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DESCRIPTION:As a queer\, autistic\, trans\, and multiply disabled person\, 
 I have been regularly told that academic institutions and the wider world 
 of theatre are not places for people like me.\n\nStudying psychology and t
 heater throughout my life\, most of my student time has been spent defendi
 ng my right to be in a space and trying to figure out how to accommodate m
 yself rather than actually learning the content being taught. After being 
 called a burden several times over and told “the theatre isn’t made fo
 r people like you”\, I decided to combine my skills from six years of te
 aching and studying psychology with my knowledge of disability\, theatre\,
  and education to create an accessible resource guide for all kinds of cla
 ssrooms. Combining the latest research in accessible education and accessi
 ble arts education\, I constructed this resource guide as an accessible se
 ries of videos on my YouTube channel breaking down the fundamental issues 
 with academia as a whole and how we can\, practically\, go about changing 
 it. While primarily centered around arts education\, it generalizes skills
  to all other realms of what and how we teach\, hoping that it can ensure 
 other people like me will never have to share similar experiences. At the 
 same time\, these skills are being put into practice with my staging of th
 e world’s first all-neurodivergent cast and crew production of The Curio
 us Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on Mount Holyoke’s mainstage fr
 om April 20-23. We are making theatre by and for people like me\, and maki
 ng some history while we do it to make sure the world pays more attention 
 to the research work that sparked the project to begin with.\n\nI am not t
 he first person to create accessible theatre education\, nor is this proje
 ct fixing many of the problems in the industry\, but I have had the privil
 ege of working with many of the current experts in this young field throug
 hout this process and am very privileged to be able to add to the conversa
 tion and make an important step with my work.\n\nIn my workshop\, I will g
 o over the basics of how to make curricula universally accessible\, the si
 mple things in teaching that make minority students feel alienated that ar
 e hard to pick up on or plan for\, and give faculty the opportunity to ask
  questions about disability in a judgment-free space. Disability activism 
 as we know it today is only about a decade or two old and research into th
 e practicalities of fully inclusive education are not much older. I hope t
 hat this will be a solid jumping off point to help professors feel more em
 powered to make deliberate changes in their classrooms to make life easier
  both for them and for their minority students.\n\nPresenter: Sydney Zarle
 ngo
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LOCATION:Dwight Hall\, Dwight 101
SUMMARY:Accessible Education: Theory & Practicum
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 y_practicum
CATEGORIES:Trainings & Workshops
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