Online Continuing Education Courses

The Fiasco of Form: Disabling Design

• Describe the limitations of social construction models
• Explore 4 different ways of defining disability and why these "disability" definitions are limiting
• Examine various types of ability and provide examples of "dis-ability"
• Explore methods of everyday design and explain why design for population norms is limiting
• Outline and describe 5 environmental barriers and discuss the design implications of ability