• "Can't Nobody Even Spread Their Wings Here": Thinking Disability Alongside Environmental Racism, Collectively Acquired Impairments, and Injustice in Flint, Michigan 

  Kovesi, Caroline (2019-08-14)

  The unjust production of impairments has historically posed a theoretical and political problem for a Disability Studies committed to normalizing and de-stigmatizing disability. This discursive schism serves to reinforce ...

• "The Carpet Felt Five Inches Thick!" A Socio-Spatial Analysis of the Judge Rotenberg Center 

  Shields, Raya (2019-05-23)

  Referencing Foucault, Goffman, and the lived experiences and testimony of survivors of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), Canton Massachusetts, read alongside the writing of geographers, architects and sociologists exploring ...

• Sexuality and Visible, Physical Disabilities: A Scoping Review 

  Brooks, Stephanie (2019-07-29)

  The historical and ongoing desexualization of people with disabilities (PWDs) along with the pervasive ableist narrative in Western societies have led to the equation of disability with asexuality. Although some members ...

• The Ghetto-to-Prison Pipeline: Racialization, 'Reactionary Psychoses', and State-Sanctioned Violence 

  Ghani, Rukiyah (2019-07-29)

  The ghetto-to-prison pipeline echoes Nirmala Erevelles’ conception of ‘institutional arrangements’ whereby marked bodies are removed “from public generative spaces, such as schools, to restrictive spaces of isolation, ...

• Once Upon a Time Was Disability: Disability in Fairy Tales from the Nineteenth Century to Disney 

  Doberstein, Jessica (2019-08-08)

  Disability has been a part of fairy tales from the beginning. The Western world and literature changed greatly in the nineteenth century, including how disability was used in fairy tales. In the twentieth century, Walt ...

• The Negative Stigma Associated With Learning Disability In Educational Institutions Nigeria 

  Enoma, Gift (2019-08-13)

  There is a lack of understanding related to the way that the stigma of having a learning disability impacts students in Nigeria (Abang, 1988; Fuchs, Mock, Morgan and Young, 2003). The objective of this qualitative, ...

• "Can't Nobody Even Spread Their Wings Here": Thinking Disability Alongside Environmental Racism, Collectively Acquired Impairments, and Injustice in Flint, Michigan 

  Kovesi, Caroline (2019-08-14)

• Contracting Care: Evaluating the effects of the "Second Generation Health System Strategy' on the contracting environment for community organizations in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver 

  Wood, Tesia (2019-04-11)

  This paper examines the impacts of the Downtown Eastside ‘Second Generation Health System Strategy’ (2GHSS) on the contracting environment for community organizations and programs receiving funding from the regional health ...

• The Politics of Reproductive Health and Women's Rights: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Planning 2020 

  Wootton, Amanda (2018-09-18)

  Global population policy has been a recurring topic on foreign policy and international development agendas since the end of World War II. Since its inception, initiatives have taken many forms, but all have included a ...

• Pathologizing Abuse: Examining Public Health Approaches to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Canada 

  Nandakumar, Manasi (2018-10-24)

  This paper aims to examine the medicalization of intimate partner violence (IPV) using critical political economy, feminist political economy and Foucault’s theory of power. A critical discourse analysis of publications ...

• Persistent Childhood Poverty in Canada: A Political Economy Analysis of its Causes 

  Duru, Catherine (2018-11-13)

  Child poverty is a global phenomenon, although with different rates among nations. It is high in the developing nations, but even in some developed countries, high child poverty rates have been recorded. The primary ...

• Disrupting the Status Quo: Basic Income for People with Disabilities 

  Creighton, Alexandra (2018-10-15)

  This paper explores how a basic income (BI) program for people with disabilities could affirm the ideals outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Ontario Human Rights Code and the UN Convention on the ...

• The Narrative Use of Disability in Tales of Love and Darkness and Sweet Mud 

  Zinman, David (2018-10-15)

  Mitchell and Snyder suggest a pattern of representation in which the disability is used to inaugurate narrative and provide motivation and backstory for character, obscuring the reality of disability, and usurping the ...

• Representing Autism in Television: Perpetuating the Stereotypes 

  Kolakowski, Victoria (2018-10-16)

  Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is increasing in prevalence in North America. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2018) notes that in 2000 the rate of diagnosis was 1 in ...

• The Social Geographies of Access and Inclusivity for Adults with Learning Disabilities in Indigenous Cultural Contexts 

  Donovan, Kathleen (2018-11-26)

  Rather than remaining confined to the educational experiences of childhood, learning disabilities (LDs) which impact one’s ability to perceive, interpret, and use both verbal and/or non-verbal information, can be carried ...

• The Profound Impact of Cochlear Implants on a Young Deaf Adult's Life & Deaf Identity 

  Girardo, Laura (2018-12-18)

  This paper explores my autoethnography about the life experiences of young deaf adults with cochlear implants, and most importantly, researching how we describe and identify ourselves. The generation born in the years ...

• rTMS reduces cortical imbalance associated with visual hallucinations after occipital stroke 

  Rafique, S.A.; Richards, J.R.; Steeves, J.K.E. (2016-10)

  Objective: To investigate the efficacy of multiday repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to the occipital cortex in a patient with continuous visual phosphene hallucinations for more than 2 years following ...

• Own-age and own-sex biases in recognition of aged faces 

  Verdichevski, M; Steeves, J.K.E. (2013-10)

  It is surprising how easily we are able to recognize people whom we have not seen in many years, somehow compensating for the aging-related facial changes that occurred. We measured the limits of the ability to recognize ...

• Own-age and own-sex biases in recognition of aged faces. 

  Verdichevski, M; Steeves, J.K.E. (2013-10)

  It is surprising how easily we are able to recognize people whom we have not seen in many years, somehow compensating for the aging-related facial changes that occurred. We measured the limits of the ability to recognize ...

• Evidence of multisensory plasticity: Asymmetrical medial geniculate body in people with one eye 

  Moro, S.S.; Kelly, K.R.; McKetton, L; Gallie, B.L.; Steeves, J.K.E. (NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015-10)

  The medial geniculate body (MGB) plays a central role in auditory processing with both efferent and afferent tracts to primary auditory cortex. People who have lost one eye early in life have enhanced sound localization, ...

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