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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.…

This interpretive essay attempts to show how it is possible to be an educator with important things to say about good practice gained from experiences – a cultivation of oneself known as Bildung - that often happens "…beyond our wanting…

In Disability Studies, Universal Design (UD) is a concept that is often borrowed from an architectural or design context to mean an ideology of inclusion and flexibility with a range of applications in education, technology, and other milieus. This paper…

This one-year multicultural feminist critical narrative inquiry focuses on how one Puerto Rican/Black working class male draws on his spirituality to negotiate his speech-related (dis)ability. By utilizing multiple qualitative methods, the researcher and child-co-researcher illuminate how he draws on his…

Descriptions of autism in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals of the APA and throughout much of the history of autism emphasize difficulties in social interaction, communication and imaginative play. Recent reports by self-advocates, neuroscientists and other researchers suggest that sensory…

In schooling structures concerned with a mind/body divide, various intelligences and voices are pathologized. There is a plethora of knowledge that tells a powerful fiction about how we are unable to learn. Unfortunately, this fairy-tale is not experienced as fiction…