18th Annual Conference

The Eighteenth Annual Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability

"What I Know"

April 17 & 18, 2018

On The Ohio State University’s Columbus Campus

Multiple Perspectives is an ongoing exploration of disability, a conversation including many voices that reflect perspectives gained through experience and research, theory and practice, art and science. This year’s theme “What I Know” is based on a quote from R.D. Lang:

“If I don't know I don't know, I think I know.

If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.”

Join a wide ranging conversation about disability, sharing what you know and learning what you do not. Whether you are discussing employment, technology, education, recreation, or policy the questions and quotes below can help you frame and organize your thoughts.

  • What is Disability?

"Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live." -- Neil Marcus

  • What is Inclusion?

“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” -- Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

  • What is Equity?

"We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought." -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • What is Access?

“Congress understood in shaping the ADA, it would sometimes require not blindfolded equality, but responsiveness to difference; not indifference, but accommodation.” -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
8:30am–10:00am - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Disability in Public:  Representations, Stereotypes, Identities, and Policies  Pfahl Hall 302

Jeff Brune; Doron Dorfman; Nicole Sims: Mariela Yabo

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Recognized Postsecondary and Industry-Recognized Credentials:  Pathways to Employment  Pfahl Hall 340

Bill Bauer; Erika Campolito; Diane Clouse; Margo Izzo; Jackie Teny-Miller

Session C: Bridging Disability Studies with Marginalized Communities, Movements, and Fields  Pfahl Hall 140

Timotheus Gordon, Jr.; Lzz Johnk; Meghann O’Leary; Hailee Yoshizaki-Gibbons

10:15am–11:45am - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Who Wants to be a Disability Expert?  Pfahl Hall 340

Doug Goeppner

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Educational Coaches and Peer Mentors:  Recruitment & Training to Support All College Students Pfahl Hall 302

Bill Bauer; Diane Clouse; Mallory Workman

Session C: “Scenes of Subjection”: Disability, Race, and the Spectacle of Black Suffering  Pfahl Hall 140

Nirmala Erevelles

 

12:30pm–1:45pm - Lunch & Information Exchange Blackwell Hotel Ballrooms

 

2:00pm–3:30pm - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: College Students with Disabilities and Campus Climate:  A Report from the NCCSD  Pfahl Hall 302

Wendy Harbour & Daniel Greenberg

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Transition Planning to Support Success in Postsecondary Programs Pfahl Hall 340

Mandy Mernedakis; Jackie Teny-Miller

Session C: Disrupting the Landscape of Higher Education:  A Discussion about Building Collective Anti-Ableist Praxis Accountability Across Communities  Pfahl Hall 140

Elisa Abes; Sarah Camino: Anna Hill; Courtney Hineman: Ashley Johnson; Molly Kelly; Michelle Wallace; Megan Zahneis

 
3:45pm–6:30pm - Ken Campbell Memorial Lecture Pfahl Hall 140

presented by Chai Feldblum, EEOC Commissioner

Followed by Student Poster Presentations. Free and Open to the Public.

 

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
9:00am–10:30am - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Teaching/Learning Audio Description:  Bringing Together Digital Media Studies and Disability Studies  Pfahl Hall 140

Erin Kathleen Bahl; Ashley Emanuel; Perry Meyer; Margaret Price; Kaleigh Robbins

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Be Prepared to Lead:  Directing Your Path to Employment and Independence  Pfahl Hall 340

Christine Brown; Dana Charlton; Diane Clouse

Session C: Resistant Practices:  Early Childhood Education and Artful Advocacy from Neurodiversity Perspectives  Pfahl Hall 302

Melody Latimer; Robin Roscigno; DJ Savarese; Anna Williams

10:45am–12:15pm - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: First HIRES and Employment of Those on the Autism Spectrum  Pfahl Hall 140

Jennifer Murchison; Amanda Rodino

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Understanding Healthy Sexuality  Pfahl Hall 340

Olivia Calderia

Session C: Locating Disability Studies in Academic, Social Movements, Research, and Parenting  Pfahl Hall 302

Kylie Boazman; Gia Super; Shruti Vaidya; Kelly Vaughan; Sheri Wells-Jensen

 

12:30pm–1:45pm - Lunch & Information Exchange  Blackwell Hotel Ballrooms

 

2:00pm–2:45pm - Concurrent Sessions
Session A: Digital Access:  Considerations in Design Purchase  Pfahl Hall 302

Peter Bossley; Kathryn Braidic

Session B: THINK COLLEGE: Take Charge:  Getting Involved in Campus Life  Pfahl Hall 340

Mallory Workman

Session C: Vulnerability and Storytelling: Transforming Classroom and Campus Communities  Pfahl Hall 140

Amanda Apgar; Laura Eisenman; Mana Hayakawa; Ariel Hernandez

 
3:45 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture  Blackwell Hotel Ballrooms

Presented by artist Riva Lehrer and author Nicola Griffith.  Free and open to the public.