Abstract
The labels applied to men and women with impairments are more than simply the construction of a phrase. This chapter investigates the journey of labels and their impact on the lives and expectations of students and staff.
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Swain et al. (2003).
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A strong example of this desire to move outside the deficit model is from India. Rehabilitation concerns are managed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. This Ministry was constructed to challenge the binary opposition of ‘normal’ and ‘deficient.’ Refer to Arjun and Ganapathi (2014).
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To demonstrate the long-term history of injustice, it is instructive to probe the residue of discrimination in our language. ‘Bedlam’ was the name of a mental health institution in London. Its conditions and treatment of its patients was so appalling, that the word—a proper noun—now describes a chaotic situation.
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Quarmby (2011).
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Letarte (2013).
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The rarity of teachers—let alone university academics—with an impairment is a blockage to equality and social justice. While experience of and expertise in impairment and disability are distinct, the experience of an impairment can create a consciousness for change. A rare article that followed the progress and student perspective on a university academic with an impairment was written by Sheridan and Kotevski (2014).
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Walk a mile in their shoes: Bullying and the child with special needs, Abilitypath.org, 2011, http://www.abilitypath.org/areas-of-development/learning--schools/bullying/articles/walk-a-mile-in-their-shoes.pdf.
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Ibid., p. 3.
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“Just like you,” Cerebral Palsy Alliance Australia , https://www.cerebralpalsy.org.au/just-like-you/.
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Ibid.
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Best Buddies International, http://www.bestbuddies.org/.
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Best Buddies Canada, http://www.bestbuddies.ca/.
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“CSU and the Buddy Walk: A partnership,” SoTECSU YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGEIVbfXX2w and “CSU Burlington and the Buddy Walk,” SoTE YouTube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGFtCS7X_E4.
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Quarmby, op. cit., pp. 191–192.
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Ibid., p. 205.
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Ibid., p. 234.
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Oliver (1990).
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Horton and Tucker (2014).
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Story and Mace (1998).
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I particularly log the importance of Swain et al. (1993).
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Young (2002).
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To view Amber Galloway Gallego’s profile, refer to 1stopforasl, http://www.1stopforasl.com/aboutus.htm.
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“Kendrick Lamar Sign Language Interpreter at Lollapalooza Is Our Hero,” Huffington Post, August 16, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/kendrick-lamar-sign-langu_n_3769343.html.
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To view footage of the wheelchair crowdsurfing, refer to the video Lollapalooza Crowdsurfing. YouTube, August 4, 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25Smvz6xM. The article that discusses it is Bellware (2013).
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This “sensory history” is gaining new and innovative insights through media literacy theorizing. Paul van Trigt realized the value of sensory anthropology in particular, as it “studies the body as a whole and so redefines the senses as the means by which the human body perceives the world and points to the education of the senses,” from P. van Trigt, “The imperfection of narrative: sensory history and the inclusion of the blind in Dutch society in the twentieth century,” from Barsch et al. (2013).
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Corrigan and Watson (2002).
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There are multiple ways in which impairments are categorised. As an example, the Australian Bureau of Statistics deploys five clusters: (a) sensory and speech, (b) intellectual, (c) physical, (d) psychological, (e) head injury, stroke or brain damage. Refer to Disability and Work, Australian Social Trends, March Quarter 2012, http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features40March+Quarter+2012.
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Magnus and Tossebro (2013).
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Mullins and Preyde (2013).
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Madriaga (2007).
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Ibid., p. 147.
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Ibid., p. 155.
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Schur et al. (2013).
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Ibid., p. 39.
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Standing (2013).
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Ibid., p. 14.
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Jeffrey Rune and Daniel Wilson have edited a collection titled Disability and passing: blurring the lines of identity, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013). They recognized the lack of scholarly attention on ‘passing,’ but noted its social, political and theoretical importance. They stated that, “passing is an act that blurs the lines between disability and normality, but those lines were not always too sharp to begin with,” p. 2. While the collection did not address the consequences of recession on such a decision, the historical case studies showed the personal value of blurring the labelling and assumptions of ‘normal’ and ‘impaired.’
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Brabazon, T. (2015). The Politics of Labels. In: Enabling University. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12802-3_4
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