How having friend with low vision and Chiari Malformation has helped me accept my disability and diagnoses

I live with a disability and chronic illness along with multiple allergies, so being able to quickly locate and provide medical information to medical staff or first responders is very important to me when I am receiving medical care. One of my favorite tools for…

Tips for managing dysgraphia in classroom settings, from elementary school to college.

Five not-so-secret things your IEP case manager isn’t telling you, from a college student who had a IEP

How to make lockers accessible, an accommodation many people don’t think of

How I answer common questions about my glasses from strangers or curious friends in a simple and positive way

Background In order to satisfy the synthesis/capstone requirement for my undergraduate degree in 2019, I took a course that focused on psychological traumatology, the study of how traumatic or stressful events affect someone’s mind. For my final paper, I chose the topic of addressing the…

Last year, one of my best friends, who I will call Jane, experienced a great deal of academic ableism from a professor in their department. While I wasn’t there to witness what happened in the classroom, I watched Jane suffer from a mental and emotional…

When I was in middle school, I began to experience academic ableism in the classroom, primarily from my teachers. While I was fortunate to have many wonderful teachers who helped me to develop a love of learning and a sense of belonging in the classroom,…

Five common assumptions about assistive technology- my 200th post!

My experiences taking 16 virtual classes across 4 platforms

Here is how I answer questions about vision loss for curious younger kids