Music documentaries often suffer from the same problem. Twenty different people saying the same thing. “He’s just on another level, man” or “There’s no one quite like him,” or insert platitudinous superlative here. It doesn’t matter how right they are, the same thing said over and over again (interspersed with performance clips) doesn’t make aContinue reading “Flamekeeper: Great Musician, So-so Documentary.”
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Questioning Rehabilitation
Given that the unemployment rate for people with disabilities is more than twice that of people without disabilities (7.3% vs 3.5% in 2019) there are two major explanations. One, people with disabilities lack the essential skills to gain employment, and two, workplaces are not accessible to people with disabilities (remember that unemployment rates only considerContinue reading “Questioning Rehabilitation”
Book Review: “The Secret Life of Stories: How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the way we Read
This book’s greatest strengths and greatest drawbacks are intertwined. For example, rather than focusing on a detailed look at the function of disability in a few texts, Bérubé moves quickly between a huge range books, leaving me with the impression that I don’t fully understand his arguments, but also giving me effectively a reading listContinue reading “Book Review: “The Secret Life of Stories: How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the way we Read”
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