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+====There are two major ableist DA’s to your performance: ==== |
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+====First, while poetry has a lot of individual value, it is frequently inaccessible to many with learning disabilities. Whether it is a difficulty conceptually pictilizing concert metaphors and ironic disjunction or like my coach difficulty with meter and non-standard sentence structure, many learning disabilities make understanding and following poetry extremely difficult. There are ways that poetry can be used as method of personal liberation, even from learning disabilities, however, we should not force students to engage with it, especially as a survival strategy. It is those expectations that drive individuals with learning disabilities out of communities.==== |
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+ Philip **Schultz** ~~a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who struggles with dyslexia~~.. "Words Failed, Then Saved Me." Sunday Review, NYTimes. September 3rd 2011. |
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+So this summer’s…passion, not survival. |
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+====These linguistic considerations matter. ==== |
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+Lydia **Brown** ~~I am autistic, disabled, and proud! I have a variety of experience in grassroots organizing, public policy advocacy, and outreach on disability rights issues. Policy Analyst for ASAN. "Violence in Language: Circling Back to Linguistic Ableism." 2/11/2014. AutisticHOYA. |
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+As important as…the same process. |
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+====We must recognize the discourse and representations that debaters bring into the round. All else ignores the exclusion that so many non-privileged debaters feel here. That’s a prior question because it affects the ways debaters can even engage in a discussion. ==== |
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+Christopher **Vincent 2013**, Debate Coach, former college NDT debater "Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate" http://victorybriefs.com/vbd/2013/10/re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate. |
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+In his chapter…community could have. |