Finalized Program

Program: Second City Disability Studies in Education Conference 2015

Tuesday, April 14^th (12:00pm –  8:00pm)

12:00                       Registration Opens

1:00-2:15              Concurrent Sessions 1

1A. Neurodiversity/Neuroqueer in Disability Studies in Education

·       The Place of Neurodiversity/Neuroqueer in Disability Studies in Education:  Phil Smith, Elizabeth Grace, Zach Richter, Susan Song, and Stephanie Ban

1B. Transforming Teacher Education through Disability Studies

·       Connecting Disability Studies in Education to Social Foundations: Breaking Through to  Mainstream “Special” Education: Christie Routel

·       A Cultural Exploration:  Identity & Disability Literacy: Linda Ware

1C. Riding the Third Wave from Transition Planning through Adult Living

·       Establishing Community in the Third Wave of DSE:  Lessons from an Independence Narrative: Amy Boelé

·       Critical Issues for the Third Wave of Disability Studies in Education: Doris Fleischer

·       Self Advocacy and Self Determination for Youth with Disability and their Parents During School Transition Planning: Eva Rodriguez

·       Assessing Opportunities in a Technology Center for Non-traditional Students in Special Education: Jennifer Wolf and Robert Anderson

2:30-3:45              Concurrent Sessions 2

2A. Critical Perspectives of Disability Policy on School Practice

·       CCSS Alignment with IEP Goals: Another Way to Create Winners and Losers in School: Maggie Bartlett, Amy Otis-Wilbor and Nancy Jean Sims

·       Where is the Special Needs Coordinator? The Position of the SENCO in the Support of Teachers: Inge Van de Putte

·       State Continuum Policies and their Relationships to Access to General Education Contexts for Students with Intellectual Disability: Julia White and Meghan Cosier

2B. Lessons Learned from Empowered Parents of Children with Disabilities

·       Crossing Thresholds with a Child with a Disability: Elisabeth De Schauwer

·       Pitfalls and Pratfalls in Navigating the Educational System with a Focus on Competence and Inclusion: Jane Strauss

2C. The Continued Fight Towards Communication Rights for All: New Directions and Understandings 

·       Communication [Still] Under Fire: The Role of Disability Studies in Education in the Fight for Communication Access, Equity and Choice: Christy Ashby, Eunyoung Jung, Katherine Vroman, and Casey Woodfield

·       Disney Dialogues: No Sidekick Left Behind: Telory Davies Arendell

·       Meaningful Communication for Individuals with Autism: From Disability Rights to Current Effective Practices: Fernanda Orsati and Renee Starowicz

·       Examining Communication Competence through the Classroom Interactions of a Preschool-Age Child with Autism: Laura De Thorn, Julie Hengst, Hillary Valentino, and Stephanie Russell

6:00-8:00              Opening Event

Awards: TBA

Evening Panel:

·       Honoring the Work of Steven J. Taylor: Combining Scholarship and Advocacy in the Service of Social Justice: Deanna Adams, Jessica Bacon, Douglas Biklen, Alicia Broderick, Danielle Cowley, Christopher Kliewer, Janet Sauer, Linda Ware, and Julia White

Wednesday, April 15^th (9:00am – 8:00pm)

9:00-10:15           Concurrent Sessions 3

3A. Old Theories, New Directions for Disability Studies and Education

·       The Third Wave of Disability Studies in Education:  Radicalizing “Dis/Ability” and Radicalizing “Education”: Alicia Broderick

·       Disability Capital: Applying Bourdieu to Equity Concerns in Transition and Family Involvement: Zach McCall

·       High-Tide: Riding the Wave of a Structuralist Perspective in Disability Studies: Amy Tepper Karolewicz

3B. Evolving and Promoting Universal Design for Learning for Inclusive and Just Classrooms

·       Universally Designed Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Attending to Intersection of Dis/ability, Race, Class, Gender, and Language Differences: Federico Waitoller & Kathleen King Thorius

·       Universal Design for Learning, Youth Fictions and More: Exploring Ways to Support Teacher Candidates in Developing Perceptions of Disability and Knowledge in Teaching: Xiuwen Wu

·       The Time is Now: Why Universal Design for Learning is the Ticket to Inclusion: Anne Zavell

3C. Possibilities Opened Through the Integration of Arts and Design with Disability Studies and Education

·       What’s So “Special” about Theatre Art?  Or, Making Choices to Include People with Disabilities an Ordinary Act: Cheryl Kaplan Zachariah

·       Pedagogues Becoming Designer - A Possible Marriage between Disability Studies and Design Thinking: Katrien De Munck

·       Spirits of Another Sort: Jan Valle

·       Disability and the Built Environment: Nathan Wobbe

3D. Metaphors of Border Crossing

·       Refugees, Immigrants, Ambassadors, and Double Agents: Employing Metaphor to Conceptualize Our Lives as Border Crossers between Disability Studies and Special Education: Terry Jo Smith, Elizabeth Dejewski, Elizabeth Grace, Kathy Kotel, Tom Porter, Tom, Xiuwen Wu, and Kate Zilla

10:30-11:45        Concurrent Sessions 4

4A. Enacting a Disability Studies in Education Framework for K-12 classrooms

·       Analyzing School Cultures and Determining Dynamics: A “Devil’s Advocate” Meets “Agony Aunt” Approach: David Connor

·       “Is Disability Studies in Education an Applied Field?” The What, Why and How Differentiating as DSE Practitioners is Our Fate: Andrea Dinaro, Suzanne Stolz, and Heath Brosseau

·       Troubling (Already) Murky Waters: DSE and Initial Teacher Education in One Program in Aotearoa New Zealand: Missy Morton and Letitia Fickel

4B. New Research Methods and the Future of Disability Studies Research

·       Troubling Qualitative Interview Methods: Thoughts on Creating Accessible Narrative Spaces: Danielle Cowley

·        “This is called layering, and yes, it’s totally valid [sic]!”(Remember when you told me this, when we first talked after I submitted the paper for class?? I was so unsure of E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.) : A Research Story: Lauren Fontaine and Amy Petersen

·       Conducting “Inclusion” Research between the Waves: Carol Gill and Larry Voss

·       Mazzeï and Jackson’s ‘Thinking with Theory’(2012) and its possible implementation for Disability Studies in Education: Geert Van Hove and Dominiek Porreye

4C. A Third Wave of Disabled Activism

·       Towards a Practical Disability-Centric Model: Nancy Armstrong-Sanchez

·       When Letters and Phone Calls Get Lost in the Shuffle… Disability Activism Turns to Video: April Coughlin

·       Nothing About Us Without Us:  Bringing Disability Culture Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom: Cara Liebowtiz

4D. Disability Studies in Education as a Tool for Transforming Undergraduate Student Identity

·       Disability Studies in Education as a Tool for Transformation of the Self and Teaching: Brianna Dickens, Mariami Reamy, and Emily Nusbaum

·       How Have We Never Learned About This Before? Undergraduate Student Reactions to Learning about Disability and Inequality: Brian Grossman

·       The Autobiography of Ability: Conceptual Understandings of Intersectionality among In-service Special Education Teachers: Kate McLaughlin

11:45-1:00           LUNCH

1:00-2:15              Concurrent Sessions 5

5A. A Disability Studies in Education Lens in the College Classroom

·       Activism in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through a Disability Studies Lens: Mikela Bjork and Kylah Torre

·       Questions, Questions, Questions: Using Problem-Based Learning to Infuse Disability Studies Concepts into an Introductory Secondary Special Education Course: Laura Eisenman and Marissa Kofke

·       Toward An Awkward Debate Pedagogy: Disclosure, Flexibility and the tyranny of mandatory reciprocity: Zach Richter

·       What Does it Mean to be a DSE Educator?:  Sara Wasserman and Susan Baglieri

5B. Embodying Disabled Identities

·       “Cause I Just Want to Be Myself:” Identity and School Experiences of Adolescents with Disabilities who Identify as a Sexual or Gender Minority: Laurie Gutmann Kahn

·       The Discursive Relationships between Passing as Able-bodied and “Learning Differences” among High School Dyslexic Students: Aubry Threkhold

·       Archetypes of Identity in Disability: Nathan Wobbe

5C. Taking “Presume Competence” into the Third Wave

·       My Educational Journey: Marrita Jenkins

·       Transgressive Acts?: Claiming the Presumption of Competence: Christopher Kliewer and Amy Petersen

·       A Recipe for Success: Active Ingredients of Presuming Competence: Fernanda Orsati and Carrie Rood

5D. Embodied Pedagogy

·       “I don’t understand what you mean”:  Enacting a Disability Studies Framework through Embodied Pedagogy: Mara Sapon-Shevin

2:30-3:45              Concurrent Sessions 6

6A. How Ideologies and Policies Converge in Inclusive Education  

·       The Irony of School “Choice” in the New York City High School Application Process: A Systemic Interrogation of Inclusion: Jessica Bacon

·       Collateral Damage: Students with Learning Disability and the Neoliberal Education Marketplace in New Zealand: Colin Gladstone

·       No Stone Left Unturned: Exploring the Convergence of New Capitalism in Inclusive Education: Federico Waitoller and Elizabeth Kozleski

6B. Narrating the Third Wave

·       Neuroqueering the Exclusive Inclusion Classroom: Chris Bass

·       The Impaired Self:  Treading the Psycho-Emotional Third Wave of Disability Studies in Education: David Feingold

·       The Language Inside: Chronic Illness, Poetry, and Stepping Outside of the Body: Adam Henze and Leslie Rowland

6C. Systemic Inequities and the Institution of Special Education

·       Disability, Race and the Illusion of Educational Equity: Michael Quaintance

·       Cuts Both Ways: Ableism, Racism and the Systemic Violence of Special Education: Gregg Beratan

·       The Overrepresentation of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System:  A Closer Examination of Due Process and the Role of Special Educators: Kelli Bracken and Phil Smith

6D. Intersections of Disability Studies and Education and Inclusion in the Third Wave

·       Investigating Factors Related to Access to General Education Contexts for Students with Intellectual Disability: Meghan Cosier and Julia White

·       The Chopped Challenge: Deconstructing Education: Lynn Gallagher and Lynn Albee

·       From Precious to Raucous: Can an “Inclusive School” Join the Next Wave of DSE?: Amy Hanreddy

·       Accountability for Inclusion: Critical Disability Studies as a Point of Resistance: Lauren Shallish and Ashley Taylor

6-8           Closing Event: TBA

Town Hall Meeting