Interested in learning about disabilities in the academia space? Here is a place to start!
Guide to Assisting Students with Disabilities: https://amzn.to/4bBZ10L
This book is intended to describe how to meet the needs of health science students with disabilities. Students with disabilities studying health sciences face unique challenges within their educational environments that require distinct accommodations.
Disability as Diversity: https://amzn.to/45YeC9A
Administrators and faculty in medical, nursing and health science programs are witnessing a substantial increase in the number of students with disabilities entering their programs. Provider-patient concordance is a known mechanism for reducing health care disparities. Leaders in these areas must develop robust programs and an understanding of the best practices for inclusion to better healthcare outcomes for patients and providers alike. This first-of-its-kind title is designed to help deans, program directors, faculty, student affairs personnel and disability resource professionals thoughtfully plan for the growing population of health-care professionals with disabilities.
Mad at School: https://amzn.to/4cVTIu7
This is the first book to use a disability-studies perspective to focus specifically on the ways that mental disabilities impact academic culture at institutions of higher education. Individual chapters examine the language used to denote mental disability; the role of “participation” and “presence” in student learning; the role of “collegiality” in faculty work; the controversy over “security” and free speech that has arisen in the wake of recent school shootings; and the marginalized status of independent scholars with mental disabilities.
Academic Ableism: https://amzn.to/4bDI7in
This text brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. Examining everything from campus accommodation processes, to architecture, to popular films about college life, Dolmage argues that disability is central to higher education, and that building more inclusive schools allows better education for all.
Crip Spacetime: https://amzn.to/4f2IBBm
Margaret Price intervenes in the competitive, productivity-focused realm of academia by sharing the everyday experiences of disabled academics. Drawing on more than three hundred interviews and survey responses, Price demonstrates that individual accommodations—the primary way universities address accessibility—actually impede access rather than enhance it.
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