Learning Objectives
This Open Educational Resource (OER) foregrounds the expertise of disabled, Deaf, and people in educating future professionals about delivering accessible, inclusive healthcare. Through course materials, videos, and audio recordings, learners will engage directly with the day-to-day realities of these communities. The curriculum emphasizes the intersectionality of healthcare experiences with disability, madness, and Deafhood, and their interrelationships with Indigeneity, Blackness, race, gender, 2SLGBTQ+ identities, class, age, and other power dynamics.
The OER is structured into eight modules, each introducing key theoretical and practical conversations at the intersection of critical disability studies and healthcare. It includes:
- Text-based learning materials
- Multimedia resources featuring community perspectives and lived experiences
- Open-access required and suggested readings
- Activities designed to encourage reflection and application of key concepts
- A mini documentary and two podcasts that animate course learnings
Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify Ableism, Saneism, and Audism, explore their relationship with other forms of power, and identify some ways they manifest in healthcare education and delivery.
- Practice critical self-reflection as well as positioning oneself with respect to disability, madness, and Deafhood.
- Navigate tools to support centering disability experience and expertise in a variety of healthcare environments and encounters.
- Define and distinguish among accommodation, accessibility, and critical access as relevant to healthcare.
- Identify different frameworks for understanding disability, including disability rights and justice, attending to how rights and justice in healthcare are responsive to one another while holding space for tensions and specificity.
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