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Journal articles on the topic "Fiction, disabilities"

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Gajewska, Grażyna. "Ciała protetyczne w anglosaskich utworach fantastycznonaukowych. Ujęcie posthumanistyczne." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 34, no. 43 (2023): 319–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2023.34.43.21.

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   The author analyzes the images of disability in science fiction literary and film. She begins by identifying areas common to science fiction–disability studies–posthumanism. She goes on to argue that in science fiction we can find stereotypical images of people with disabilities, which are based on a culturally established dichotomy: healthy, functional (as normal) versus disabled (as abnormal), and such performances that escape this dichotomy and normalization. The author distinguishes several approaches to presenting disability in science fiction: hypervisibility combine

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Corrice, April M., and Laraine Masters Glidden. "The Down Syndrome Advantage: Fact or Fiction?" American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 114, no. 4 (2009): 254–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-114.4.254-268.

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Abstract The “Down syndrome advantage” is the popular conception that children with Down syndrome are easier to rear than children with other developmental disabilities. We assessed whether mothers of children with developmental disabilities would demonstrate a consistent Down syndrome advantage as their children aged from 12 to 18 years. Results did not reveal significant differences between mothers of children with Down syndrome and mothers of children with other developmental disabilities on most maternal functioning variables. Although the prior group reported a consistent advantage in ter

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Iyer, Anupama. "Depiction of intellectual disability in fiction." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 13, no. 2 (2007): 127–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.106.002485.

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I explore some of the ways in which intellectual disability (learning disability) is depicted in fiction. My premise is that literature both reflects and shapes societal attitudes to people in this vulnerable minority group. People with intellectual disabilities are seldom able to determine, confirm or counter narratives about themselves. This situation, in which the subject is fundamentally unable to participate in their representation, raises unique ethical considerations. I use examples from various English-language novels to discuss how subjective accounts, observable behaviours and physic

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TOWNSEND WALKER, BRENDA L. "Sixty Years After Brown v. Board of Education: Legal and Policy Fictions in School Desegregation, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and No Child Left Behind." Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners 14, no. 2 (2014): 41–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.56829/2158-396x.14.2.41.

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The Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Supreme Court decision ruled that segregated schools were unequal and unconstitutional. Since Brown's ruling, scholars have questioned whether African American children have benefitted from school desegregation and subsequent school reform initiatives. In spite of several post-Brown school reform movements, the achievement gap persistently impacts African American learners including those with, or likely to be labeled with, disabilities. Thus, this article examines several legal and policy fictions inherent in Brown, the Individuals with Disabilities Educ

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Chisti, Das, and Sangita Sahoo Soumya. "Men and Masculinity in Contemporary Fiction." Criterion: An International Journal in English 15, no. 3 (2024): 409–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12671850.

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The misconception that males are the dominating sex puts pressure on them to live up to the roles and expectations that are placed upon them in order to fit in with society and become the perfect man. A lot of discrimination, marginalisation, and suppression of boys and men occurs as a result of the pressure from society to be the ideal sort. Since different people have distinct ideas about what masculinity entails, there are varying perceptions of what masculinity is. In contrast to masculinity, disability historically has been associated with helplessness, weakness, and dependency. A disable

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KRAVETS, NINA, and IRYNA MATIUSHCHENKO. "THE INFLUENCE OF FICTION ON SOCIALIZATION OF STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES." Scientific Issues of Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University. Series: pedagogy 1, no. 2 (2021): 171–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.21.2.22.

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The views aimed at the stability of socialization are analyzed, paying attention to the peculiarities of psychophysical development of students with intellectual disabilities, which leads to a weakening of socialization. Difficulty in socialization depends on the presence of a navigator of mispersonal communication, unformed needs in such communication, inadequacy of self-esteem, negative perception of other people. It is noted that the effectiveness of primary socialization of students with intellectual disabilities affects the formation of its components: socio-psychological adaptation and e

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Sare, Margie. "The Depiction of Disability in Children’s Literature: Changes for the Better, with Particular Attention to Three New Titles; Mama Zooms (Cowen-Fletcher, 1993), The Race (Mattingley, 1995), and No Time At All (Sallis, 1994)." Australasian Journal of Special Education 20, no. 2 (1996): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1030011200023721.

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Children’s literature has the power and potential to reflect societal attitudes. Changes in attitudes towards disability in Western literature can be traced by “turning the pages” through the history of children’s books. This paper addresses issues concerning children’s literature published during the past few decades. Have there been improvements since Baskin and Harris’ (1977) major review of children’s fiction depicting characters with disabilities written between 1940 and 1977? This study revealed that stereotypical portrayals of characters with disabilities were common. Furthermore, have

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Snyder Broussard, Mary. "Dead Collections." Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 19, no. 2 (2025): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v19i2.8117.

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Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections: A Novel (2022) portrays a fictional archivist Sol, who experiences chronic illness in the form of vampirism. While he experiences many symptoms including cold skin and reliance on weekly blood transfusions, it is his life-threatening photophobia (aversion to sunlight) that becomes a serious impairment to commuting to and from work. While Sol and his vampirism are clearly works of fiction, the novel accurately depicts working in libraries with a chronic illness. This article compares and connects the fictional story in Dead Collections to the growing body of li

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Rankin, Joanna. "Novel Conversations: Connecting With Disability in Three Examples of Popular Fiction." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 7, no. 3 (2018): 52–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v7i3.451.

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Examining how readers of popular fiction respond to characters with disabilities and characters immersed in the lives of characters with disabilities, this paper serves to contribute to understandings of the meanings that readers ascribe to disability in popular culture using the public sphere of online discussion. Specifically, I study online reader discussion of three characters, namely: Trudi in Ursula Hegi’s (1996) Stones from the River, Icy in Gwyn Hyman Rubio’s (1998) Icy Sparks and Jewel in Brett Lott’s (1991) Jewel. I present findings from my analysis of reader discussion using readers

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O'Hanlon, Grace. "Early twentieth century women reading through disability and illness: Letters to Canadian novelist Ralph Connor." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 12, no. 2 (2023): 152–76. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v12i2.1014.

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Ralph Connor was a well-known novelist in the first decade of the twentieth century. Many people read his popular fiction novels around the world. Perhaps owing to his popularity and penchant for keeping correspondence, his collected papers, held the Archives and Special Collections at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, include over six hundred fan letters. I examined these letters with the intention of exploring women’s responses to popular fiction of the era and the reasons they were reading. As I read the letters, a recurring theme emerged in letters penned by women: they descr

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fiction, disabilities"

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Russell, Emily S. "Embodied citizenship disability in the national imagination /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383482921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Haskins, Ryan. "The Never-Knowns." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5792.

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The Never-Knowns is a novel about a high-intensity behavioral group home for adults with severe to profound developmental disabilities, its residents, and the staff who are employed there. Focusing on plural protagonists, no single narrative is ever fully realized or resolved, leaving only a cryptic aggregate of experiences, revelations, and trauma. In a typical suburban neighborhood, much like any of us grew up in or now live, there is a house down the block that no one discusses openly. This house seems like all the rest, well landscaped and tidy. Although three times a day much coming an

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Walker, Gore Clare Helen. "Plotting disability : physical difference, characterisation, and the form of the novel, 1837-1907." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709332.

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Yorke, Stephanie. "Disability, normalcy, and the failures of the nation : a reading of selected fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:50a3e631-419f-490a-9995-f0fa511e5688.

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This thesis is a study of representations of disability in a selection of Anglophone Indian literature written between 1981 and 2006. In this thesis, I argue that, in fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga, disability often takes on positive symbolic value as it represents the potential for the postcolonial polis to survive and thrive, but that the ultimate death or medical normalisation of disabled characters in many of these narratives is tied to a loss of political optimism. While these texts in many instances disturb norms surrounding able-bodiedness and

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Haugen, Hayley Mitchell. "Writing the "self-determined" life representing the self in disability narratives by Leonard Kriegel and Nancy Mairs /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1147369805.

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Urban, Abbey N. "Presentation and Representation of Characters with Disabilities in Fictional Children's Books for Intermediate Grades." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394114909.

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Mims, Pamela J., and Carol Stanger. "ELA Instruction for Students with Significant Disabilities: Fictional Novels Taught Through an iPad App." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/192.

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This presentation will inform participants on three studies targeting teaching Middle School ELA skills via an App to students with significant disabilities. Based on results of 3 single case studies, participants will learn about supports to make accessing the general curriculum motivating and easy to use while promoting best practices. Learner Outcomes: • This presentation will provide an interactive session on the use of the iPad app for use in grade aligned ELA instruction for students with significant disabilities from diverse backgrounds; • Participants will learn about the results will

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Mims, Pamela J., Carol Stranger, Julie A. Sears, and Wendee B. White. "Applying Systematic Instruction to Teach ELA Skills Using Fictional Novels in an iPad App: Results from a Study on Students with Significant Disabilities." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3227.

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Increasingly, researchers have successfully identified strategies to promote comprehension to students who are nonreaders. Further research is needed to replicate these promising results. In the current study, we used a multiple probe across participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of an iPad app, which incorporates evidence-based practices such as constant time delay and system of least prompts, on the acquisition of targeted vocabulary and comprehension of four middle school students with significant intellectual and developmental disability (SIDD). Findings suggest that the interve

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Bangsund, Jenny Christine. "Dwelling among mortals narratives of disability and revelation in twentieth-century American fiction /." 2007. http://etd1.library.duq.edu/theses/available/etd-03082007-112726/.

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(9171503), Zihan Wang. "FICTION MEDICINE AND THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA." Thesis, 2020.

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<div> <p> This dissertation examines medical representations, or what I call “fiction medicine,” in post-1949 Chinese literature and film. It is not uncommon to evaluate whether medical facts are scientifically portrayed in literary and cinematic works. Insightful and reasonable as this method is, the interpretation of relevant descriptions from a single medical perspective tends to exclude what may be labeled as misrepresentations from scholarly attention. Therefore, without judging the value of fiction medicine in accordance with scientific standards, this dissertation analyzes how a

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Books on the topic "Fiction, disabilities"

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Brenna, Beverley. Stories for every classroom: Canadian fiction portraying characters with disabilities. Canadian Scholars' Press, 2015.

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ill, Matthews Jenny 1948, ed. Adventure holiday. A & C Black, 1991.

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Yamamoto, Kazuko. Kii-chan. Arisukan, 1999.

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Covington, Dennis. Lizard. Bloomsbury, 1996.

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Covington, Dennis. Lizard. Delacorte Press, 1991.

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Loreto, Joan Marie. A song for Susan: Story. Special Children's Friends, 1986.

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Turner, Bonnie. The haunted igloo. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

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Dobkin, Bonnie. Just a little different. Childrens Press, 1994.

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Stemp, Jane. Waterbound. Hodder Children's Books, 1995.

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Jane, Hamilton. When Madeline Was Young. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Fiction, disabilities"

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Bradford, Clare. "Disabilities in Medievalist Fiction." In The Middle Ages in Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137035394_5.

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Tautiva, Vilmary. "Fact or Fiction." In Curricula for Students with Severe Disabilities. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315749112-7.

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Brown, Megan. "“Tell Me Who I Am”: An Investigation of Cultural Authenticity in YA Disability Peritexts." In Beyond the Blockbusters. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827135.003.0010.

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This chapter discusses the methods used by publishers to present culturally authentic characters with disabilities to readers. Disabilities deserve to be communicated realistically within the books that young adults access. Remaining authentic to the accurate culture of disability is not an easy task but through time spent, experiences, and exposure to disabilities and the people who have them, the author’s knowledge aids in their writing. By identifying patterns in the peritextual information in a random sampling of 30 YA realistic fiction novels written from 2010 to 2016, the analysis in the

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Parikh, Crystal. "Being Well." In Writing Human Rights. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816697069.003.0006.

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Considering the family romance and family saga as adapted in narrative fiction by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ana Castillo, in tandem with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Chapter Five argues for a conception of the right to health that recognizes embodied vulnerability as the core feature of human being.

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Wojtas, Paweł. "Disabled Textuality: Dusklands and In the Heart of the Country." In Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399522571.003.0002.

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This chapter begins with a discussion of the significance of J.M. Coetzee’s works for disability studies. Drawing on A. Z. Newton’s concept of “narrative ethics” (1997) posits that in Coetzee’s early fiction, the ethical implications of social and political oppression are inseparable from the formal and meaning-making devices of his texts. Coetzee’s characters with disabilities illustrate how the disabled body challenges affirmations of the wholeness and authority of normative subjectivity. Similarly, the experimental techniques in Coetzee’s writing work to dismantle the normative myths of tex

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Wojtas, Paweł. "Eco-Ability and Narrative Violence in Life & Times of Michael K." In Narratives of Disability and Illness in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee. Edinburgh University Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399522571.003.0004.

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This chapter begins with a discussion of Life & Times of Michael K, focusing on how the titular protagonist’s disabilities, such as facial disfigurement and body emaciation, intertwine with ecological themes to reflect his elusive ontological status. Drawing on Alison Kafer’s concept of “cripped environmentalism” (2017), the analysis examines how Michael K’s disabilities are shaped by socioecological factors. The intersection of ecological and disability vocabularies deepens the exploration of the novel’s narrative structure. Michael K is considered as a victim of “testimonial injustice” (

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Giaouri, Stergiani. "Investigating the Role of Cognitive Factors in Recognition of Paradox and Fiction Illusions in Children With Intellectual Disability and Down Syndrome." In Clinical Applications of Pediatric Neuropsychology from Infancy to Adolescence. IGI Global, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-9689-6.ch009.

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This study explored the relationship between cognitive factors and the recognition of visual illusions, particularly paradox and fiction illusions, in children with intellectual disabilities (ID) and Down syndrome (DS). The purpose of this chapter was to provide a comprehensive analysis of how children with ID and DS engage with such illusions, as well as to uncover any distinct patterns or challenges they face in comparison to typically developing (TD) children. The research drew on cognitive theories of intellectual and developmental disabilities to interpret its findings and to address key

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Jepkoech, Francisca. "Differentiated Learning in a Typical Classroom." In Closing the Educational Achievement Gap for Students With Learning Disabilities. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-8737-2.ch011.

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Differentiated learning continues to be the talk of the day in every institution and remains a fiction of the teaching fraternity. In a learning set up, students come from different backgrounds and requires teachers to understand and gather for their needs. It is therefore paramount to employ differentiated learning to ensure no child is left behind. Students are the pillar of our teaching either inside or outside of the classroom. For teaching to be successful we have to understand our students better to meet their interests and needs. It is evident from research that there are several ways i

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Murray, Stuart. "Reading Disability in a Time of Posthuman Work: Speed, Sleep and Embodiment." In Disability and the Posthuman. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621648.003.0006.

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This chapter looks at the place of disability in a time of posthumanist work. Work and employment are categories in which there are many public narratives about the ‘problems’ of people with disabilities. In a contemporary late-capitalist world that privileges ideas of work productivity and efficiency, those with disability are frequently deemed ‘slow’ or inefficient. The chapter explores claims made about 24/7 work cultures, seen through ideas of speed and time. It reads narratives of embodied work, in which disability is a central driver of depictions of subjectivity; and of sleep, a state d

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Murray, Stuart. "(Post)human Subjects, Disability Deployments." In Disability and the Posthuman. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621648.003.0003.

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Chapter One concentrates on recent theoretical writings on disability and posthumanism and also explores the intellectual spaces in which the subjects take shape, before moveing to a discussion of how these come together in select science fiction films. Disability Studies and critical posthumanism have much in common; a critique of humanist norms; a recognition of complex embodiment; and a commitment to intersectionality and inclusive practice among them. But they also harbour suspicions of one another. The most important divergence between the two subject areas comes in arguments surrounding

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Conference papers on the topic "Fiction, disabilities"

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Loewen, Georgia. "Exploring Gaming Wearables for Players with Upper Limb Motor Disabilities through Design Fiction and DIY." In CHI PLAY '24: The Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. ACM, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3665463.3678854.

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Tejero Hughes, Marie. "Exploring Realistic Fictional Books Written for Young Children for Authentic Representations of Characters With Disabilities." In AERA 2024. AERA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/ip.24.2092512.

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Tejero Hughes, Marie. "Exploring Realistic Fictional Books Written for Young Children for Authentic Representations of Characters With Disabilities." In 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. AERA, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/2092512.

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James Edwards, Emory, Kyle Lewis Polster, Isabel Tuason, Emily Blank, Michael Gilbert, and Stacy Branham. ""That's in the eye of the beholder": Layers of Interpretation in Image Descriptions for Fictional Representations of People with Disabilities." In ASSETS '21: The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3441852.3471222.

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