[rehab] Fw: [ACBS] Fwd: Fwd: call for student writing: New Voices: Students Sharing Their Experiences with Disabilities

[Anmol Bhatia]

I just wanted to forward this incase if anyone would be interested in contributing to this.
I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
Hellen Keller


--- On Fri, 4/27/12, Laura Glowacki, ACBS First Vice President <firstvicepresident.acbstudents at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Laura Glowacki, ACBS First Vice President <firstvicepresident.acbstudents at gmail.com>
> Subject: [ACBS] Fwd: Fwd: call for student writing: New Voices: Students Sharing Their Experiences with Disabilities
> To: "Discussion list for NABS National Alliance of Blind Students." <nabs at acb.org>
> Date: Friday, April 27, 2012, 12:06 PM
> A chance to make your voice heard!
> 
> 
> New Voices:
> Students Sharing Their Experiences with Disabilities
> Edited by Leila Monaghan, Alison Quaggin and Michelle
> Jarman
> Introduction by Michelle Jarman
> 
> One of the most important aspects of teaching Disability
> Studies is how we
> empower our students with disabilities or those with close
> connections to
> people with disabilities to speak about their experiences in
> thoughtful and
> reflective ways.  This is a call for short chapters
> from students
> (traditional and non-traditional) writing about their own
> experiences with
> disabilities including how their views have been changed by
> Disability
> Studies scholarship.  We are looking for a diverse
> range of papers
> reflecting all kinds of disabilities from urban, suburban
> and rural
> perspectives.  Topics will include (but are not limited
> to) living with
> physical, sensory and mental disabilities; disabilities and
> the family; and
> disabilities at school and in workplace including the impact
> of disabilities
> on military members and their families; and the impact of
> technology on the
> lives of people with disabilities.  Papers should be
> written in a clear,
> accessible and personal style.  The book is intended to
> for use in
> introductory Disability Studies classes to fill the gap
> between single
> individual memoirs and formal textbooks.
> 
> If you are a student interested in participating or have a
> student paper you
> wish to suggest for submission, please drop a note to Leila
> at
> Leila.Monaghan at gmail.com 
> as soon as possible.  Papers should be 5-15 pages.
> Papers are due May 15, 2012 atLeila.Monaghan at gmail.com   but
> we are happy to
> comment on draft versions or abstracts of papers. We will
> notify
> participants of official acceptance sometime in June.
> 
> Leila Monaghan
> Leila.Monaghan at gmail.com
> Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WInD)
> University of Wyoming
> Disability Studies
> University of Maryland, University College (UMUC)
> 
> ABILITIES is an email list providing relevant information
> and resources to
> students who have registered with the Disability Resource
> Center of the
> University of Illinois at Chicago.  Please contact me,
> Kevin Price, if you
> have any questions, concerns, or content for this email
> list.
> 
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