Author: techanddis

I can’t believe it’s less than a week away before I have the pleasure of teaching Technology & Disability class for a second time around. I am grateful to my department for letting me teach this again, and I have a paperwork to make this a permanent offering in the works. This class was such a…

Please mark your calendars for Friday, February 19th, at 4pm. Historian Dr. John Kinder will be delivering a Mullins Distinguished Lecture entitled “The Cripple Ceases to Be: War, Veterans, and the ‘End’ of Disability” in Surge 118B. This lecture is made possible through the CLAHS Diversity Committee and sponsored by the Departments of English, Philosophy,…

This class has been excellent. The material results of this class include: a graphic novella about prenatal diagnostics, ADA surveys of campus locations, a new design for adaptive ski harnessing, statistical data on disability in engineering curricula, many exciting potential units for classes (including units on the Friendly Restaurant accessibility project in Taiwan, technologies used by…

So far this semester, the following activities and discussions have been introduced — Field Trips to the library to learn how to measure bathrooms to ADA Title II specifications with Mike Kutnak and to the Assistive Tech Lab with Christa Miller. Pam Vickers, ADA Coordinator, and Mike Kutnak came to our class to tell us…

Thanks to you all for your participation during the first week of class. I’m even more excited about the semester. Please be reminded that Adventure Plans are due September 10th. Can’t wait to see what future of project grading you will be inventing for me! Please contact me (shew at vt dot edu) if you…

Welcome to the Course Site for Fall 2015’s “Technology & Disability” course. While the semester has not yet begun, I’m setting up a structure to fill with content during the coming semester, so please bear with the current disorganization! I’m Ashley Shew, course instructor, page admin, and assistant professor in STS at Virginia Tech. I’ve…