Welcome back to Rehab Gab! Today we are joined by Dr. Danielle Peers, a Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, former Team Canada Paralympic wheelchair basketball athlete, and the Academic Lead on Equity Praxis and Systemic Ableism at the University of Alberta. They join us to extend our conversation on Breaking Barriers - systemic ableism in academia, healthcare, and technology. Sarcasm may be the language of choice here, but don't let it detract from the importance of this conversation. If you have anything to add to this topic, leave us a comment, send us an email, or tag us in a response post!

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As always, you can read more on our discussion topic with the following sources:

Feldner, H. A., Evans, H. D., Chamblin, K., Ellis, L. M., Harniss, M. K., Lee, D., & Woiak, J. (2022). Infusing disability equity within rehabilitation education and practice: A qualitative study of lived experiences of ableism, allyship, and healthcare partnership. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences, 3, 947592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.947592

Pullen, E., Jackson, D., Silk, M., Howe, P. D., & Silva, C. F. (2021). Extraordinary Normalcy, Ableist Rehabilitation, and Sporting Ablenationalism: The Cultural (Re)Production of Paralympic Disability Narratives. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38(3), 209-217. Retrieved Mar 4, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1123/ssj.2020-0093

A. Shew, "Ableism, Technoableism, and Future AI," in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 40-85, March 2020, doi: 10.1109/MTS.2020.2967492.

Korpela, R. A., Siirtola, T. O., & Koivikko, M. J. (1992). The cost of assistive devices for children with mobility limitation. Pediatrics, 90(4), 597–602.

Leslie Berntsen, Ableism and assistive technology. Science 3:81, 1057-1057(2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.adj4475

https://crippledscholar.com/2015/07/04/when-celebrating-accessible-technology-is-just-reinforcing-ableism/

And please make sure to check out more of Dr. Peers' work: http://www.daniellepeers.com/