Challenges, Strategies, Solutions

The things disabled students do or that others do for them. Disabled students have to be always 3 steps ahead. They are constantly assessing accessibility. They often have to be everywhere earlier than everyone else to arrive on time or ensure they have enough space in the location. Wheelchair users are often prevented from entering [...]

The use of language

  I’ve been thinking some more about this – in light of the reading on the models of disability and how words communicate much more than their literal meaning. Our words are part of the wider discourse, the process of social interaction, the ‘complex interaction between participatns, text and context’ (Graddol et al, 1994, p.191) [...]