Relational Pedagogies of Disability: Cognitive Accessibility in College Classrooms

Disability in the classroom

“…This implies that the dominant focus to look at disability is on (early) detection, categorisation, intervention, and remediation. Research also indicates that students with learning and behavioural disabilities withdraw from post-secondary education at higher rates than their non-disabled peers, the situation for students with psychiatric diagnoses is even more complex (Jarman and Thompson-Ebanks, 2020 ). Margaret Price (2011) argues that the very expectations of educational systems are set up in a way to exclude or at least create barriers for many students with (invisible) disabilities.…”