Sentences with word «ableism»

Employers should review the Commission's policy position and Policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability and assess whether their current policies and practices are in compliance.

For 2018's Cape Town Art fair, Luanda - based artist Keyezua will show a series addressing ableism in a poetic...

xavi joined us to speak about ableism within the animal advocacy community, and about links between veganism, anarchy, and the queer liberation movement.

We've just added ableism as one of the segments as well.

Sadly, many people have felt this ad promoting World Down Syndrome Day promotes ableism and they miss the complete point of the ad.

In between late - night Latin translation marathons, Piro helped organize Harvard's first ever Disability Pride Week, a series of conversations and events aimed at dismantling ableism.

04, principal of the Atlanta Charter Middle School in Atlanta, Ga., who took courses with Hehir, says that in order to avoid ableism, the mindset in their school is that that everyone has learning differences.

Thomas Hehir («Confronting Ableism,» p. 8) suggests that the goal of special education is to «minimize the impact of disability and maximize the opportunity for students with disabilities to participate in schooling and the community.»

Society's pervasive negative attitude about disability — which the author terms ableism — often makes the world an unwelcoming and inaccessible place for disabled people.

As an ethics scholar in rehabilitation counseling, much of his scholarship on ethics has targeted distributive justice issues and therefore his scholarship on ethical obligations has focused on the importance of promoting resilience and of advocating against ableism or the preference for able - bodiedness.

This policy position supplements and reaffirms section 8.7 of the Commission's Policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability, which was released in September 2016.

Hehir says that ableism in schools also takes time away from actual learning.

This being 2018, the conversation about ableism is now well - developed, and we now know that many readers pick up travel books to empower them, and to enable them to experience the world in a way that maybe they couldn't otherwise.

«The Concerned Asian, Black, Latin @, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently - Abled students at Dartmouth College» storm President Phil Hanlon's office with a list of seventy counts of «racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and ableism,» of which, they claim, the college is guilty.

My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a planned «March for Science» had tweeted that «colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer -, trans -, intersex - phobia, & econ justice are scientific issues [black power emoji][rainbow emoji].»

My friends who work in scientific fields were aghast when they saw that the organizers of a planned «March for Science» had tweeted that «colonization, racism, immigration, native rights, sexism, ableism, queer -, trans -, intersex - phobia, & econ justice are scientific issues [black power....

Throughout her career, Stubblefield had declared her opposition to «ableism» — the prejudice that assumes humans have dignity only to the extent that they possess certain abilities — but she also consistently succumbed to it.

All the usual intersectional suspects are there: racism, ableism, transphobia, and for good measure «every other oppressive system that makes its way into the bedroom» — just to make sure that no bigot should feel excluded or marginalized.

I judge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, and I judge negative attitudes about the wholeness and value of children and their self - worth.

Ableism — a set of practices and beliefs that assign inferior value (worth) to people who have developmental, emotional, physical or psychiatric disabilities...

Over nine sessions, a stellar list of guest speakers will cover social justice basics, racism, oppression, the US prison system, ableism, gender and much more.

«There are typical themes that cut across all of the dilemmas the Youth Advisory Board members shared about relationships and loyalty and rules, but the examples that they gave — of drinking and texting and racism and homophobia and transphobia and ableism — we wouldn't have known how to put together.»

«I ask how they'd react to racism, ethnic and religious intolerance, or ableism.

Referred to as «ableism,» this form of discrimination devalues disabilities, Hehir writes in Special Education for a New Century.

At the Askwith Forums on Thursday, October 6, «Life, Animated: Autism, Ableism, and Educators,» Pulitzer Prize - winner and Harvard Law School Lecturer Ron Suskind will speak about his experience raising an autistic son and how education and public policy can better serve Americans with disabilities.

Ableism, «the devaluation of disability,» can «result in societal attitudes that uncritically assert that it is better for a child to walk than roll, speak than sign, read print than read Braille, spell independently than use a spell - check, and hang out with nondisabled kids as opposed to other disabled kids.»

In «Eliminating Ableism in Education,» Harvard Graduate School of Education lecturer Thomas Hehir describes the effects of ableism in education and outlines ways to begin improving educational outcomes for students with disabilities.

Microaggressions can be rooted in implicit biases or stereotypes related (but not limited) to racism, nationalism, heterosexism, transphobia, ableism, sexism, sizeism, marital status, and religious stereotypes.

But in a patriarchal, racist, homophobic, and ableist society, there are social pressures to participate and engage in sexism, racism, homophobia, and ableism.

Hopefully subsequent research will continue to build on this so that people can understand topics like racism, sexism, poverty, ableism, heterosexism, and cissexism, and the marginalization and oppression they produce as functions of structure and society rather than personal responsibility.

Most of (what I consider) progressive horror games, come mainly from the indie games industry, which isn't surprising since it's clear that ableism in games sells way too much for triple A dev teams to give up on.

Ableism is often a blind spot with many people, so I don't expect this comment will be popular; but to see it from Jim is disappointing, «irrational» though it may be.

We would like to thank the developers of Western Australia who are working to improve the industry, and who stand against racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and any other form of discrimination.

Mr. Heir explicitly clarified that social injustice within gaming is not limited to a particular minority but includes «misogyny, sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, ageism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and other types of social injustice.»

It grows from the same cultural and economic roots as systemic racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia.

Privilege, Faith and the Law; Ableism — Perspectives from the Deaf Community; Class and Puerto Rican identity.

Workers in BC should be able to work without fear of sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and other forms of discrimination.

BU Law's Brenda Hernandez, Associate Director for Diversity & Inclusion, wrote me that Critical Conversations invites participation from students, faculty, and staff and has tackled difficult and complex subjects such as Privilege, Faith and the Law; Ableism — Perspectives from the Deaf Community; Class and Puerto Rican identity.

For immediate release — March 28, 2017 VANCOUVER — Today, West Coast LEAF is at the Supreme Court of Canada to maintain that workers should be able to work without fear of sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and other Read More

«Accommodation providers must attempt to help a person who is clearly unwell or perceived to have a disability by inquiring further to see if the person has needs related to a disability and offering assistance and accommodation,» according to the OHRC's Policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability.

The OHRC's Policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability policy on ableism and discrimination based on disability, released in September 2016, updated the policy and guidelines on disability and the duty to accommodate of 2001; at 99 pages, it is two and a half times as long as the version released 15 years earlier.

The updated Policy on Ableism and Discrimination based on Disability establishes that «disability» is a broad and constantly evolving term under section 10 of the Ontario Human Rights Code («Code»).

Mangat continued, «Workers in BC are entitled to go to work without fear of sexism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and other forms of discrimination.

Both the Policy on Ableism and Discrimination based on Disability and the Policy on Drug and Alcohol Testing provide timely guidance for employers facing a range of human rights obligations in the workplace.

On Thursday, September 29, 2016, the Ontario Human Rights Commission («OHRC») launched the OHRC's Policy on Ableism and Discrimination based on Disability.

The Policy reminds employers that ableism is an underlying attitude which must be remedied in the workplace.