New ASU (Arizona State University) degree program to provide more nuanced understanding of disability

Sly Saint · Oct 18, 2019

The Disabilities Studies program is one of only a few full degree programs like it, and it is open to students of all majors.

“Not only do we want to attract students who want to study disability studies exclusively, but also folks who might be interested in a concurrent degree with their particular areas of expertise — whether that’s architecture, civil engineering or teaching — because we need to forge a society where we have professionals in all different areas of expertise that have this awareness and bring it to their practice.”
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Q: What’s an example of an invisible disability?

Friedrich: Chronic fatigue syndrome. Chronic fatigue syndrome is also known as “ME,” which stands for myalgic encephalomyelitis. is an example of an invisible disability. But something that caught my attention recently in a medical school text was the language it used when talking about conversion disorder. (Conversion disorder is a mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis or other neurologic symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.) The text said something about the need to separate symptoms of conversion disorder from “genuine” seizures. And I thought, what kind of message are you sending to a person who is experiencing these physiological phenomena if you're saying that there is a legitimate condition and the other is imagined? So when we talk about changing the environment around disability, we need to remember to change the language that we use to refer to people’s experiences so that it is respectful of those experiences.
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https://asunow.asu.edu/20191017-sol...provide-more-nuanced-understanding-disability

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