Inclusion of Disability Within the Spectrum of Diversity.
After developing friendships over the past several years with a couple fellow accounting professors who are at Gallaudet University (school for the deaf in D.C. - chartered by Lincoln in 1864), I ended up doing a paper on this topic with one of them. (The rest of the title is “and the Implications for Accounting Education.”) The history of how disability is isolated from other diversity aspects is interesting ..and discouraging. The high percentage of disability, such as in higher ed, is surprising. The conceptual breadth of “disability” is relevant - the visible and invisible disabilities. We have a need to move from a medical model (you have a disability! We need to focus on your problem) to a social model (individuals have impairments …the disability arises from society’s barriers).
The implication gets into universal design for education, which would be a TED Talk all of its own.
