Sentences with word «ableist»

Parents of kids with special needs already have to deal with living in an outwardly ableist culture, in which neighbors immediately equate your kid's ramp with devaluing their home.

Hehir examines ableist practices through a discussion of the history of and research pertaining to the education of deaf students, students who are blind or visually impaired, and students with learning disabilities, particularly dyslexia.

The central comparison underlying the duty to accommodate is with regard to the disproportionately disparate effects of ableist norms and practices on persons with disabilities, as compared with persons without disabilities.

To counter ableist assumptions, Hehir recommends that educators base special education decisions on the following definition of the purpose of special education: minimizing the impact of disability and maximizing the opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in schooling and the community.

Rather, it is that ableist norms are dominant, and assumed to be deservedly so.

Studies have found that physicians are profoundly ableist in judging the quality of life of their patients; they often discount the worth of the disabled.

His actions can be taken as ableist microagressons against slower, smaller, less talented players and if your going to be consistant here his free speech ends where my right to not watch TD dances begins.

We need to talk about undersupply, not just because it's a reality for so many people, but because the myth that it is rare and that almost anyone can breastfeed is really ableist, privileged, and anti-feminist.

It is seriously ableist to expect people to achieve an ideal that they literally can't meet, but our society does this all of the time.

The gloves really started to come off on both sides with racist, sizeist, and ableist commentary, accusations that people were being bad mothers, and a host of other things.

Similarly, [Professor Tom] Hehir's course on inclusive education exposed me to how deeply ableist practices have been embedded into our schools and color our expectations for students with disabilities.

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

Page - sniffers who dismiss ebooks out of hand are being unconsciously ableist.

Because for those of us who are marginalized, who are impacted by anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, sexist, racist, ableist policies, we have no other choice.

But when such a large potion of horror games rely on the «mentally ill people are scary» trope, you wonder what it is about mental health that terrifies these game developers so much to keep churning out so many ableist titles.

«Elitist, ableist sexist and gender - essentialist values about presenting oneself in particular ways are not simply facts of law school life.

Although none of the members are men, Kelly says they're certainly welcome to join Make Lemonade, as long as they adhere to an «inclusivity mandate» that bans «sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, classist or otherwise discriminatory language.»

, tried to fight off her attacker (an act proven to be pointless, not to mention it's an ableist suggestion in the first place (doesn't take people with physical or mental disabilities into consideration)-RRB-, didn't let her rapist in (even though most rape victims know their attackers)-- she wouldn't have been raped.

Neither sexists, nor racists, nor ageists, nor looksists, nor ableists shall inherit the People's Republic of God.

Is it «ableist» and offensive to wish someone free from the constraints of a physical disability?

It is, of course, a fantastical assumption, and an ableist one as well.

There are so many reasons we have to stop romanticizing childbirth, mainly because it's not healthy, it's ableist, it's dangerous, and it's seriously anti-feminist.

Don't be ableist.

To suggest otherwise is ableist.

Chancellor Kent Syverud called the Theta Tau video «racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, ableist and sexist» in a video posted on the university's website.

Chancellor Kent Syverud called the Theta Tau video «racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, ableist and sexist» in a video posted on...

«#ScienceMarch also represents a tragic lost opportunity to do better than science's racist, sexist, ableist, colonialist, oppressive past,» she tweeted.

Calling for an increase in research and scholarly inquiry into the effects of ableist assumptions on educating students with disabilities, Hehir offers suggestions for immediate efforts to begin overturning ableist practices.

(For example: «Do not advocate for your issue in ways that are racist, sexist, heterosexist, cissexist, sizeist, ableist, ageist, classist, etc.»)

I'm pretty sure somebody on Tumblr has already declared that Zelda animation to be sexist or ableist or something.

This is akin to when games writers want to paint a gritty atmosphere and use 101 racist, ableist, or heterosexist epithets as a means of circumventing actual world building.

Her posts are thoughtful, intelligent, and deeper - reaching than most I've seen, i.e. the intersection of zero waste and minimalism, asking whether zero waste is ableist, etc..

As our analysis did not help inform public discourse, the conclusions reached often were skewed by an ableist bias.

So if you're also happy to see Rob Ford go there's no need to be ableist or anti-fat about it.

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