Aspects of disabled students' experiences from the C2C Design Team

The Courses to Careers student design team is part of a collaborative project that facilitates partnerships between students with disabilities and faculty in physics education. One of the many projects that this group has worked on includes developing a series of articles for the “Just Physics” column in The Physics Teacher. Our series delves into several topics, including disabled student experiences, intersectionality, and empathy, and we give suggestions regarding best practices for supporting students, handling accommodations, and how to celebrate disabled students. In this talk, I will discuss the disabled student writing process, focussing on my personal experiences. I will also provide a brief summary of the published column topics and a sneak peek into the next segment of the column. We hope that this talk and the column itself can give insight into aspects of the disabled student experience and help break down the current exclusionary climate towards students with disabilities.

This work is supported in part by NSF Grant Nos. DUE 2336367 and DUE 2336368.