Papers by Ann Fudge Schormans
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disabili... more This paper describes how four ‘helping’ professionals came to embrace and teach critical disability studies (CDS) perspectives rather than biomedical approaches to impairment and disability that traditionally inform those professions (occupational therapy, physiotherapy, social work, and speech-language pathology). Sharing examples from our experiences, we describe how we came to question the normative, ableist assumptions of our professional disciplines. We then briefly outline literature demonstrating how critical approaches have been incorporated into professional research and practice and discuss possible obstacles and tensions in adopting more widespread critical approaches into professional spaces. We conclude by suggesting that continued development of connections among scholars and activists within CDS, rehabilitation and social work, and the community, is necessary to ensure that intersectional critical perspectives in relation to disability become a core component of profe...
Disability & Society, 2016
This is a repository copy of 'Some people are not allowed to love': intimate citizenship in the l... more This is a repository copy of 'Some people are not allowed to love': intimate citizenship in the lives of people labelled with intellectual disabilities.
The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, 2021
In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability ... more In this chapter, we suggest that crip theory is a productive way of bridging critical disability studies and the sociology of sexualities.We concur with Goodley’s (2014) claim that “queer and disability studies have the potential to unsettle one another and fnd shared vocabularies” (p. 38). Drawing on some of the major works and implications of crip theory, we suggest directions for its further development and demonstrate how this theoretical approach is uniquely positioned
to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.
Australian Social Work, 2010
... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to... more ... with intellectual disabilities have to say, the study provided a space for labelled people to critique public photographic images and challenge the taken-for-granted “truths” of disability inscribed in them ... Disability and Society , 15: 747–764 ... Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ...
International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 2016
The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
Recent teaching and learning scholarship has documented the importance of uncovering and removing... more Recent teaching and learning scholarship has documented the importance of uncovering and removing barriers to learning experienced by students with disabilities (e.g., Cook, Rumrill, & Tankersley, 2009). At the same time, in Ontario, new legislation is making this issue especially pronounced. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA, 2005), mandates universal access for persons with disabilities, requiring the removal of barriers to their full participation in all aspects of society, including higher education. This article reports on the first phase of a larger project designed to collect qualitative data about the effects of the AODA legislation on the teaching and learning environment at one University. Building on previous work that investigates students with disabilities' experiences of tertiary learning (e.g., , it reports on the results of semistructured interviews that explored the ways in which students with and without disabilities, instructors, administrators, and staff perceive the relative accessibility and inclusiveness of teaching and learning at this institution, with an eye to ultimately enhancing learning for all students.
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Papers by Ann Fudge Schormans
to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.
to contribute to both critical disability and sexualities studies. On one hand, crip theory sheds light on theoretical tools that disability studies scholars can use to understand the ways disabled people experience and negotiate their intimate lives through a multi-level analytic approach. On the other hand, it suggests disability studies insights that can contribute to theoretical perspectives in sexualities studies. To do so, we contextualize this discussion in relation to the sexualities of people labelled/with intellectual disabilities (ID), a disability label that appears to complicate questions of sexualities.