Event Host: ADA Coordinator's Office
Short Description: Multiple Perspectives is an ongoing exploration of disability, a conversation including many voices and reflecting perspectives gained through experience and research; theory and practice, arts and sciences. Presentations will encourage discussions across the typical social, political and disciplinary boundaries; connect the individual to local, national and international approaches; and consider parallels, distinctions and intersections with race, gender and ethnicity.
July, 2015, was the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act; November, 2015, marked the 20th Anniversary of the Disability Discrimination Act in Britain; and December, 2016, will be the 10th anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
Multiple Perspectives is an ongoing exploration of disability, a conversation including many voices and reflecting perspectives gained through experience and research; theory and practice, arts and sciences. Presentations will encourage discussions across the typical social, political and disciplinary boundaries; connect the individual to local, national and international approaches; and consider parallels, distinctions and intersections with race, gender and ethnicity.
This year’s conference will feature presentations by: Joel Snyder (Author; President, Audio Description Associates, LLC; Director, Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind), Victor Pineda (member of The Access Board; President of World ENABLED; and Senior Fellow at The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society) and Melanie Yergeau (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan).
Featured Public Events
April 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ohio Union
- Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal
Facilitated by Joel Snyder, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC & Director, Audio Description Project American Council of the Blind. Will lead a training in Audio Description, an increasingly important tool in providing access to the wide range of instructional and entertainment media arts (graphics, video, paintings, television, images, performing arts, museums…) for individuals who are blind.
Registration required; event details can be found on registration site. Free to Ohio State Faculty and Staff through generous subsidies from the Offices of Distance Education & ELearning and Student Disability Services. A Discounted rate of $25 for the general public is made possible by the support of VSA OHIO.
April 13, 3-6 p.m. in the Blackwell’s ball room
- AUTISTEXT: The 2016 Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture
Presented by Melanie Yergeau, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. When autistic people disclose being autistic, they are often met with intrusive questions and hostile responses: Who diagnosed you? When were you toilet-trained? Well, you don't look autistic to me.
Autism disclosure can be taken by others as an opportunity to tally symptoms, to compare disclosures against autism stereotypes or misinformed ideas about diagnostic criteria. In this talk, Yergeau examines the ways in which disability disclosures are often read as invitations to refute diagnosis. The ability to say, “I have autism,” for example, is often viewed as evidence that one does not have autism — or, at least, not “real” or “severe” autism. As a means of speaking back to these stereotypes, Yergeau examines the ways in which autistic bloggers redefine what diagnosis can mean for autistic people.
- The Ethel Louise Armstrong Student Perspectives Poster Reception
Featuring graduate research and undergraduate research, art and performance, community service and class projects, the reception encourages students to network with professionals, the community and scholars who share their interests in the science, art, culture, politics and realities of disability.
The Ethel Louise Armstrong Lecture and Student Poster Competition are free and open to the public. Held annually at The Ohio State University's Multiple Perspectives Conference it is made possible through the generosity of ELA Foundation and its founder Margaret Stanton. The lecture honors Ms. Stanton's grandmother, Ethel Louise Armstrong, who exemplified self-determination and resistance in the face of socially imposed constraints. As a young woman with a physical disability growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, Stanton was inspired by her grandmother's insistence on excelling in postsecondary education despite social conventions during her time that denied women, particularly those with disabilities, opportunities for school and work. Ms. Staton, a lifelong advocate worked in Washington DC promoting accessibility after earning her M.Ed. In 1994 she founded the ELA Foundation to promote full inclusion of people with disabilities in the world.
April 14, 3:30-5 p.m. in Pfhal Hall 140
- "Inclusive Cities"
Presented by Victor Santiago Pineda. Based on his international work with the disability organizations, city governments and the private sector, Pineda has developed a conceptual and practical approach to urban planning shaped by the U.N. Convention on Disability. Victor presents a preview of his upcoming book "Inclusive Cities: Governance and the Transformation of Disability Rights," in which he distills the principles of planning, sustainability and social justice into a conceptual framework that can be understood as personal narrative.
Initiated by the Columbus Advisory Committee on Disability to honor Ken Campbell’s life time of service and advocacy, the Ken Campbell Lecture is free and open to the public as a featured event at The Ohio State University’s the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability. A highlight of the annual conference, the Ken Campbell Lecture focuses on disability policy and honors Campbell’s life’s work, including over twenty years guiding the City of Columbus’ disability policies as it’s ADA Coordinator.
Concurrent sessions include presenters from across the country, Japan, Canada, Australia and the UK. Registration required; event details can be found on registration site.
