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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
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Culture as Disability
At the start of the article, in the italicized heading, McDermott defines disability as inadequate performances on tasks that are arbitrarily circumscribed from daily life, thus posing the argument that disability is less on the individuals cognitive/physical ability but enforced by a cultural and society focus. He enforced this statement by saying that the culture that defines disability is not reproduced by one individual but by many members, culture innately is "polymorphous and multivocalic".
There is not one institution or individual that shapes the view of disabilities, thus making it a collective responsibility to check not only our privilege as able bodied individuals but our perceptions of disability themselves.