally
Published: March 2016

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Understanding Educator Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Inclusive Education
Authors: Subban Pearl , Sharma Umesh
Published: March 2016

This paper presents the findings of an empirical study to investigate the attitudes of regular education teachers toward the implementation of inclusive education. The cited study was part of a two-pronged research inquiry which investigated teachers attitudes toward, and their concerns about inclusive education. This discourse was based on semi-structured interviews, conducted with mainstream teachers in state schools in Victoria, Australia. The results imply that Victorian teachers are in the main positively inclined towards the philosophy of inclusive education, perceiving the process as beneficial to all participants within the inclusive setting. However, they remain cautious about the inclusion of students with more severe disabilities.
Unmanly Professional Athletes: Disability and Masculinity in the United States, 1888-1908
Authors: Bionaz Robert E.
Published: March 2016

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Guest Editors' Introduction
Authors: Goggin Gerard , Newell Christopher
Published: March 2016

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How to Make Technology Work: A Study of Best Practices in United States Electronic and Information Technology Companies
Authors: Tusler Anthony
Published: March 2016

This article documents the best practices in electronic and information technology (E&IT) companies to make their goods and services accessible to people with disabilities. The results of structured interviews were analyzed and grouped by themes. The research presents discrete best practices that emerged including the need for accessibility champions, the importance of valuing disability, and the value in transforming the company. A case study of AOL's success is included along with recommendations for people with disabilities who wish to advocate for more accessibility to E&IT products. Contributing to the bottom line was found to be the primary motivator for companies to include and maintain accessibility. This article is an abbreviation of the World Institute on Disability publication How to Create Disability Access to Technology.
Building Social Capital: A Study of the Online Disability Community
Authors: Huang Jin , Guo Baorong
Published: March 2016

There are numerous studies about the relationship between technological aspects of the Internet and disability. However, little is known about the social impact of the Internet on the disability community. Using the theory of social capital, this study aims to understand social aspects of the Internet, specifically its impact on the network building of people with disabilities. Based on survey data from a sample of 122 individuals with disabilities across China, the current study explores the characteristics of social capital in the online disability community and effects of Internet use on building social capital. The findings suggest that the online disability community has high levels of social capital and that greater involvement in online activities can generate higher levels of social capital for people with disabilities.
Surviving in Silence: A Deaf Boy in the Holocaust; The Harry I. Dunai Story
Authors: Schlossberg R. Dan
Published: March 2016

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Gendering Disability
Authors: Mollow Anna
Published: March 2016

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My Mother's Hip: Lessons from the World of Eldercare
Authors: Tabbarah Melissa
Published: March 2016

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Oedipus Borealis: The Aberrant Body in Old Icelandic Myth and Saga
Authors: Passanante Julie
Published: March 2016

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Alone in the Mainstream: A Deaf Woman Remembers Public School
Authors: Rossetti Zach
Published: March 2016

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Delivery
Authors: Cheu Johnson
Published: March 2016

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(Dis)Embodied Form: Issues of Disabled Women.
Authors: Erevelles Nirmala
Published: March 2016

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"There Is No Treatment Here:" Disability and Health Needs In A State Prison System
Authors: Smith Phil
Published: March 2016

To understand the disability and health needs of prisoners, the Vermont Prisoner's Health Coalition sent out a survey to every adult prisoner within the Vermont correctional system in the fall of 2002. Open-ended questions centered on disability, health care, and treatment received by inmates within the Vermont correctional system. 190 surveys were returned, and narrative responses were analyzed using qualitative research methods. Most respondents reported having some kind of disability, including learning, developmental, or psychiatric disabilities. Treatment and accommodations were described as inadequate or non-existent, and long wait times for services were typical. The importance of listening to the voices of prisoners regarding accommodations and supports for their disabilities, and perceptions of the quality of their health care, is emphasized.
Equal Opportunity to Meaningful Competitions: Disability Rights and Justice in Sports
Authors: LaVaque-Manty Mika
Published: March 2016

This paper explores the questions of equality and social justice for people with disabilities in sports and, by extension, other civil societal practices that involve the pursuit of excellence. I argue that such practices come within the purview of justice depending on the interplay between political activism, institutionalized anti-discrimination statutes such as the ADA, and the internal norms of a practice. There are many ways to interpret the ADA, and a successful argument for a right to a pursuit of excellence requires that the ADA be understood as an anticaste principle. That interpretation allows me to show how even voluntary, ostensibly apolitical social practices can stigmatize groups of people — people with disabilities, for example — and how such practices can be refigured to bring about social justice.
Guest Editor's Introduction
Authors: Chemers Michael
Published: March 2016

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Exploitations of Embodiment: Born Freak and the Academic Bally Plank
Authors: Mitchell David , Snyder Sharon
Published: March 2016

Freak show scholars must openly wrestle with the degree to which they imagine that one can learn something about disability by analyzing the social relations that constitute freak show exhibition. This is partially a question of the degree to which one believes that scholarly commentary can effectively divest interest in freak spectacle from an exploitative relationship. Additionally, one's relationship to this issue tends to rely upon whether the scholarly approach applied theorizes disability as unbridgeable difference from normativity or artificial augmentation of mere human variation into monstrous other. In order to probe this arena of thought — and reflect critically on the utility of the freak show for understanding the contemporary predicament of disabled people — we pursue an extended close reading of Mat Fraser's documentary film, Born Freak (2002), as a productive interrogation of extant critical traditions on the freak show. Born Freak literally takes up applications of various modes of freak show address as if it seeks to try on each one and assess its utility. The film employs its visual terrain as if it were an experimental lab where one can interrogate the pragmatic utility of each paradigm. Interestingly, Born Freak helps to expose the limits of current theories through Fraser's investigation into the experience of a contemporary disabled actor-turned-freak.
Freakery and Prosthetic Actuality in Joseph Chaikin's Body Pieces
Authors: Davies Telory W.
Published: March 2016

Whereas his early exploration of disability issues addressed impairment as a point of departure for non-standard theater, Joseph Chaikin's Body Pieces in 2001 made disability the standard frame of reference. In this workshop production, amputee characters and actors mitigated audience alienation and fear of dismemberment by attaching and detaching their prosthetic limbs both on and off the stage. Chaikin combined humor with actuality in these moments, inviting spectators to contemplate their relation to disability. In his post-stroke aphasic direction of this piece, Chaikin necessitated a similar reconception of mental wholeness. His disabled actors provided a physical model for reassessing ability where cognitive and physical fragmentation replaced wholeness as new actualities: they exposed and detached their prosthetic legs in order to revise audience perceptions of fragmented bodies. Chaikin and his actors used comedy to familiarize the unfamiliarity of amputee bodies and to critique non-disabled responses to disabled difference. Appropriating the traditional freak show premise, Chaikin and disabled playwright John Belluso forged a contemporary meditation on freakery that played with and against sideshow stereotypes.
Midget Cities: Utopia, Utopianism and the Vor-schein of the 'Freak' Show.
Authors: Howells Richard , Chemers Michael
Published: March 2016

In the early half of the 20th century, World's Fairs sprang up periodically across the United States. One corollary to these colossal exhibitions was the emergence of the phenomenon of "Midget Cities," sites connected to the Fairs where professional performers of short stature would gather to work, and live, in communities constructed to be miniature representations of "normal" scale buildings. This article is an historical account of the three largest Midget Cities of the United States of the 20th century. We then proceed with a theoretical analysis of both our specific case-studies and of the freak show in general, guided by the German Utopian thinker Ernst Bloch. Along the way we consider the advantages of Midget Cities to their residents and performers, together with the utility (or lack thereof) of recovering the occult history of the "freak show" to disabled people in general. We conclude by contemplating the usefulness of a Utopian analysis of "freakery" to the community, inclusive of but not limited to, both disability and its study.
Review of Tod Browning's FREAKS on DVD
Authors: Karamanos Hioni
Published: March 2016

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Making Both Ends Meet
Authors: Anderberg Peter
Published: March 2016

The purpose of this article is to launch a new conceptual design tool in rehabilitation engineering, technology, and Disability Studies, useful both as guidance and help for people with disabilities in analyzing their own functional aids, and as inspiration and meta-guidelines for designers. It is non-discriminating and classification-free and differs from a mere classification system like the International Classification of Functioning (ICF). The origin of the tool is twofold: experiences of my own disability and of research in rehabilitation engineering.
Technologies, Deafness, and Critical Compromise
Authors: Guillemin Marilys , Gillam Lynn , Brookes Alison
Published: March 2016

The original aim in this research was to explore the responses of people who identify as Deaf, deaf, or hearing impaired to genetic testing for deafness. Nineteen in-depth interviews were undertaken with Deaf and deaf/hearing impaired people from South East Australia. Analysis showed that there appeared to be a relative acceptance of genetic testing, and a general opposition to cochlear implants. However, further consideration of these responses suggested that there was neither outright rejection or complete acceptance, but rather, a critical engagement and pragmatic reconciliation with these technologies, which we characterize as critical compromise. Critical compromise is a useful concept in understanding how people understand and interact with technologies and the effects of these practices and interactions.
Selling the Cochlear Implant
Authors: Kumari Campbell Fiona A.
Published: March 2016

This article explores the power of rhetoric and representation, of marked bodies known to the hearing world as "the Deaf," and also an artifact branded as a cochlear implant (hereafter referred to as CI). The CI invokes a story of culture wars ostensibly about ontological disputation. The case study examines the conditions of the implant's production, the kinds of commitments invoked in product development and the processes of bandwagoning that led to the creation of a cochlear implant black box. Argument concludes that the normalization of the cochlear implant is due not just to the obtainment of inter-organizational networks of "relevant" social groups but was made possible through a deferment to negative ontologies of Deafness and the deployment of the inherent preferability of "hearing" as social capital. The study concludes that technologies of cochlear implantation, by being promoted as a technology of "treatability" in effect produce agreements and foreclose discussion on the contestability of the concepts of deafness, hearingness, aberrancy and normalcy.
Ray (film)
Authors: Gosselink Carol
Published: March 2016

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Genetics, Disability and Deafness
Authors: Power Des
Published: March 2016

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Assisted Living (film)
Authors: Chang Robert
Published: March 2016

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Laughing Allegra: The inspiring story of a mother's struggle and triumph raising a daughter with learning disabilities
Authors: Worley David
Published: March 2016

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From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South
Authors: Foley Patricia
Published: March 2016

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Using Survey Data to Study Disability, Vol. 3
Authors: Long Linda
Published: March 2016

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Misfit as Metaphor: The Question and the Contradiction of Lupus in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Authors: Horner Carl S. , Barnes Elena V.
Published: March 2016

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"What seems to be the problem?" A myriad of terms for mental health and behavioral concerns
Authors: O'Reilly Michelle
Published: March 2016

The fundamental philosophy of family therapy is to "treat" the family as a unit. It sets out to provide assistance to families with troubles in a way to make them work together in a more functional way. Parents of children with difficulties however, do not necessarily consider the underlying principles of the discipline and seem less concerned with institutional practices. It is salient in family therapy for parents (of disabled children) to locate their child(ren) as the central problem and as the reason for their acquisition of therapy. Using family therapy data, I demonstrate how they construct their "problem child" in interrelated ways, in a way that deviates accountability from them as parents but more importantly works as a display of misunderstandings of mental health issues and concepts. This has wider implications for therapeutic practice and agency responsibility, and further implications for a need for consistent terminology and education for parents.
Examining the Role of Disability in Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small
Authors: Church David
Published: March 2016

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In The Shadow of the Freakshow: The Impact of Freakshow Tradition on the Display and Understanding of Disability History in Museums
Authors: Sandell Richard , Delin Annie , Dodd Jocelyn , Gay Jackie
Published: March 2016

In 2003 a research project was undertaken by The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Buried in the Footnotes set out to address a deficit in knowledge and understanding around the hidden history of disability by investigating museum collections and displays in the UK to identify evidence attesting to the lives of disabled people. The project further aimed to identify and examine curatorial practices and other factors, which may have contributed to historical and contemporary under- or mis-representation of disabled people, including through the examination of how information associated with disabled people comes to be changed, distorted or lost. In this essay, the research team presents elements of the research findings relating to freak material, artifacts and records. We report on the material identified, examine the responses and attitudes of museum curators to holding and showing such material, and consider the impact of curatorial perspectives on the record and display of disability history.
Caliban and Coney Island: Spanish American Narratives of Corporeal Difference and Performance
Authors: Antebi Susan
Published: March 2016

In recent years, Disability Studies scholarship in the humanities has frequently focused on histories of the freak show and on theoretical problems stemming from the limits of cultural discourse with respect to the materiality of the body. In contrast, corporeality and difference in the context of recent work in Spanish American Cultural Studies and related disciplines often appear as metaphorical constructs, grounded in the trope of monstrosity as nexus of identity and alterity. Through readings of José Martí's and José Juan Tablada's literary encounters with Coney Island, this article proposes the critical productivity of intersecting models of Spanish American literary discourse and live corporeal spectacle.
Deconstructing Disability: Three Episodes of South Park
Authors: Reid-Hresko John Paul , Reid D. Kim
Published: March 2016

Through close textual analysis, we examine three South Park episodes to elucidate how they problematize stigmatizing representations and disabling attitudes toward people with physical and cognitive impairments. Using outrageous humor and apparently harmless animation that centers children, the creators expose inconsistencies and injustices typical of the public's responses to disability by contrasting the humanity of disabled persons with cultural assumptions and constructions about them. South Park highlights the pity, charity, and symbolic trope discourses that prevail in mainstream U. S. culture. If the show's general audience can overcome the initial shock value of the language used and positions taken, South Park challenges taken-for-granted and often destructive ways we relate to our environment and our neighbors. In an atmosphere of political correctness that buries representations of difference, South Park stands out as an original, critical voice prompting its audience to question and rethink how our society constructs the social identities of disabled people.
Conjoined Twins: An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia
Authors: Ferzacca Steve
Published: March 2016

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One Soldier's Story
Authors: Kinder John M.
Published: March 2016

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Many Ways to be Deaf
Authors: Weiner Stephen
Published: March 2016

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The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of Government's Protection of the Handicapped
Authors: Prescott Heather Munro
Published: March 2016

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The Disability Pendulum: The First Decade of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disabling America: The Unintended Consequences of Government's Protection of the Handicapped
Authors: Blaser Arthur
Published: March 2016

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Recovery and Loss: Politics of the Disabled Male Chicano
Authors: Perkins Emily Caroline
Published: March 2016

In his ethnic narrative The Rain God, Arturo Islas explores the Mexican-American codes of conduct that are designed to punish those who transgress traditional boundaries. In particular, he examines the effects of transgressing bodily norms. He gives his character Miguel Chico experiences with and a perception of disability that mirror his own, and, in doing so, he examines the role of the disabled male in the Chicano culture. The chronically disabled figure -- a character with polio and, later, a colostomy -- is portrayed as not only a figure moving between the world of the healthy and the world of the sick, but is characterized as what Gloria Anzaldua calls a "half dead" figure, moving between the world of living and the world of the dead. With these binaries, Islas shows how the Chicano culture misrepresents the disabled male who cannot fit neatly into categories of healthy and unhealthy, male and female, and acceptable and unacceptable. Thus, he uses disability to explode traditional cultural categories. While he proves that disability is more complicated than his culture will admit, he acknowledges the power of stereotypes and their ability to alter one's course in life. Ultimately, Islas argues that disability has the capacity to rob the Chicano male of his voice and his agency within the Chicano culture as well as the disabled culture. The Rain God is a reclamation project designed to recover that voice. Through various methods, Miguel Chico indeed recovers his voice, but his methods of recovery trap him in a state of psychological wounding and healing, proving the inescapable oppression the disabled male Chicano must endure.
Reporting Abuse: A Study of the Perceptions of People with Disabilities (PWD) Regarding Abuse Directed at PWD
Authors: West Bernadette , Gandhi Sampada
Published: March 2016

Critical theory is useful in understanding the position of people with disabilities (PWD) in society. This theoretical framework suggests that there is an unequal distribution of resources and power in society, which produces both conflict between groups as a consequence of this inequality and marginalization of those without resources and power. Evidence of the marginalization of PWD can be found in research that suggests that PWD experience abuse at rates 4 to 10 times higher than the rate for people without disabilities. The rate of abuse directed at people with disabilities (PWD) is often hard to document for many reasons including the fact that historically data on disability status has not been collected in databases tracking crime and victimization. Furthermore, the media often fails to cover these situations, keeping the problem hidden from view. Another factor in the hidden nature of abuse is that research suggests PWD often cannot or chose not to report abuse and when they do report, their claims are often disregarded. The goal of our research was to develop a better understanding of abuse directed at PWD–from their perspective. In focus groups with PWD, we explored the question of whether PWD report abuse, and if so to whom do they report and what was the outcome. Then using content analysis and Atlas.ti software we coded transcripts of the focus groups for major themes. The comments of participants suggest that PWD do report abuse–primarily to family, police and agency staff. However, they also say these social support systems often do not believe them or discount their reports because of their disability status. When they chose not to report, it is because they feel they will not be believed, they are fearful of further reprisal or losing a needed caretaker, and consequently are willing to tolerate a certain level of abuse. While participants often described some kind of follow-up to their reports, few were certain what happened eventually to the abuser. The findings suggest the importance of including the perspective of affected populations in attempts to understand an issue such as abuse. They also suggest the need for training programs that teach PWD about their rights and strengthens their skills as self-advocates, as well as training efforts directed at caregivers and the police.
Guest Editor's Introduction
Authors: Blanck Peter , Schartz Helen A.
Published: March 2016

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Role of the Tax Code in Asset Development for People with Disabilities
Authors: Mendelsohn Steven
Published: March 2016

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Tax Credits and Asset Accumulation: Findings from the 2004 N.O.D./Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities
Authors: Schmeling James , Schartz Helen A. , Morris Michael , Blanck Peter
Published: March 2016

This article describes findings pertaining to the economic independence of people with disabilities from the 2004 National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)/Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities. The 2004 N.O.D./Harris Survey is based on information from a random sampling of 1038 adults with disabilities and 988 adults without disabilities. Economic independence is central to improving the quality of life for persons living with disabilities. It involves being employed, leveraging tax incentives, the ability to accumulate assets, including through use of financial institutions, and opportunities for home ownership. Major findings include that sampled people with and without disabilities own homes at similar rates overall, that people with disabilities are more likely to be asset poor, have fewer relationships with financial institutions, have lower rates of usage of savings accounts, have lower rates of ownership of stocks and bonds, have lower rates of holding IDAs, and make less use of the home mortgage tax deduction. The importance of asset accumulation and home ownership strategies are discussed as a means to improve economic independence, self-determination, and inclusion into society of persons with disabilities.
Regulating bodies: The discursive production of disability and disability research in the legal setting
Authors: Morton Missy
Published: March 2016

This article reports a qualitative study of six court cases that consider the admissibility of facilitated communication (FC) as evidence. While this is not a study of the legal system per se, I examine this system as a site where meanings of science, research, ability, and disability are contested. In order for a set of truths and practices to operate as legitimate in a particular institution, there is also a wider discourse and set of associated practices within which the received truths and practices of that institution come to be accepted. This study examines the discursive production of disability and disability research in the legal setting as the participants (investigators, attorneys, judges) sought to make sense of FC.
Classical Music, Disability, and Film: A Pedagogical Script
Authors: Lubet Alex , Hofmann Ingrid C.
Published: March 2016

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What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Authors: Braziel Jana Evans
Published: March 2016

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Mama Wahunzi
Authors: Croissant Jennifer L.
Published: March 2016

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Polio— An American Story
Authors: Daniels Roger
Published: March 2016

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Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities
Authors: Ossian Lisa
Published: March 2016

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Disability-Competent Health Systems
Authors: Palsbo Susan E. , Kailes June Isaacson
Published: March 2016

In July 2005, the United States Surgeon General issued a national Call for Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities. This article offers one response. Drawing on the best practices of consumer-driven health programs for people with disabilities, we offer a Disability-Competent Health System model. The model integrates health and social services to maximize opportunities for independent living and person-centered care. This approach is an opportunity for the independent living movement to address health-related issues without subscribing to the medical model.
Being bent over backward: A mother and teacher educator challenges the positioning of her daughter with disabilities
Authors: O'Brien Leigh M.
Published: March 2016

In this paper I draw on my life story as a teacher educator and the mother of a daughter with disabilities to trouble the identity that positions and labels her as, first and foremost in U.S. school settings, a "child with special needs." Drawing on a brief snippet from our profoundly interrelated lives (Hillyer, 1993), I argue that educators must reconsider the positioning of children who differ from the "norm," and stop labeling, and hence limiting, children. I end with recommendations for personal, educational, and societal policies and practices that would be less painful and limiting, and more inclusive, supportive, and ultimately democratic.
Editors' Introduction IDEA at 30: Looking Back, Facing Forward — A Disability Studies Perspective
Authors: Valle Jan W. , Connor David J. , Reid D. Kim
Published: March 2016

This special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly is based upon four papers presented at the 5th annual National Conference on Disability Studies in Education (2005) sponsored by Teachers College, Columbia University. The four papers address the 2005 conference theme: The 30th anniversary of IDEA and Its impact on American Schools and Society. In addition, the issue includes eight responses from scholars invited to comment upon these four cornerstone papers. Thus, our introduction to the special issue is divided into four sections that tie together ideas presented in the four major papers and eight responses: (1) IDEA and public opinion (2) IDEA and the institutionalization of ableism and racism; (3) IDEA enactment and consequences; and (4) IDEA resistance and the countering of deficit-based assumptions of disability. We conclude with our reflection upon these ideas as well as a vision of disability studies in education for the next thirty years.
'Reining In' Special Education: Constructions of "Special Education" in New York Times Editorials, 1975-2004
Authors: Rice Nancy
Published: March 2016

The media claim to speak with authority on educational issues and thus play a major role in the construction of public messages about special education. Discursive constructions of "special education" portray the landscape of possibilities within which much of the public comes to understand what special education is, influencing their understanding and judgment of it. The purpose of this paper is to analyze public constructions of "special education" using editorials published in The New York Times from 1975-2004. Using critical discourse analysis, this paper reveals themes developed over time as well as the ways language is used to construct a particular view of "special education." Alternative discourses are suggested to counter the hegemonic presentations by the Times editors.
Reframing Special Education: Reclaiming Effective Education
Authors: Smith Robin M.
Published: March 2016

Rice's analysis of New York Times editorials illustrates ways in which disability is constructed to promote public policy that maintains the status quo. I propose that George Lakoff's work can be useful in understanding how power structures operate, specifically in regard to disability issues. Lakoff suggests that language frames the debate differently for those who value a "nurturant parent model" than for those who value a "strict father model" for family and national governance. I conclude by explicating how an application of Lakoff's "language frames" to disability discourse might help progressives identify and recapture the public discourse on education and disability.
Voices in the Struggle: In Response to "'Reining In' Special Education"
Authors: Ferri Beth A.
Published: March 2016

In responding to "'Reining In' Special Education," I explore some of the taken-for-granted assumptions about students with disabilities in The New York Times editorials about special education that Nancy Rice critiques in this issue. Next, I attend to other voices in the editorial page in the form of letters to the editor and editorial pages from the Black press as examples of alternative and competing discourses. Because I contend that editorials are designed not just to persuade, but also to provoke response, I examine ways that these voices talk back and talk with dominant ideologies about special education. And, finally, I examine what these texts are trying to tell readers not only to believe, but also what to do about the so-called "problem" of special education.
Response to Beratan: Creating Equity through Challenging Ableism and Racism in IDEA
Authors: Peters Susan
Published: March 2016

This response supports the interactive notions of ableism and racism aptly deconstructed by Beratan, and extends the notions through examining the premises of distributive justice inherent in market-driven hegemonic discourses. However, deconstruction does not carry the argument far enough. Strategies and notions for reconstruction need articulation in order to offer a way forward. Lessons learned from Corey H. et. al. v Chicago Board of Education and responses to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) provide instructive strategies and tactics necessary for redressing institutional inequity.
Deciding Who Gets to Decide
Authors: Gabel Susan
Published: March 2016

On the surface, Rosen's study would appear to be the story of the successful advocacy for Deaf culture and language in schools. In this response, I read the subtext of Rosen's article, in which troubling questions arise about systemic structures that work against full access to decision making, the dilemma of diversity, the problem of participatory parity for disabled students who have been shut out of the democratic process, and the question of who gets to decide which arguments about education prevail.
The Again Familiar Trope: A Response to Infusing Disability in the Curriculum: The Case of Saramago's Blindness
Authors: Ware Linda
Published: March 2016

"Infusing Disability in the Curriculum: The Case of Saramago's Blindness" aims for a conversation with readers about the possible uses for this parable as a vehicle to promote a more critical discussion of disability in college coursework. Central to the teaching of this novel from a disability studies perspective is the imperative to trouble the "othering" of blindness and by default, the "othering" of disability reified by this novel. In this response I consider the challenges for teacher educators who likewise aim to structure more critical discussion of disability in teacher preparation courses.
Guest Editor's Introduction
Authors: K Swantje , Waldschmidt Anne
Published: March 2016

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