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An Interview with David Onley: On Leadership, Inclusivity, and Re-conceptualization
Authors: Pletsch Carolyn 
Published: March 2016

David Onley is the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. As the first Lieutenant Governor with a visible disability, Onley has committed to using his position to bring attention to issues that affect Ontario's 1.8 million people with disabilities, including, for example, accessibility and obstacles to employment and housing. As such, he has been a significant and effective leader in Ontario's efforts to raise the visibility and to reduce the stigma of disability by speaking regularly and consistently about a positive and more accurate rendering: that disabled workers are assets and contribute significantly to their workplaces, as well as to the larger communities of which they are a part. In this interview Onley reflects on his own workplace experiences, research that would add to the argument for greater inclusivity, and the challenges that lie ahead for those that would make Ontario's workplaces more accessible. Key Words: leadership, inclusivity, workplace accessibility, productivity, re-conceptualization
Disabled Capitalists: Exploring the Intersections of Disability and Identity Formation in the World of Work
Authors: Galer Dustin 
Published: March 2016

Many people with disabilities share the mainstream ethos that participation in the competitive workforce constitutes a primary feature of their identity. While unpaid work may fulfill the desire to be productive and provide a sense of purpose and contribution, the cultural imperative to achieve personal autonomy partly through material independence situates paid employment at the centre of personal identity formation. While disability activists struggle to carve out an empowered collective identity instilled with rights-based protections, many people with disabilities identify with the liberal individualism upon which participation in the capitalist labour market is largely based. Individuals with disabilities seek not simply to shrug off an identity defined by burden, but to claim an identity marked by self-fulfillment. Within the world of paid work, then, tension and compatibility co-exist regarding the nature and value of identity development for people with disabilities. Keywords: disability, work, employment, identity, identity politics, disability activism
Improving Communication Across the Independent Living/Mental Health Divide
Authors: Baron Richard C. , Dezenski Linda , Rogers Joseph 
Published: March 2016

Keywords: Centers for Independent Living, mental health, psychiatric disabilities, physical disabilities, inter-system collaborationCenters for Independent Living (CILs) increasingly recognize the importance of providing effective services and supports to individuals with psychiatric disabilities. While those with psychiatric disabilities turn to their local CIL for the same types of assistance as do others, serving people with psychiatric disabilities may suggest the need for CIL staff to communicate and/or collaborate with their local mental health (MH) authorities, mental health clinical and rehabilitation providers, and/or mental health peer-run service programs. Productive contact across the CIL / MH divide, however, is often difficult, reflecting both mutual unfamiliarity and long-standing tensions. CILs are often unsure how much their staff should know about mental illness (that is, about symptoms, diagnosis, medication, treatment, and rehabilitation alternatives), how closely they should work with traditional mental health treatment and rehabilitation providers, and how to connect to the expanding network of mental health peer-run services and supports. This article reviews these questions in the context of the tension between the mental health and independent living paradigms, and provides initial recommendations for improved communication and collaboration across the IL/MH divide.
Interpretation Makes It Real: Disability and Subjectivity in Three Women Artists' Biopics
Authors: Nyman Micki 
Published: March 2016

In her (2005) added commentary to the re-released biopic An Angel at My Table (1990), director Jane Campion agrees with the subject of her film, New Zealand-born author Janet Frame (1924-2004), that "almost everything we do is imagined; it's only your interpretation that makes it real." Campion's subjective biopic was among the first to experiment with cinematic technique in order to convey the lived experience of disability, a category that now includes Richard Eyre's Iris (2001) and Steven Shainberg's Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006). All share a similar tendency to blend subjectivity, memory, and disability through the eyes of their film's respective protagonists. This essay explores the ways in which these films adapted from autobiography, biography, and memoir use cinematic technique to suggest that while subjectivity is plural and fluid, it must nonetheless ultimately contest a delimiting matrix of social oppression.Key Words: disability, subjectivity, women, artists, biopics, film, adaptations, difference, impairment, aesthetics, biography, memory, gender, Bergson, Deleuze, Grosz
Segregating the Chickenheads: Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Post/humanism of the American Eugenics Movement
Authors: Pottle Adam 
Published: March 2016

This essay reads Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? as a critique of the American eugenics movement. Replete with historical allusions and satiric wordplay, Dick's novel condemns the eugenics movement as eliminating disability, diminishing human diversity, discouraging empathy, and ushering in harmful posthuman ideas before their time. Keywords:Eugenics; Philip K. Dick; America; Science fiction; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
"It's not like I have a disability or anything!" Perceptions of impairment and disability among rural, young people
Authors: Bourke Lisa , Waite Catherine 
Published: March 2016

Understandings of disability and impairment among the general public influence how people without disability interact with those with disability. This paper explored how disability and impairment are understood by young people living in six rural communities in southeast Australia, including the perspectives of those with and without a disability. Of the 172 rural young people surveyed, 6% self-identified as having a disability, 7% were categorised as ‘at risk’ of mental ill-health and almost half reported some type of impairment or health condition. Using various measures, young people’s responses reflected key discourses of disability, including dimensions of impairment, social judgement and limited function, and a blending of the medical and social models. These same young people separated the terms impairment and disability, embedding stigma in the latter. The study concluded that these rural communities need to reconstruct understandings of disability so as to support young people with disability and/or impairment.
Test Anxiety: Benign or Malignant for Students with Vision Impairment?
Authors: Datta Poulomee 
Published: March 2016

Test anxiety has been identified as a threat in evaluative situations and academic performance by sighted students. Students with vision impairment are no exception to it. This study investigated the test anxiety scores of the students with vision impairment in South Australia. It also provided insights into the reasons for high test anxiety in the participants studied. This study was divided into two Stages-1 and 2. The Spielberger’s Test Anxiety questionnaire was administered on students with vision impairment in Stage 1. Interviews were conducted in Stage 2 with participants with vision impairment, their parents and teachers. The Stage 1 results revealed that the majority of the adult females with vision impairment and all adult males with vision impairment obtained high test anxiety scores. The majority of the adolescent females and males with vision impairment were noted to have test anxiety scores in the high to moderate range. A great number of participants with vision impairment scored higher in the emotionality in comparison to the worry subscale of test anxiety. The high test anxiety scores are congruent with the interview responses obtained from the three groups of respondents. A number of factors have been identified as the major determinants of test anxiety in students with vision impairment.Keywords: test anxiety, participants with vision impairment, worry, emotionality, South Australia
The Georgian Dactyl Alphabet
Authors: Makharoblidze Tamar Shota 
Published: March 2016

In the Soviet period sign languages in this region were highly influenced by the Russian language and the old Georgian dactyl alphabet was totally based on the Russian one, with only a few additional specific letters. The idea of creating a new original Georgian dactyl alphabet came form the local community of deaf and hard of hearing people and I was honored to work together with these people on this project. The creation of a new original dactyl alphabet based on Georgian letters was a natural step for Georgia and consistent with the sign language nationalization developments in the post-Soviet linguistic space. This paper presents the results of our work: the new Georgian dactyl alphabet. This alphabet is one-handed with the dactyls which are easy to create and to move between. The method of processing is a mixed type and it is a letter-dactyl (non-syllabic) alphabet by the principle of marking. In the presented papers we also display the theoretical base and the main principles for the dactyl alphabets and the 10 rules of dactiling.
Research on Methods of "Touching the World" ―The Aim of the Exhibit Area of Tactile Learning in Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology
Authors: Hirose Kojiro 
Published: March 2016

The author acknowledges that blind and visually impaired people constitute only about one percent of annual visitors to his museum, but has nevertheless implemented tactile exhibits to enhance the learning and enjoyment of everyone. He describes tactile workshops he has developed to train visitors to get the most out of handling and exploring objects through touch. Key words: Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology, blind and visually impaired Japanese, tactile exhibits, universal design in museums.
Shared Visions: Reflections of a Blind Docent
Authors: Schmeidler Judith Kahn 
Published: March 2016

Can a blind person serve as a museum docent? This personal account proves that it is possible and rewarding. The author shares her experience of lost vision due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, and the challenges she meets in order to continue as a docent at a museum that she loves. Key words:Blind docent,Retinitis Pigmentosa, Jewish Museum
A Docent’s Perspective: From Tour Guide to Advisor
Authors: Wilburn Donnelly 
Published: March 2016

This is a personalaccount of a dedicated museum docent who lost her vision in 2007, but retainedher passion for art. For the past five years, she has been an advisor on theSeattle Art Museum’s docent committee for access. She discusses what a museumcan do to enable her to form a distinct mental image of an artwork and a deepconnection to the artist. Key words: Blind museum access, blindness, low-vision, Seattle Art Museum, verbal description of visual art, audio description
Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn
Authors: Cachia Amanda 
Published: March 2016

The author describes two exhibits: Blind at the Museum at the Berkeley Art Museum in 2005, and What Can a Body Do?, at the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College in 2012. She argues for inclusive design in the exhibits themselves, as well as what she calls the exhibit’s discursive elements--catalogues, docent tours, symposia, and websites--that not only extend the life of such exhibits but also expand access for attendees and others. Key words: Blind artists, inclusive design, accessible exhibit design, the discursive turn, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Canter Fitzgerald Gallery.
Into the White: Larry Eigner’s Meta-Physical Poetics
Authors: Lauro Sarah Juliet , Riordan Lindsay Waggoner 
Published: March 2016

Disabled poet Larry Eigner makes striking use of the space of the page to create poetry that operates in a visual as well as linguistic register. Many critics have read Eigner’s oeuvre in light of his physical condition, but no scholar has previously looked to the parallels between the Black Mountain artists’ experiments in abstraction and Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner’s work, though the same influences are clearly evident. Working collaboratively and interdisciplinarily, the authors combine their expertise in the disciplines of literature and art history, reading both the words on the page and the page as picture, in a manner that engages specifically with phenomenological philosophy, to explicate how these poems work on the body of the reader. Key words: embodiment, abstraction, poetics, typography, metaphysics, phenomenology
Stepping backwards with disability humor? The case of NY Gov. David Paterson’s representation on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Authors: Haller Beth , Becker Amy Bree 
Published: March 2016

In the modern era, discerning TV viewers know the shows that trade in cheap laughs by making fun of people with disabilities are not tapping into much creativity. So it was a surprise in 2008 when the highly regarded comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) stooped to that level by ridiculing the blind governor of New York, David Paterson, in a series of sketches lasting two years. This article analyzes the way humor narratives about a high-profile blind politician on television, like those depicted in the SNL skits, may have influenced larger cultural themes about blindness. Because the East Coast news media reported on the SNL skits every time an episode aired, this project undertook a textual analysis of all aspects of the controversy including the content of the SNL skits, the repeated responses from Gov. Paterson and the blindness community, and the news media framing of the SNL-Paterson skit story. This analysis examines the intertextuality of the event, revealing that the blindness community had a very different reading of the SNL skits, due to concerns about continuing media narratives that devalue and stereotype them. Keywords: blindness, disability humor, TV comedy shows, skit comedy, politicians
Illuminating the Vulnerability of Hegemonic Masculinity through a Performance Analysis of Physically Disabled Men’s Personal Narratives
Authors: Scott Julie-Ann 
Published: March 2016

This performance analysis traces the emergence of masculinity in the open-ended narratives of 14 men who self identify as “physically disabled.” The participants range in physical ability, age, relationship status, build, and socioeconomic status. They also range in their responses to the interaction of their ability and gender: mourning, resisting, accepting, and/or embracing their daily performances of physically disabled masculinity. Through bodies defined as the negation of ‘normal,’ they attend to and expose the nuances of the interacting cultural components of hegemonic masculinity that all human beings negotiate, interpret, create and re-create through our interactions. Their stories and insights offer opportunities for us to understand the impossibilities of ideal gender performance all humans co-imagine, reiterate, and pursue but can never realize. Keywords: Performance Analysis, Masculinity, Physical Disability, Personal Narrative
Combating Prejudice in the Workplace with Contact Theory: The Lived Experiences of Professionals with Disabilities
Authors: Harpur Paul David 
Published: March 2016

People with disabilities often confront barriers in exercising their right to work. Social model scholarship has recognised that attitude is a key factor in the disablement of people with impairments. This study reports on 28 semi-structured interviews with professionals with disabilities. Drawing from their lived experiences and roles in the disability rights movement, the professionals with disabilities interviewed in this study provide unique perspectives on the instances of attitudinal discrimination. The interviewees discuss the tactics they employ to reduce the negative impact of erroneous stereotypes and the successes of such tactics. Many of the tactics employed by interviewees reflect strategies discussed in contact theory scholarship. This study focuses upon contact theory and considers the similarities between this theory and the interventions of interviewees. Through positing interviewees' tactics in the literature this study is able to analyse possible positive and negative consequences of such interventions. Keywords: Contact theory, right to work, professionals with disabilities
Non-Combatants and Other Peace Activists: “Everyday” disability in a time of war
Authors: Andree Courtney 
Published: March 2016

While depictions of war-related disability would come to dominate the novels of male combatants in the decades following the First World War, congenital disability continued to be represented in the works of female novelists who were advocating peace. Even as the figure of the disabled veteran became hypervisible in Britain, civilians with disabilities frequently came to be overlooked where charitable aid, vocational training, and governmental assistance were concerned. We can chart a similar movement in the literature of the period, as representations of the war maimed came to eclipse "civilian" or congenital disability. In Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others (1916) and Rose Allatini’s Despised and Rejected (1918), characters with physical disabilities become outspoken activists for the anti-war movement as they openly combat the illogic of the war and continue to labor as artists and intellectuals. Besides making these disabled bodies visible again, Allatini and Macaulay draw attention to what fitness means in sexual, intellectual, and physical terms, and encourage readers to consider what it means for the “unfit” to reject a war that has already rejected them. Keywords: First World War; Congenital disability; War disability; Women writers
Exploring Issues of Disability in Children's Literature Discussions
Authors: Adomat Donna Sayers 
Published: March 2016

In this qualitative study, the author uses the theoretical lens of disability studies to examine how children in two multiage classrooms examine issues of disability through conversations during read-aloud and literature circle discussions. In this study, the author looks at how children build positive understandings of disability from children’s literature but also how societal attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes might play into their interpretations of literature. Student’s talk before, during, and after literature discussions was audio- and videorecorded. Several themes emerged from a discourse analysis of the transcriptions, including: defining disabilities, questioning and critiquing notions of normalcy; idealizing disabilities; identifying with characters; developing an advocacy stance; and using imagination to open up perspectives towards people in the real world. Through exploring characters in books, children not only learned about various disabilities, but they came to understand characters with disabilities as full and complex beings, similar in many ways to themselves. Keywords: children's literature, literature discussions, disability studies, elementary education, qualitative research
Sites of Normalcy: Understanding Online Education as Prosthetic Technology
Authors: Moeller Marie , Jung Julie 
Published: March 2016

Research on online education in relation to disability has, importantly, focused on issues of access and usability. This article seeks to complicate this research by examining the ways in which online education participates in an ideology of normalcy. Toward this end, we first describe online education as a site that promotes normalcy through its material practices of marginalization. We then extend this reading by analyzing how cultural narratives about online education function asdiscursive sites of normalcy by marking both online education and its users as less-than substitutes for the "real" versions. By constructing online education as a prosthetic technology, these narratives persuade marginalized bodies to recognize themselves as problems in need of solution, yet this reading itself becomes open to revision when we consider how the complexities of embodiment challenge an understanding of normalcy as a determinate discursive force.
Robots, Disability, and Good Human Life
Authors: Carnevale Antonio 
Published: March 2016

In this paper, I want to show the role that emerging robotic technologies could play in the future in daily life of disabled people. When I talk about disability, I mean any temporary or permanent limitation due to a chronic disease and deficit, as well as, socially disadvantaged conditions, which imply functional and emotional restrictions experienced at any age. All these limitations can be characterized by a specific mental and physical impairment or, more often, by a cluster of medical impairments and social barriers. To this end, the academic literature has generally differentiated between two disability models: 'medical' versus 'social'. The main attempt of this paper consists into showing how the development of robotic technologies — particularly in assistive and healthcare fields — could allow us to go beyond this outdated dichotomy, contributing to create new philosophical premises to rethink the universality of the human condition, that is, the sense of what we intend for 'good human life'.
Space and Affect: Using Heidegger to Re-interpret the Disability Experience
Authors: Seguna Josephine A. 
Published: March 2016

Space, a vital element of contemporary social boundaries, has prompted debate into the significance, embodiment, construction of spatiality and the marginality and exclusion of minorities. Such 'disabled' relations' at the intersection of self and other, self and self, and self and objects function through spatial organization and negotiations of power in everyday experiences. Martin Heidegger's interpretation of space (Being and Time, 1927) allows for new considerations of existence in relation to categorization, labelling and exile of those outside mass society. Human existence is not one of subjectivity but rather the nature of the world through 'Space' as a condition of individual experience and inclusive of all aspects of Dasein's Being-in-the-world-with-others. This paper, using Heidegger's analysis, highlights social interaction and construction of disability as a product of interpretive processes, creating and maintaining division between 'normal and other' and thus ignoring the possibility of conceiving disability as a legitimate, valued embodied difference. Keywords: Spatiality, Heidegger, Disability, Ableism, Critical Disability Studies
Democracia e ativismo judicial: algumas considerações sobre suas causas e consequências
Authors: Oliveira Claudio Ladeira de 
Published: March 2016

Neste artigo discuto as relações conflitantes entre o “ativismo judicial” e os procedimentos democráticos representativos. Primeiramente eu discuto algumas definições que realçam os aspectos “normativos/prescritivos” das posturas judiciais “ativistas” e do funcionamento das instituições democráticas “realmente existentes”. Em seguida, discorro sobre os padrões de argumentos que são utilizados por tribunais para decidir questões politicamente controvertidas, bem como os fatores políticos e institucionais que estimulam a ocorrência de posturas “ativistas”.