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AUCD: Concurrent Sessions: Disability Studies & Higher Education

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pdf File Eisenman AUCD Stories Handout.pdf [download]

pdf File AUCD 2018 Disability Studies slides Gilson.pdf [download]

Presenter

Laura Eisenman, Professor
Center for Disabilities Studies, UCEDD/LEND

Other Presenter(s)

STEPHEN GILSON, PhD, Orono, ME, United States, ME - The University of Maine, Center for Community Inclusion, UCEDD;
Matthew Wangeman, MCP, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, AZ - Institute for Human Development, UCEDD;
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Description

This session presents three perspectives on disability studies in higher education. One explains why disability studies belongs in higher education. Another shares stories about belonging in college as told by students with intellectual disability. The third describes why a person with a significant disability teaches disability studies.

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