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Ableism: My thoughts 1 year later…

Posted in Blogroll, Comments and Reflections, UDL Theory, Web Links on May 1st, 2009 5 Comments »

Last January I blogged about my reflections following reading: New Directions in Education: Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice by Thomas Hehir. The following thoughts stuck with me and guided my practice over the past year.

Hehir defines ableism as ” deeply held negative attitudes toward disability that are analogous to racism”.

Then I looked up “racism” [...]

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Ableism

Posted in Blogroll, Comments and Reflections, UDL Theory, ableism on Jan 6th, 2008 No Comments »

I have been reading the book: New Directions in Education: Eliminating Ablism in Policy and Practice by Thomas Hehir. It brought up a wide variety of issues that impact educating students with disabilities. The first and most basic to the author’s perspective is ableism.
Ableism is to students with disabilities what racism is to people of different races or [...]

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