scholarly journals "Gotta Go Now": Rethinking the Use of the Mighty and Simon Birch

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Arndt ◽  
Julia M. White ◽  
Andrea Chervenak
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Film Analysis ◽  
Font Size

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: ">Critical film analysis in the context of disability studies is introduced, and implications of disability portrayals in film are discussed. Two films often used in middle school classrooms, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Simon Birch</em> and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Mighty,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></em>are introduced and briefly summarized. The films are critiqued<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </em>using Norden’s conceptualizations of stereotypic roles for characters with disabilities including the "sweet innocent" and "comic misadventurer." Finally, the importance of critical screening is outlined and ways that teachers can use these films in ways that are respectful of people with disabilities based on criteria developed by Safran (2000) are offered. </span></p>

Mobilizing Disability Studies

Transfers ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Kudzai Matereke
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Equal Access ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Critical Intervention

Despite how the fields of mobility and disability studies have vastly contributed to our understanding of our lifeworld, the two, however, share asymmetric acknowledgement of each other. Mobility recurs as an aspiration for those with a disability yet disability tends to be ignored or inadequately dealt with in mobility studies. This article seeks to achieve two main objectives: first, to discuss how and what the journal has achieved over the years; and, second, to highlight that the denial of mobility is a negation of what it means to be human. Overall, the article seeks to deploy a critical intervention required for mobility studies to return the gesture to disability studies in equal magnitude. By situating the discussion within the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, this article argues that at the interface of mobility and disability lies a politics of possibility for people with disabilities in their struggles for equal access and full citizenship.

scholarly journals ParticipaTIC: Lessons from developing accessible on-line training for disabled people’s leaders

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Cuenot ◽  
W Sherlaw
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Speech Synthesis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
On Line ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Inclusive Society

Abstract The ParticipaTIC Erasmus+ project led by the EHESP School of Public Health in partnership with disability organizations and associations from France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Romania has co-designed an accessible digital platform. In line with the 2010-2020 European strategy and the United Nations Convention on the rights of disabled persons we aim to strengthen the competences of the leaders of disabled persons’ organizations to defend the rights of disabled people, and to develop participation. ParticipaTIC offers 4 modules on ‘What is disability?’, ‘Competencies for disability organization leaders’, ‘the United Nations Convention’ and ‘How to carry out a local accessibility analysis’. Different contrasts, font size, speech synthesis, captioned videos and content summaries in ‘Easy to read and understand’ French are available together with a cloned platform in Romanian and English. Two guides have also been produced on 1) on-line accessibility and 2) co-constructing an on-line accessible platform. Beyond the deliverables, adapting on-line instruction to the different capacities of people with disabilities raises many issues. New competencies for accessible design are needed. Tradeoffs between content, pedagogical style and accessibility seem inevitable. On-line activities need adaptations but these may be complex and costly. Taken-for-granted assumptions about what is attractive, and well-designed are called into question when designing for people with visual, auditory, and intellectual impairments. Lessons from ParticipaTIC are remarkably similar to those of participatory thinking design: advance in small steps, evaluating successive design phases with people with disabilities for fitness of purpose. Ultimately trainers need to redesign themselves to take into account unsuspected worlds, those of our fellow citizens with different capacities. Important lessons beyond the world of on-line instruction for the building of a truly inclusive society have emerged.

scholarly journals Human Rights and Neoliberalism in Australian Welfare to Work Policy: Experiences and Perceptions of People with Disabilities and Disability Stakeholders

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Parker Harris ◽  
Randall Owen ◽  
Karen R Fisher ◽  
Robert Gould
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
National Level ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Welfare To Work ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
The Government

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; tab-stops: 6.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span>Recent policy approaches in Australia, influenced by neoliberalism, have constrained the implementation of international disability rights at the national level. Within the neoliberal and human rights approaches to social policy, what is the lived experience of people with disabilities? In focus groups with people with disabilities and interviews with disability stakeholders in Australia, participants were asked about their experiences and perspectives of welfare to work programs. We analyzed the data by drawing on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a framework. The analysis revealed tensions between the rights and responsibilities of citizens and the government, and a disconnection between policy discourse and policy practice. The results suggest that disability rights are jeopardized unless governments take responsibility to create the policy environment for rights-based policy to be implemented; including the equalization of opportunities, providing accessible information and communication about employment, and addressing the administration and process practices that employment service providers follow.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals Brokenness / Transformation: Reflections on Academic Critiques of L'Arche

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Burghardt
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

<p>L'Arche, an international federation of communities for adults with intellectual disabilities, has been critiqued by disability studies scholars throughout its fifty-year history due to its religiosity, its apparent lack of a rigorous stance on the need to address policy concerning people with disabilities, its philosophy concerning disability's meanings, and features of its language and discourse.  I address these concerns as someone who is both an academic and a long-term member of a L'Arche community. While there is historically limited and uneasy interaction between these two communities, I suggest there is potential for mutual and worthwhile exchange from theoretical and practical perspectives.</p>

scholarly journals Representation of art as an ethical and political act

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Kallio-Tavin
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Political Act ◽  
Alternative Understanding

In this article, I discuss the representation of people with disabilities as an ethical and political act, including the intimate demand of face-to-face encountering with another person and a picture in an artwork. The article explores the project, Good afternoon Mr. Holbein, by Pekka Elomaa, through two different image interpretations, which together offer an alternative understanding to the dominant discourse on image analysis. The politics of representation of people with disabilities is troubled together with Levinasian philosophy and disability studies in art education.

Perspectives of a Differently Abled Man: A Peep into VaibhavKolhe’s

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 338-341
Author(s):  
D. Sindhuja
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The People ◽  
People With Disability

Disability studies provoke a clear and consistently thought provoking portrayal of differently abled people. Nowadays, people with disability face many problems in their day-to-day life. All people have their own dreams to achieve something special in this world. Likewise, the people with disabilities also have some dreams. The novel,The Incomplete by VaibhavKolhe deals with the difficulties and the challenges undergone by the protagonist in his life. The protagonist narrates several incidents from his childhood to his adolescence. He faces a lot of struggles in his life because of his physical disability. Even in his love, he fails because of expressing his inner emotions. This novel mainly depicts the fact that how the protagonist accepts his disability as a challenge and how he overcomes his weakness. The present paper focuses on the sufferings and reactions of a differently abled man and how he adapts to the environment and the people in the substandard society.

POLISH RESEARCHERS’ THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO DISABILITY: FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DISABILITY STUDIES

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Joanna Głodkowska ◽  
Marta Pągowska
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cognitive Space ◽  
Research Orientations

The article presents Polish researchers' scientific approaches to the phenomenon of disability in a historical perspective and in view of modern interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical studies. Humanistic and social approaches to disability create a new, interdisciplinary cognitive space. Researchers highlight the strengths, potential and developmental power of people with disabilities more and more clearly. From this perspective, disability is not perceived as an individual problem only. It is becoming apparent that it is necessary to carry out detailed and multidimensional empirical investigations that take into consideration the social, cultural and political context of how people with disabilities live. The article looks at Polish researchers' achievements that fit in with the trend dating from the second half of the 20th century - Disability Studies. The authors review and analyze paradigms of disability to show positivist and humanistic research orientations, methodological pluralism and an interdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of disability.

scholarly journals Między niepełnosprawnością a przekładem. Osoby niepełnosprawne jako twórcy i odbiorcy przekładu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wojciech Figiel
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Language Interpretation ◽  
Sociology Of Translation ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Access Services

This paper deals with the relations between the phenomena of disability and translation studies. Translation studies and disability studies are relatively new fields, which up until recently had little in common. However, for more than a dozen years now, scholars of translation have focused on research concerning access services for people with disabilities. These services include, among others, audio description, sign language interpretation and subtitles for the deaf and the hard of hearing. However, there is not too much research concerning people with disabilities as creators, and not recipients, of translation. There is also a lack of translation scholars with disabilities. The interdisciplinary perspective of sociology of translation and disability studies may help to bridge this gap by providing a more inclusive approach to studies on translation.

scholarly journals Fashionable: styling the unique body

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keva Legault
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Process ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shed Light

Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in the use of diverse models in fashion media ranging from plus size models to older and ethically diverse models. People with disabilities, however, remain invisible in fashion magazines and advertising. My research addresses this absence with a project that is both empirical and creative. Working across disciplinary borders, it will advance both my own field of Fashion and Disability Studies by opening a line of inquiry related to the employment (or lack) of models with disabilities in the fashion industry. The project enables me to produce a creative work that will contribute to the larger social process of representing people with disabilities in more complex ways. It will shed light onto how fashion is important to everyone as a key form of expressing identity regardless of physical differences

scholarly journals Fashionable: styling the unique body

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keva Legault
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Social Process ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Fashion Magazines ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shed Light

Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in the use of diverse models in fashion media ranging from plus size models to older and ethically diverse models. People with disabilities, however, remain invisible in fashion magazines and advertising. My research addresses this absence with a project that is both empirical and creative. Working across disciplinary borders, it will advance both my own field of Fashion and Disability Studies by opening a line of inquiry related to the employment (or lack) of models with disabilities in the fashion industry. The project enables me to produce a creative work that will contribute to the larger social process of representing people with disabilities in more complex ways. It will shed light onto how fashion is important to everyone as a key form of expressing identity regardless of physical differences

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