Vocabulary Bank
Words we will learn about:
Listed below are the words we will be learning in this course:
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Let's build an Wiki Page with more definitions and examples to help us understand the language of Disability Studies !
Definitions:
- Ableism/ Ableist
- Ally
- Audism
(http://deafchoice.com/faq/what-is-an-audist/º
- Autism *
(https://www.autismspeaks.org/what-autism)
- Cerebral Palsy
- Cisgender- Cissexism
Cissexism- “a form of sexism, specifically, a way of thought in which only cisgender people are seen as normal or right. Cissexism is harmful to all kinds of transgender people, including non-binary people”. (nonbinary.org/wiki/Cissexism)
- Community Accountability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Accountability
- Crip Theory:
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Cultural Model
- DDBDDHHLD
- Deficit Model* (aka. Medical Model)
- DeafBlind
- DeafBlind Autonomy
- Disability
- Disability Justice:
- Disability Theory
- Eugenics
- Foucault
- Gender Neutral
- Impairment
- Intersectionality
- Interdependence
- Inspiration Porn
- LGBTQQIA
- Little Person
- http://www.lpaonline.org/faq-
- http://www.lpaonline.org/faq-
- Medical Model * (AKA Deficit Model
- Medical Industrial Complex
- https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medical-industrial-complex-visual/
- https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/medical-industrial-complex-visual/
- Multiple Sclerosis
- http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/multiple_sclerosis/multiple_sclerosis.htm
- http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/multiple_sclerosis/multiple_sclerosis.htm
- Neurodivergent
- Non-Gender Conforming
- Normalcy
- ProTactile
- Queer Theory (from Disability Perspective)
- Reclaim
- Reframe
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/reframe)
- Social Constructionism
- Social Model
- Spoons (Spoons Theory)
- Taking Space
- Vidism
For example, a hearing parent of a child with early stage low vision might be encouraging that child to read in print and bypass braille learning development. As the child grows older into adulthood, the person might end up with their nose literally in abook because that's the only way they can read instead of reading more comfortably with braille. Denying the previously-young child the opportunity to develop access skills in their native way (through touch.)
Then there are some of the more sensitive issues. For example, when someone sends you a link to a news story about a new experimental implant to improve eyesight for blind (or DeafBlind) people and say something like "This is encouraging!" Well for me, a proud DeafBlind person who neither regrets nor seeks to exit the DeafBlind way of life, such a comment is deeply disturbing to me. Much in the same way that comments about cochlear implants are disturbing to a Deaf person.
Then there are some of the general attitudinal issues, prevalent in the Deaf community, some subtle, and some blatant. Some examples:
- Many Deaf events are resistant to providing accommodation services to DeafBlind participants, such as tactile interpreters or SSP services. While some organizations really cannot afford it (understandably) others DO have the funds but simply don't want to provide it. Thus alienating the DeafBlind community.
- Continuing with that example, the oftentimes claim that DeafBlind are part of the Deaf community. But is that really true? While DeafBlind individuals may strive to attend and participate in Deaf Community events, the opposite is almost never true. In the many DeafBlind events I have traveled to around the country, very rarely do I see any Deaf people there unless they are "working" as an interpreter, or SSP or other type of service provider. But never have I seen Deaf people attend a DB event just to attend because we're all the same community”. - Yuko Yunashko,