What is it about?

This chapter focuses on life after hire to empower faculty members with disabilities to utilize ongoing strategies for boosting collegiality and long-term success in academe. It explores how colleagues can work together, even informally, to maximize the potential of one who teaches with disability. The lack of published studies that focus on circumstances surrounding teaching with disability in higher education and the results of studies in other fields underscore the need for such interaction. Self-disclosure—especially for those with a hidden disability—is a personal choice, and one that comes with risks. In order to explore the topic of disability, self-disclosure, and collegiality further, the chapter utilizes a brief study that involved 119 educators with disabilities. Self-disclosure occurred between faculty and students more often than between faculty. Self-disclosure to colleagues may be viewed as providing those colleagues the chance to engage in able-bodied privilege and shaming.

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"The value of this collection lies in the underlying foundation and principle of a nothing about us without us approach by the editor, Michael S. Jeffress in collating contributions that effectively highlight scholars in the field who are leading the way in challenging the status quo of disability and curriculum design in higher education. These scholars illuminate the pathway for further reform in disability studies and for transforming the higher education environment. The pedagogical strategies suggested in the book may be adapted and also useful in many other courses in the higher education environment. Pedagogy, Disability and Communication is essential reading and a valuable resource for scholars, students, and researchers who value practical examples of pedagogy supported by theoretical underpinnings which challenge notions of disability through their curriculum and ultimately co-create new understandings and meanings of disability in higher education courses." Dr Satine Winter, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia

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Table of Contents: Preface (Michael S. Jeffress) Chapter 1: Disability Studies in the Communication Ethics Classroom: Pedagogies of Justice and Voice (Joy M. Cypher) Chapter 2: Creating a College Course on Communication and Disability (Elaine Bass Jenks) Chapter 3: Exploring Communication between the Differently Abled and the Temporarily Able-Bodied in a Special Topics Course (J. W. Smith, Stephanie Döhling, and Katherine Rush) Chapter 4: Incorporating Disability Studies into the Communication Classroom through a High Impact Engagement Nonverbal Communication Assignment (Paula K. Baldwin and Michael S. Jeffress) Chapter 5: Sexuality and People with Disabilities: A Workshop within an Interpersonal Communication Course (Kaori Miyawaki, Kate Ksobiech, Suzen Wildermuth, and Elizabeth Houtz) Chapter 6: Reframing the Gender Communication Classroom: Utilizing Disability Pedagogy (Brian Grewe, Jr.) Chapter 7: Bodies of Dis-Ease: Towards the Re-Conception of "Health" in Health Communication (Andrew Spieldenner and Elena Anadolis) Chapter 8: Disability Cultures and the Intercultural Communication Course (Alberto González and Andrew Donofrio) Chapter 9: Disability and Communication in the Virtual Classroom (Michael G. Strawser) Chapter 10: Eyes Wide Open: Student Involvement in ASD Research and TBI Critical Experiential Learning in a Media Literacy Class (Laura C. Farrell and Ginnifer L. Mastarone) Chapter 11: Enhancing Campus Accessibility: A Disability Studies Approach to Teaching Technical Communication (Rebecca Miner) Chapter 12: Exploring the Intersection of Ableism, Image Building and Hegemonic Masculinity in the Political Communication Classroom (Emily Stones) Chapter 13: Unleashing Disability Perspectives in the Public Speaking Course (Bettina Brockmann and Michael S. Jeffress)

Dr Michael S Jeffress
Medical University of the Americas

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315099941-17.
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