"How we're giving adaptations or access or support matters more to the students in my study than the labeling of the disability itself" This entire conversation with @naemmanuele.bsky.social was full of reminders of how we can/need to be better for students. (Comes out tomorrow morning!)
"So there wasn't stigma among the students I spoke with so much about having a disability, right? It's, oh, I have a reading disability. This is what I think about myself because of it. That was clearly not the case, which surprised me. I thought a disability stigma, as we see in the literature, would be a thing. For these students, it was how adaptations were given. The clearest story of this was one of the students in my study said, she was, I was in middle school and I was in, maybe it was a history class, and the teachers told the whole class, like, you know, we're going to take a test. Some people are going to have the test right out loud. There's nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly fine. So when you see people leave, you know, it's fine. It's just what some people need. All right, we're going to start the test. You test right out the door. She said it was like terrifying. You just literally set it all up and just sent me off to have my test, right? And then some people ask questions and you have to follow up with those questions. And so it was this idea that how we're giving adaptations or access or support mattered more to the students in my study than the labeling of the disability itself."
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"How we're giving adaptations or access or support matters more to the students in my study than the labeling of the disability itself" This entire conversation with @naemmanuele.bsky.social was full of reminders of how we can/need to be better for students. (Comes out tomorrow morning!)