My reflection is attached.

My project is attached. Enjoy!

Hi all! I hope your semesters are wrapping up well. For my final project, I am hosting an exhibition titled PLEASE TOUCH THE ART: an anti-aesthetic prohject in VCAM's Maker Space 006 (downstairs) from Monday 5/14 through Monday 5/21. There will be a small opening reception where I can answer questions, discuss works, and more on Monday 5/14 from 2-3 p.m. The link to the Facebook event is here. All works are attached to this post (please let me know if you have issues viewing the works)! I hope you can stop by at some point in the next two weeks as these works are meant to be touched rather than seen.

In my application for this class last year, I wrote that mostly what I knew about disability was that I did not know much. Coming into this class with no academic grounding in concepts of disability and only a bit of experiential learning in the field, I did not know the fundamental definitions in disabilities studies. Beginning with Eli Claire, helped me enter into disability studies by highlighting on the interdisciplinary and interconnected aspects of field. The themes of equality and self advocacy were partially what drew me to take this class, what Claire highlights in his work, and what stood out to me most about the course material.

Here is my final project attached. Thank you!

Attached is my reflection on my learning this semester. I'm thinking here about the value of storytelling and embodied experience over traditional, academic "objective" understandings of truth. I think about my experience in this class as a whole as more of an experience than just a class, and one that has impacted me as a person as well as a learner! Thank you all so much for creating that space!

Thank you so much for an amazing semester, friends! I've attached my final project, which is a lesson plan for a workshop for college students that centers around issues of disability and language. I have learned so much from all of you and have really enjoyed being in class with you. Hope everybody has a great summer! 

I was moved to do one last quick post because I've been working on writing a thank you note to Vinetta, my partner at CCW, after the opening on Monday. It was a funny experience being at the exhibit and realizing that I might not see Vinetta ever again - even though we had only spent one day a week together, her presence has become such a big part of my semester. I've been saying a lot of goodbyes this week and will continue to next week, and each one has proved extremely difficult: walking away from someone who was important to you, it's almost impossible to feel like you said or expressed everything you wanted to.

For the CDS final paper I plan to analyze museum accessibility and accommodations for children on the Autism spectrum.  The rhetoric and activism around museum accessibility tends to center physical accommodations, but the needs of those with learning or developmental disabilities, not so much.  Fortunately, improvements are being made to accommodations of such children; for instance, as we have seen in class, "social stories" can be very helpful in adjusting young visitors with Autism to the bustling museum space.  Other alternatives include online 'before-you-go' tours and interactive maps to plan the family or class visit (the

Monday's CCW exhibition opening was a much bigger occasion than I thought - I don't know why, but somehow I did not expect that many people to be there! Seeing the Bryn Mawr and Haverford communites (whether students, faculty, or families) come together for this array of the CCW artists' work was truly amazing. There was so much excitement and interest in everyone's voices, as well as in the artists' as they described their work. I really enjoyed every minute!