David Connor – RIA #184: Dr. David Connor on Disability Studies
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Read MoreBy Emily Gravett Teaching disability and disability studies occurs in a wide variety of ways and contexts, as it should. While I teach specific courses (e.g., Religion & Disability) that are part of my institution’s Disability Studies Minor, I also try to teach disability in my other courses, in perhaps more subtle and implicit… Continue Reading Reflections on a Universally Designed Rotating Note-Taker Assignment
Read Moreby Madeline Fowler Abstract Although Disability Studies is a recognized course of study at over forty institutions nationwide, the degree is not yet available at a number of universities, including my own Duke University. To study this promising field, I designed my own undergraduate degree, Disability Studies and Ethical Mental Healthcare, through Duke University’s Program… Continue Reading Curricular Advocacy: An Undergraduate Perspective on Creating Degrees in Disability Studies
Read MoreEDF 6481 521 Foundations of Educational Research Spring 2017 By Hawa Allarakhia Introduction How is the performance of college students with learning disabilities impacted by the receipt of academic accommodations? Does it really make a difference? The short answer is yes. More and more students with disabilities are going to college these days. The… Continue Reading Academic Accommodations: They Do Make a Difference
Read MoreBy Ray Sitler The American Soldier; many don’t view themselves as veterans because they didn’t see combat as some of their brothers-in-arms did, but either way they have earned the right of the title, Veteran. Our countrymen have seen many a war, be it in the forming of our nation or the shaping of the… Continue Reading Veterans and Disabilities
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