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The Word Project

The Word Project. THIS IS A DRAFT OF OUR POWERPOINT. CHANGES MAY BE MADE PRIOR TO CONFERENCE. The Word Project. Alberto Guzman, University of Arizona Jamie Axelrod, Northern Arizona University Terra Beethe, Bellevue University.

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The Word Project

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  1. The Word Project THIS IS A DRAFT OF OUR POWERPOINT. CHANGES MAY BE MADE PRIOR TO CONFERENCE. AHEAD 2012 Conference New Orleans, LA

  2. The Word Project Alberto Guzman, University of Arizona Jamie Axelrod, Northern Arizona University Terra Beethe, Bellevue University AHEAD 2012 Conference New Orleans, LA

  3. Alberto Guzman, Ph.D. has a doctoral degree in Disability Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interest relate to the intersection of disability in higher education. Dr. Guzman currently works at the University of Arizona where he works with different stakeholders to ensure equitable access for employees with disabilities working at the Arizona campus

  4. Jamie Axelrod attended New York University where he earned a B.A. in Psychology. He earned his M.S. in Counseling at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduating with his M.S., Jamie began working as a mental health therapist in Valparaiso, In. before moving to Wyoming. In Wyoming, Jamie continued his work as a mental health therapist .After ten years at a community mental health center Jamie went to work for Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc., a disability rights advocacy law firm. Jamie joined the Disability Resources team at NAU in August of 2007and became the director in October 2009.

  5. Terra Beethe, M.S., is the current Secretary for AHEAD. She recently transitioned into the role as the Faculty Development Coordinator at Bellevue University located in Bellevue, NE; where she previously was a Disability Services Specialist for the past seven years. She has earned a Bachelor’s of Arts at in Elementary/Special Education at Dana College, in addition to a Master’s of Science in Reading from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Beethe has been also been active in the AHEAD Affiliate program for the past 6 years. She was President for the regional affiliate WINAHEAD (Western Iowa & Nebraska AHEAD) for three terms and served as the lead affiliate representative for all affiliates for the last three years. She is currently the BOD Affiliate Liaison for the AHEAD Regional Affiliate program.

  6. Learning Outcomes • Participants will display concept comprehension through collaborative learning via the construction of a professional glossary of terms based upon the theoretical foundation of Disability Studies. AHEAD 2012 Conference- New Orleans, LA

  7. Survey Says… • What words do you use in the name of your office? • How did you choose those words? • What did you consider in making those choices? (Oxford, 2007) AHEAD 2012 Conference – New Orleans, LA

  8. You tell us… • As you think about it now, what do those words convey to you? • Have you asked Faculty, Staff, and Students what it conveys to them? • If so, what feedback have you received? (Contactology, 2012.) AHEAD 2012 Conference – New Orleans, LA

  9. Final Questions… • Are you interested in changing? If so, why? • Are you open to changing? Why? • What concerns, if any, do you have with the words you currently use? • What concerns would you have about changing the words you currently use? AHEAD 2012 Conference – New Orleans, LA

  10. Nothing About Us Without Us Charlton, 2000, p. 17 “See change in the way disability oppression is conceived and resisted.” (University of Toledo, 2008) AHEAD 2012 Conference - New Orleans, LA

  11. Justifying inequality (Baynton, 2001) • Irrationality, excessive emotionality, physical weakness • Defective hemostasis, or atmospherization of the blood, conjoined with a deficiency of cerebral matter in the cranium • Rarely have oppressed groups denied that disability is an adequate justification for social and political inequality. (Pepperdine, 2007) AHEAD 2012 Conference -New Orleans, LA

  12. Disability Studies Role (Swain, French, & Cameron 2003; Snyder, 2006) • Meanings attributed to physical, sensorial and cognitive differences • Disabled People’s lifestyles and aspirations • Disability as a social phenomena or construct • Shift away from prevention, treatment and remediation • Social change • Not the Disability Business (UNC, 2012) AHEAD 2012 Conference -New Orleans, LA

  13. Conceptual Evolutions (Baynton, 2001; Davis, 1997) • Early 19th century • Ideal or Natural • Grotesque or monstrous • Later on the same century • Normal • Defective (Dashscribbler, 2012) AHEAD 2012 Conference - New Orleans, LA

  14. Linguistic Conventions (Linton, 1998) • Disability definitions • -ADA • -Medicine • -Social model • -Minority model (Outlook, 2007) AHEAD 2012 Conference - New Orleans, LA

  15. Let’s talk about … (Conversation Agent, 2012) AHEAD 2012 Conference - New Orleans, LA

  16. Questions (Imperial College, 2008) AHEAD 2012 Conference - New Orleans, LA

  17. Contact Us Dr. Alberto Guzman AHEAD, Director At Large (520) 626-8971 albertog@email.arizona.edu Terra Beethe AHEAD, Secretary 402.557.7145 terra.beethe@bellevue.edu Jamie Axelrod AHEAD, Director at Large (928) 523-8773 Jamie.Axelrod@nau.edu

  18. References • Baynton, D. (2001). Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History. The New Disability History: American Perspective. New York University Press. • Charlton, J. (2000). Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, University of California Press • Contactology. Online Survey Software. Retrieved on June 11, 2012 from http://www.contactology.com/survey-software.php • Conversation Agent. Connecting Ideas and People: How talk can Change our Lives. Retrieved on June 12, 2012 from http://www.conversationagent.com/2007/12/index.html. • Dashscribbler. Medgaupload Shut Down and Kodak Files for Bankruptcy. Retrieved on June 12, 2012 from http://dashscribbler.wordpress.com/tag/conceptual-age/ • Davis, L. (1997). Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century. The Disability Studies Reader, edited by Lennard J. Davis. Routledge. • Imperial College London. Retrieved on June 11, 2008 from http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/edudev/faqs • Linton, S. (1998). Reassigning Meaning. Claiming Disability. New York University Press.

  19. References Continued Outlook Southwest. Retrieved May 20, 2007 from http://www.outlooksw.co.uk/medico_legal.html Oxford and Cherwell Valley College. Retrieved May 20, 2007 from http://www.occ.ac.uk/higher_classroom_support_2.html/ Pepperdine University. Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from gsep.pepperdine.edu/family/ Snyder, S. (2006). Disability Studies. Cultural Locations of Disability. University of Chicago Press. Swain, J., French, J., & C. Cameron.(2003). Controversial Issues in a Disabling Society. Open University Press. UNC School of Medicine. New Voices Interdisciplinary Consulting Project. Retrieved June 11, 2012 from http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/projects/new-voices-project University of Toledo. Retrieved June 11, 2008 from http://www.utoledo.edu/studentsuccesscenter/quest.html

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