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Relationality and Disability<\/span><\/h2>\r\nIn the modules that follow, we will be thinking about the relationship between disability and healthcare. In this material, we aim to challenge the conventional\r\n\"\"separation between patients and providers, with the latter being positioned as the sole \u201clegitimate\u201d experts in healthcare. Instead, we emphasize the importance of bringing together many forms of experience and expertise to promote access to healthcare and health itself.\r\n\r\nAs you will see in this module, one form of expertise that promotes wellbeing is through Indigenous ways of knowing.\r\n\r\nOne way to expand the range of experience and expertise utilized in healthcare is to acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty of the land. Lovanna L. Lovern (2021) suggests that we begin to shift relationships by thinking with Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding difference<\/a>. This also means that we must acknowledge and address [pb_glossary id=\"757\"]white supremacy[\/pb_glossary] in the systems that shape our lives and futures (Inneesh-Nash, 2021).","rendered":"

Relationality and Disability<\/span><\/h2>\n

In the modules that follow, we will be thinking about the relationship between disability and healthcare. In this material, we aim to challenge the conventional
\n\"\"separation between patients and providers, with the latter being positioned as the sole \u201clegitimate\u201d experts in healthcare. Instead, we emphasize the importance of bringing together many forms of experience and expertise to promote access to healthcare and health itself.<\/p>\n

As you will see in this module, one form of expertise that promotes wellbeing is through Indigenous ways of knowing.<\/p>\n

One way to expand the range of experience and expertise utilized in healthcare is to acknowledge Indigenous sovereignty of the land. Lovanna L. Lovern (2021) suggests that we begin to shift relationships by thinking with Indigenous ways of knowing and understanding difference<\/a>. This also means that we must acknowledge and address