Am I the curriculum?

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Zisk, A. H. (2019). Am I the curriculum? Curriculum Inquiry, 49(4), 373-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2019.1664255

Publication date: 8 Aug 2019 Added to AutiHub: 7 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Alyssa Hillary Zisk *

Abstract

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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4 / 36 (11.1%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
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7 / 48 (14.6%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 41 / 48 (85.4%) names are not yet linked.
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5 / 48 (10.4%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 5 / 7 (71.4%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 3 / 46 (6.5%).
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