Hello everyone!

Here is the link to the website I made for my mid-semester project!

https://sites.google.com/haverford.edu/harlemvalleypsychiatriccenter/hvpc-in-summary

I'm really looking forward to exploring everyone else's projects this week!

Hi All! For my mid-semester project I created a website that explores the history of education for children with disabilities and the different models of education. The website has a mix of images, text, videos and an infographic so I hope you find a way to engage with the content that best suits you! :) Enjoy 

https://sites.google.com/haverford.edu/moving-towards-inclusive-ed

How to Report with Care on Disability

here is my mid-term project :)

Hey all,

I really appreciated watching Mel Baggs' video "In My Language". I particularly found it really interesting how they described their language to be the way they interact with the world around them, rather than putting explicit meaning into every action. I never really considered stimming to be a form of communication, however, the materials for this week certainly informed me that these are definitely forms of communication. Mel's points about verbal communication being the standard language of communication are really strong. It is very frustrating and wrong that people who communicate through non verbal forms of communication are treated as less than human.

reading the "Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life" reminded me of "The Collected Schizophrenias Essays" by Esme Weijun Wang, so i wanted to talk more about the presence of mental illness/madness and how it affects our experiences in academics. Esme Wang's chapter, "Yale Will Not Save You", details how her experience at Yale defined her as a schizoaffective person, and how, eventually, the misdiagnosis of Bipolar disorder, the hesitancy to treat and medicate, and the pushout of mentally ill students led to her suicidal and out of school.

We talked a lot in class about the ironic difficulty in accessing accommodations, but we didn't talk much on how even once they've been acquired they're not always honored or may be difficult to use personally. I know from my own experience that after getting through all of high school without accommodations, regardless of the fact that I needed them, I now have a major imposter syndrome complex when I use them in college. The major cause of that is the heavy stigmatization of mental or invisible disability as laziness, and therefore any accommodations afforded to them are viewed as 'cheats' or a way to get off easier than everyone else and have a leg up.

When I was researching about "Inclusive Education" I came across this video (a TEDxPanaji) and wanted to share it here. I found Dr Nandita's framing of education, inclusion and disability very clear and powerful. She stresses the mutual values of inclusion, diversity in our youth and how shaping education from a young age can impact community and societal acceptance of disability. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdeYbv4oCME

not as material-centered but an article i wrote for cripple media recently that i was proud of and thought might resonate with other disabled students!