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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Separate thread for a separate topic: Single-Subjects Research Design<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As faculty keep leaving my PhD program, the course offerings are getting really thin. It looks like I’ll be able to take a course in single-subjects research design, so I’ve been reading about it. I am trying to figure out if or how such
a research design will be useful. I understand that Applied Behavioral Analysis practitioners use it a lot, which is what the professor is. I also hear that the autistic community rails on ABA as ableist. I want to give this professor and this course a chance,
but I also have my own goals and want to be sure that I’m getting as far along in them as possible.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am a justice-oriented, budding researcher in blindness education, and I know that the reductionism or otherwise hyperfocusing on one person can be a part of epistemic violence. I’m feeling resistant to taking this course because I worry
that such methods would not help me with the big picture liberation of the blind if I’m just focusing on one individual blind person for an entire quantitative study where I just measure the heck of out one person. It sounds very much like the assessment-heavy
approach to blind rehab in what President Riccobono calls “the vision-centered approach.” Maybe there’s a way to make that work liberatory for the blind. On the other hand, maybe I could do studies where I measure the effectiveness of an immersion experience
in the blind community, where the subject is a sighted person. I don’t know. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m putting this out on this list because I’m asking you all to tell me if my hesitation is wrong, unfounded, or just coming from incomplete information. Maybe my hesitation is right. I’m curious what you all will say.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Justin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Justin MH Salisbury (he/him)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Graduate Student<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Department of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">College of Education and Social Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The University of Vermont<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Email: <a href="mailto:Justin.Salisbury@UVM.edu">
<span style="color:blue">Justin.Salisbury@UVM.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Website: <a href="https://www.uvm.edu/cess/cdci/profiles/justin-mark-hideaki-salisbury-he/him/his">
<span style="color:blue">https://www.uvm.edu/cess/cdci/profiles/justin-mark-hideaki-salisbury-he/him/his</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Elie Weisel, Acceptance Speech, Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, 1986<o:p></o:p></p>
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