Am I the curriculum?
Zisk, A. H. (2023). Am I the curriculum? In Disability as Meta Curriculum (pp. 17-30). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003252313-2
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When we consider disability and the curriculum, we usually mean preparing professionals to work with people with disabilities or including students with disabilities. Here, I provide a personal description of these ideas colliding. It's Fall 2017, and I'm taking a course on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). That means it's about disability, or really, about certain services for people with disabilities. My classmates are studying to be speech language pathologists. I'm Autistic, and I use AAC part time because I can sometimes, but not always, speak. I'm the first AAC user to take this class. As we go through, the professor keeps saying how much they're learning from me, as an AAC user. So: am I the curriculum or the student? Am I both? Could I be a teacher? As I work on and eventually publish my class project, an overview of AAC use by speaking autistic adults, am I the object of research or the researcher? Am I both?
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