Here are some great resources:
National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research: NCDDR
Directory of Journals and Author guidelines in disability & rehab research field.
NATRI: National Assistive Technology Research Institute
National Center on Physical Activity & Disability: NCPAD
DisabilityInfo.gov: The name says it all.
Many of these links are rooted/sourced from University of Delaware's Center for Disabilities Studies
Census Disability Statistics
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Materials
Disability Counts with links for State & County information--emphasis is on rural information
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Zdenek Intervention Links
Lohman's Audio Description wiki
Overstream which hosts captions but not videos
NCAM on Audio Descriptions
CaptionTube YouTube captioning interface for videos you own/post
CapScribe captioning
Courtesy of Thom Lohman, Valerie H's Audio Description
Overstream which hosts captions but not videos
NCAM on Audio Descriptions
CaptionTube YouTube captioning interface for videos you own/post
CapScribe captioning
Courtesy of Thom Lohman, Valerie H's Audio Description
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Foucault Sports Training Project
Somehow, I'm working on using Foucault and some disability theorists to support the notion that greater access to physical training videos on the web should take place. So, that's sort of my goal. In the mean time, I need to actually gather some useful data about physical training sites and that sort of thing. In order to accomplish this, there are several steps necessary.
First, I must select a specific type of training videos online. At this point, I do not want to select intense or specialized training knowledge or trianing which requires normal bodies or bodies that are already trained. This enables me to work with materials which I think are more accessibility to disabled folks as well as agining communities. Similarly, this enables me to test out my current ideas of disability/ability and how it could be defined as an individual's ability or level of success in meeting their current potential. That means, if they have a normal body, but they are stiff, inflexible, and unable to move well, they are more disabled. If they are in a chair, but they are able to use their body to maximal capacities, meeting their potentials to 90 percent or more, then they are able bodied. Measuring by ability to meet potential is a far more effective, realistic, and accurate form of measurement than dealing with general norms, whiach forces the flock of humanity to move towards center and gives dominance to herd thinking and mediocrity while worshipping ideals--forms which few people will ever obtain. Instead, I am more interested in a culture that drives and works towards fulfilling individual potential. As a culture, community, and individuals, we would benefit by the increased rate of self-fulfillment and achievement as well as the reduction in unproductive competetition. Competition has its role, but it is not the end all be all. Instead, by asserting this sort of potential measure of disability, I think there's the potential to at least reassess,, if not critique, current norms in a meaningful and beneficial way. And this way also offers room for me to do some potentially interesting scholarly work. Then again, this proposed crtieria of ability could easily have already been tested and sunk--I don't know.
"Ich trinke auf gute Freunde!"
The end result, is that I am going to seek out training videos which center on flexibility and/or joint mobility. I don't want to do yoga or martial arts; instead, I am looking for things that people can do from simply sitting in a chair or standing up. This provides criteria for the greatest potential audience, and this strikes me as very important.
Once I have selected the basic movement exercises, I need to find three vendors.
Steve Maxwell at Amazon
Dragon Door article on "What is Joint Mobility"
Ultimate Joint Mobility nutrition product
I've also searched flexibility dvds. I went to google and looked at the top hits--not the sponsored links--as well as at the top sales numbers at Amazon. I figured these results would give me a good sense of what is moving in the market.
Rodney Yee's Power Yoga Flexibility
From google, TRX Essentials: Flexibility
Functional Flexibility at allegro medical site
My tentative starts are:
TRX
Rodney Yee
Scott Sonnon/RMAX
Make sure that I have clear criteria for selecting these. At this point, here they are:
came up high in rankings at google, youtube, and/or amazon
I am familiar with all three of them
TRX does TV ads--I think Yee might
Each of these has flexibility/ joint mobility as part of their larger fitness program
Two are centered around personalities: Sonnon & Yee
The products are represented as open to novices/beginners--anyone can do them
There are laddered or increased levels of expertise available to the pracititioners
After the three vendors, I need to run a brief accessibility study on their sites.
This is NOT done yet. Need to generic basic heuristics.
In the mean time, I need develop an argument that grounds my work in a lot of "persuasive facts about people with disability" [quote from Sean]
Then, once I have collected the information which is available, I need to:
examine YouTube and see what kinds of materials are available there & at Hulu for free
examine the accessibility of the materials at this site
write up and include my personal bias/involvement with the RMAX/Sonnon materials
Then, work on composing video, audio, and text to present a persuasive argument.
After that, construct the background scholarly document which provides an explanation of the theory which informs the position as well as the engaged academic involvement.
off the top of my head:
first, dA studies as an activist practice in and of itself
second, the G-A readings about/including discussions of Mullins, I think, where you can work for change while being assimmilated into the market place--the complex and conflicting natures
third, foucault and the already punished state of disability and working to redo that, to present disability as priviliged or base line assumed
fourth?
First, I must select a specific type of training videos online. At this point, I do not want to select intense or specialized training knowledge or trianing which requires normal bodies or bodies that are already trained. This enables me to work with materials which I think are more accessibility to disabled folks as well as agining communities. Similarly, this enables me to test out my current ideas of disability/ability and how it could be defined as an individual's ability or level of success in meeting their current potential. That means, if they have a normal body, but they are stiff, inflexible, and unable to move well, they are more disabled. If they are in a chair, but they are able to use their body to maximal capacities, meeting their potentials to 90 percent or more, then they are able bodied. Measuring by ability to meet potential is a far more effective, realistic, and accurate form of measurement than dealing with general norms, whiach forces the flock of humanity to move towards center and gives dominance to herd thinking and mediocrity while worshipping ideals--forms which few people will ever obtain. Instead, I am more interested in a culture that drives and works towards fulfilling individual potential. As a culture, community, and individuals, we would benefit by the increased rate of self-fulfillment and achievement as well as the reduction in unproductive competetition. Competition has its role, but it is not the end all be all. Instead, by asserting this sort of potential measure of disability, I think there's the potential to at least reassess,, if not critique, current norms in a meaningful and beneficial way. And this way also offers room for me to do some potentially interesting scholarly work. Then again, this proposed crtieria of ability could easily have already been tested and sunk--I don't know.
"Ich trinke auf gute Freunde!"
The end result, is that I am going to seek out training videos which center on flexibility and/or joint mobility. I don't want to do yoga or martial arts; instead, I am looking for things that people can do from simply sitting in a chair or standing up. This provides criteria for the greatest potential audience, and this strikes me as very important.
Once I have selected the basic movement exercises, I need to find three vendors.
Steve Maxwell at Amazon
Dragon Door article on "What is Joint Mobility"
Ultimate Joint Mobility nutrition product
I've also searched flexibility dvds. I went to google and looked at the top hits--not the sponsored links--as well as at the top sales numbers at Amazon. I figured these results would give me a good sense of what is moving in the market.
Rodney Yee's Power Yoga Flexibility
From google, TRX Essentials: Flexibility
Functional Flexibility at allegro medical site
My tentative starts are:
TRX
Rodney Yee
Scott Sonnon/RMAX
Make sure that I have clear criteria for selecting these. At this point, here they are:
came up high in rankings at google, youtube, and/or amazon
I am familiar with all three of them
TRX does TV ads--I think Yee might
Each of these has flexibility/ joint mobility as part of their larger fitness program
Two are centered around personalities: Sonnon & Yee
The products are represented as open to novices/beginners--anyone can do them
There are laddered or increased levels of expertise available to the pracititioners
After the three vendors, I need to run a brief accessibility study on their sites.
This is NOT done yet. Need to generic basic heuristics.
In the mean time, I need develop an argument that grounds my work in a lot of "persuasive facts about people with disability" [quote from Sean]
Then, once I have collected the information which is available, I need to:
examine YouTube and see what kinds of materials are available there & at Hulu for free
examine the accessibility of the materials at this site
write up and include my personal bias/involvement with the RMAX/Sonnon materials
Then, work on composing video, audio, and text to present a persuasive argument.
After that, construct the background scholarly document which provides an explanation of the theory which informs the position as well as the engaged academic involvement.
off the top of my head:
first, dA studies as an activist practice in and of itself
second, the G-A readings about/including discussions of Mullins, I think, where you can work for change while being assimmilated into the market place--the complex and conflicting natures
third, foucault and the already punished state of disability and working to redo that, to present disability as priviliged or base line assumed
fourth?
Foucault & Disability draft 2
Free writing rough draft
Just like the last draft, this comes from Foucault's Discipline & Punish, Vintage, 1995
Just after the other quote, there's this:
11
"Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. If it is still necessary for the law to reach and manipulate the body of the convict, it will be at a distance, in the proper way, according to strict rules, and with a much 'higher' aim. As a result of this new restraint, a whole army of technicians took over from the executioner, the immediate anatomist of pain: warders, doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists; by their very presence near the prisoner, they sing the praises that the law needs: they reassure it that the body and pain are not the ultimate objects of its punitive action."
When drawing parallels between this text and disability, there obviously has to be a distinction drawn between crime/ convicts and people with impairments. Then again, I have to wonder which do people fear more: disability/impairment or being convicted or being branded a criminal? That would make an interesting distinction and study. similarly, it would be interesting to see which position is regarded as having lower status within the culture--at least based upon stereotypes. Wow, that could be potentially very depressing. Which do you fear more happening to you: losing your sight or being convicted to five years in prison and being marked as a convicted felon?
On to Foucault:
"Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty."
This is perhaps one of the most important places to distinguish between convicts and impairment, and this point was made quite clearly in one of the readings we had (books not with me now) where people often overlook or ignore the veracity and very real nature of pain. In this text, Foucault is assuming the norm of able bodied people, people who do not suffer pain or limited access. This is a huge difference from and for people who have impairments and/or experience chronic pain. So I'm not sure to do with this qualifying statement.
"From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. If it is still necessary for the law to reach and manipulate the body of the convict, it will be at a distance, in the proper way, according to strict rules, and with a much 'higher' aim."
This I think is particularly usable in the discussion of disability and impairment. If an economy of suspended rights is seen as punishment, then what do we call the inability to access texts, physical spaces and places? Those things can easily be read as suspended rights--you cannot get to them right now. And since you cannot get to them, that is a form of punishment. I do not know if this is circular logic or not, but at least I think this is worth thinking about. Again, the built in antagonistic nature/attitude towards non-normatives.
"As a result of this new restraint, a whole army of technicians took over from the executioner, the immediate anatomist of pain: warders, doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists; by their very presence near the prisoner, they sing the praises that the law needs: they reassure it that the body and pain are not the ultimate objects of its punitive action."
This reminds me of all the trouble, doctors, experts, paperwork, etc., that is required for some students to get access to extra learning materials. Come, you must prove your lack of abilty. we must test you, we want to see exactly what it is you can and cannot do. ugh. Sometimes I wonder if we as a culture do not enjoy spending more time and resources performing as if we are concerned and making things more accessible--see, watch how much cash we spend on the process of certifying all these people as disabled--instead of actually investing the monies into resources, phsycial and staff and enforcement. what I mean is do we send resources that are meant to discuss/address the issue of disability/impairment proving to nondisabled people that we are generating accessible materials than we are in creating actually meaningful changes and adjustments so material, so structures actually are accessible. I don't know.
From personal experience, I do know that often people are far more interested in performing the socially acceptable, desired, or rewarded role so that they can make the claim that they are not sexist, racist, etc., instead of actually working towards changes which embody those values. "Reward me for my claims of equality while I continue to embody and perpetuate the problems I claim to have resolved." Or something like that.
This has something to do with hegemony. End post.
Just like the last draft, this comes from Foucault's Discipline & Punish, Vintage, 1995
Just after the other quote, there's this:
11
"Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. If it is still necessary for the law to reach and manipulate the body of the convict, it will be at a distance, in the proper way, according to strict rules, and with a much 'higher' aim. As a result of this new restraint, a whole army of technicians took over from the executioner, the immediate anatomist of pain: warders, doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists; by their very presence near the prisoner, they sing the praises that the law needs: they reassure it that the body and pain are not the ultimate objects of its punitive action."
When drawing parallels between this text and disability, there obviously has to be a distinction drawn between crime/ convicts and people with impairments. Then again, I have to wonder which do people fear more: disability/impairment or being convicted or being branded a criminal? That would make an interesting distinction and study. similarly, it would be interesting to see which position is regarded as having lower status within the culture--at least based upon stereotypes. Wow, that could be potentially very depressing. Which do you fear more happening to you: losing your sight or being convicted to five years in prison and being marked as a convicted felon?
On to Foucault:
"Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty."
This is perhaps one of the most important places to distinguish between convicts and impairment, and this point was made quite clearly in one of the readings we had (books not with me now) where people often overlook or ignore the veracity and very real nature of pain. In this text, Foucault is assuming the norm of able bodied people, people who do not suffer pain or limited access. This is a huge difference from and for people who have impairments and/or experience chronic pain. So I'm not sure to do with this qualifying statement.
"From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. If it is still necessary for the law to reach and manipulate the body of the convict, it will be at a distance, in the proper way, according to strict rules, and with a much 'higher' aim."
This I think is particularly usable in the discussion of disability and impairment. If an economy of suspended rights is seen as punishment, then what do we call the inability to access texts, physical spaces and places? Those things can easily be read as suspended rights--you cannot get to them right now. And since you cannot get to them, that is a form of punishment. I do not know if this is circular logic or not, but at least I think this is worth thinking about. Again, the built in antagonistic nature/attitude towards non-normatives.
"As a result of this new restraint, a whole army of technicians took over from the executioner, the immediate anatomist of pain: warders, doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists, psychologists, educationalists; by their very presence near the prisoner, they sing the praises that the law needs: they reassure it that the body and pain are not the ultimate objects of its punitive action."
This reminds me of all the trouble, doctors, experts, paperwork, etc., that is required for some students to get access to extra learning materials. Come, you must prove your lack of abilty. we must test you, we want to see exactly what it is you can and cannot do. ugh. Sometimes I wonder if we as a culture do not enjoy spending more time and resources performing as if we are concerned and making things more accessible--see, watch how much cash we spend on the process of certifying all these people as disabled--instead of actually investing the monies into resources, phsycial and staff and enforcement. what I mean is do we send resources that are meant to discuss/address the issue of disability/impairment proving to nondisabled people that we are generating accessible materials than we are in creating actually meaningful changes and adjustments so material, so structures actually are accessible. I don't know.
From personal experience, I do know that often people are far more interested in performing the socially acceptable, desired, or rewarded role so that they can make the claim that they are not sexist, racist, etc., instead of actually working towards changes which embody those values. "Reward me for my claims of equality while I continue to embody and perpetuate the problems I claim to have resolved." Or something like that.
This has something to do with hegemony. End post.
Foucault & Disability draft
Free Write idea generation
Foucault's Discipline & Punish Vintag 1995
11 "But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as an instrument or intermediary: if one intervenes upon it to imprison it, or to make it work, it is in order to deprive the individual of a liberty that is regarded both as a right and as a property. The body, according to this penalty, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations obligations and prohibitions. Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the consituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights."
So, the body is a means or tool to leverage as an instrument--the body is no the end goal, but rather a means to achieve another goal.
That goal appears to be to reach an individual person's liberty--and, as stated above that liberty is regarded as both a right and property. If that liberty, right and property, is to be reached, then it must be reached through the body.
Okay, I have a couple concerns about this. First, how can a notion, liberty, be a right and a piece of property? If it is not possible to get it directly, then can it really be a piece of property? also, the next question which develops is, isn't this assuming that liberty is reliant upon the body? and if liberty is reliant upon the body, how can liberty actually be separated from the body? I'm not sure, but i don't like the ease of distinction of the idea of liberty from the body. Similarly, just because someone's body is free does not mean that they have liberty or that they will exercise it. But I may also be over riffing this part. If I understand what Foucault is saying, the end goal has little to do with the body, but the body is the vehicle in order to take some ability, idea, or notion away from the person being punished.
"The body, according to this penalty, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations, obligations, and prohibitions."
This one line seems to connect a great deal with disability and accessibility. In particular, the constraints and privations remind me of physical accessibility to specific sites and physical locations as wll as the in/ability to read/hear/respond to certain kinds of texts, visual/audio/printed, because of impairment. I do not know what this means, but the parallels between the prisoning, the punishment, seems a lot like what happens to many people who have impairments. If you have an impairment, that is perhaps seen as being a physical punishment. If you have been given that physical punishment--for whatever metaphysical or medical reasons--then that automatically qualifies you as a person who HAS already been punished. And since you have already been punished, perhaps that means then that you really have no right or reason to expect accessibility, to expect those things which would or could offer equal liberty of access to resources and activities. That's just one potential reading.
I'm just toying with potential ideas or remixes of F's ideas.
Foucault's Discipline & Punish Vintag 1995
11 "But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as an instrument or intermediary: if one intervenes upon it to imprison it, or to make it work, it is in order to deprive the individual of a liberty that is regarded both as a right and as a property. The body, according to this penalty, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations obligations and prohibitions. Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the consituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights."
So, the body is a means or tool to leverage as an instrument--the body is no the end goal, but rather a means to achieve another goal.
That goal appears to be to reach an individual person's liberty--and, as stated above that liberty is regarded as both a right and property. If that liberty, right and property, is to be reached, then it must be reached through the body.
Okay, I have a couple concerns about this. First, how can a notion, liberty, be a right and a piece of property? If it is not possible to get it directly, then can it really be a piece of property? also, the next question which develops is, isn't this assuming that liberty is reliant upon the body? and if liberty is reliant upon the body, how can liberty actually be separated from the body? I'm not sure, but i don't like the ease of distinction of the idea of liberty from the body. Similarly, just because someone's body is free does not mean that they have liberty or that they will exercise it. But I may also be over riffing this part. If I understand what Foucault is saying, the end goal has little to do with the body, but the body is the vehicle in order to take some ability, idea, or notion away from the person being punished.
"The body, according to this penalty, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations, obligations, and prohibitions."
This one line seems to connect a great deal with disability and accessibility. In particular, the constraints and privations remind me of physical accessibility to specific sites and physical locations as wll as the in/ability to read/hear/respond to certain kinds of texts, visual/audio/printed, because of impairment. I do not know what this means, but the parallels between the prisoning, the punishment, seems a lot like what happens to many people who have impairments. If you have an impairment, that is perhaps seen as being a physical punishment. If you have been given that physical punishment--for whatever metaphysical or medical reasons--then that automatically qualifies you as a person who HAS already been punished. And since you have already been punished, perhaps that means then that you really have no right or reason to expect accessibility, to expect those things which would or could offer equal liberty of access to resources and activities. That's just one potential reading.
I'm just toying with potential ideas or remixes of F's ideas.
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