Disability, Learning, and Education: A Guidebook

The Guidebook is organized into five units and fourteen modules. 1. Getting Started 2. What is Disability? 3. What is Ableism? 4. What is K-12 education and how is ableism embedded in the system? 5. What kind of teacher do you want to be for your disabled students and how will you become that person? The Guidebook is structured around a carefully curated collection of 121 sources from 110 creators—most of whom publicly identify as Deaf or disabled. Over 500 undergraduate students at Illinois State University have found these sources helpful. The Guidebook was originally designed to facilitate Dr. Natalie L. Shaheen’s “Special” Education 101 course and could easily be incorporated into other university teacher preparation courses. Additionally, the Guidebook could be used to facilitate professional development for inservice teachers.