ERIC Number: EJ1426867
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-5748
EISSN: EISSN-1090-7009
The Academic Oratory Tax Paid by Undergraduates as Persons Who Stutter
Pietro A. Sasso; Amelia-Marie Altstadt; Kim E. Bullington
Review of Higher Education, v47 n3 p347-372 2024
This study highlights the nuanced ways ten undergraduate students who stutter can experience ableism. A critical framework of stuttering ableism at the community and public policy levels are used to interrogate how ableism oppresses persons who stutter. Inclusive language humanizes the experiences of participants who experienced an academic oratory tax and invisibility. Participants paid an academic oratory tax through co-curricular participation and felt invisible, being cast into material participation and passive involvement. Implications for practice include new ways of thinking about belonging for persons who stutter in college.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Stuttering, Students with Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Bias, Disability Discrimination, Student Participation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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