Why We Dread Disability Myths - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Not only does that message put the burden of access on the student, it also positions the accommodations talk as a moment to wean students off their accommodations. Such images are common in disability representations: the individual with a disability is presented as the "problem" and the simple resolution is that they "overcome" the disability. In other words, just make it go away, like magic!
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he most important voices we need to be listening to are the students themselves instead of "speaking for, through, and about" them.
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disregards the significance of accommodations and perpetuates the attitude that the burden of access is something individual students can carry on their own — with just a little bit of elbow grease.
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