When you want to study social movements around neurodiversity or take part in them, knowing what is happening online is essential: but how can you do so ? This presentation will deal with digital activism around neurodiversity (focusing mainly on the French context) and deal with the scientific and political possibilities brought by the visualizati...
Participating in academic events of knowledge exchange is primordial for researchers. The experiential experiences of people with visual impairments with accessibility differences in such scientific practices are reflected. The theoretical concept of ‘accessible participation’ is linked with the exchange of lived experiences of the first tw...
Based on a detailed examination of video recordings of Locomotion and Orientation lessons, this chapter explores the social production and reception of assistance pre-proposals to blind students by sighted pedestrians at an urban crossing. We examine the combination of several resources which makes publicly recognizable an embodied and embedded dis...
An exploration into the design of a portable music player for people with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Published in Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
How do religions and social order interact with each other? Scholars of religions have repeatedly explored this question from numerous perspectives. However, they have yet to utilise the approach of disability studies, which focuses on disability as a social ordering process, to address this question. As such, not only have the manifold empirical r...
The abrupt switch to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted pervasive ableism; accommodations that had been “impossible” were suddenly available. This critical commentary draws from interviews with 16 students and our own ethnographic accounts as student/professor to understand how COVID shaped disabled experiences in the classroo...
Ce cours a pour but d'introduire les étudiants de Master aux Disability Studies, ou études sur le handicap, champ de recherche pluridisciplinaire issu des mouvements sociaux anglo-saxons des années 1960-1970, situé dans le domaine des sciences humaines et sociales, qui, depuis les années 1980, ne cesse de se structurer et de se complexifier, au poi...
Historically, the accessibility community has focused on designing assistive technologies and systems related to single categories of impairments. While this approach is justifiable and contributes to the advancement of the field, many researchers argue that designing technologies for one impairment at a time contributes to an oversimplification of...
Der Beitrag zeichnet internationale Entwicklungen in den Disability Studies nach. Aufgrund der Bedeutung für die Entstehung und weltweite Verbreitung des multidisziplinären Forschungsfelds liegt der Fokus auf den englischsprachigen Diskursen. Skizziert werden drei historische Phasen: die Etablierung der Disability Studies in den 1970er und 1980er J...
BACKGROUND: Women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) experience disparities in obstetric care access and quality, in addition to communication gaps with healthcare providers. Many obstetric providers are untrained and uneducated about critical aspects of providing care to persons with IDDs. OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to...
