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Educational Life In The Interregnum: Race, Dis/Ability, And Special Education, Benjamin Kearl
Educational Life In The Interregnum: Race, Dis/Ability, And Special Education, Benjamin Kearl
Democracy and Education
This article undertakes a comparative analysis of special education policy through the juxtaposition of two recent Supreme Court actions: Allston v. Lower Merion School District (2015) and Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (2017). This comparison reveals an ordering of special education policy around questions of race. Specifically, this article argues that special education policy is governed by a racecraft of disability labeling that defines students of color as variously disabled and through a biopolitics of special education that expands disability services for individual students who are within the truth demarcated by scientific-juridical mediations of life. Against such negative …
Tech For Understanding: An Introduction To Assistive And Instructional Technology In The Classroom, Taylor Caldwell
Tech For Understanding: An Introduction To Assistive And Instructional Technology In The Classroom, Taylor Caldwell
Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship
This paper examines the different types of assistive and instructional technology available to students who are classified with one or more of the thirteen disabilities outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (referred to as, IDEA). While the roles of assistive and instructional technology are different, there are many instances where their uses may overlap. Thus, while these two categories will be discussed separately, it should be noted that some information may be applied to each category and more than one piece of technology. The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the world of assistive …