"You need to rethink what image you have of your students, and what image you have of professional behavior.

A lot of the qualities that we claim to foster are qualities that contribute to ableism."

@AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Diversity #DisabledInSTEM #AcademicAbleism

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"When we tell students that they need to develop certain skills, we tell students with disability that they are not enough.

We tell students with anxiety issues that they can just "overcome" their anxiety if they want to make a career." 2/6

"We tell students with processing disorders that the world won't wait for them.

We tell students with stutters that they just need more practice.

When we tell students that they shouldn't say um, or like, or they should practice public speaking so they don't flush.."
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"or they should make themselves uncomfortable, we're completing the cycle of discrimination. And we're limiting ourselves from imagining a world in which those things don't really matter. I think that's a huge loss."
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"Do you care about your students actually learning? Or do you care about the performativity of learning?

We need to sit with that question. All too often we demand impossibilities from our disabled students and our disabled colleagues. It's time that we reassess."
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If you learned something from this thread, then watch the whole talk by Nicole Schroeder.

Make online courses accessible to disabled students.

Make your course welcoming to disabled students. #Academia #DisabilityRights



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