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Licensed Counselor| Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Access Researcher & Consultant| Promoting Access & Inclusion in Counseling, Education, Workforce| Neurodiversity and Disability Specialist
Grateful for the advocacy from Center for Racial and Disability Justice. We need more disabled researcher. Honored and happy to be a disabled researcher. We also need academia to invest in our education and to collectively develop a mentoring network for disabled researchers. This system needs to be one that is collective rather than an individualistic approach. If we are to improve research then we also need to decolonize the system to advance the care for individuals with disability in education, medical, legal, and mental health care.
Disability data plays a vital role in how programs and services are delivered, how policy priorities are developed, and how research is designed. Yet, data collection methods, definitions, and metrics remain stagnant, leading to sustained barriers, neglect, and inaccessibility. A path towards disability data justice is possible. Read our public comment letter to The White House Office of Science and Technology, regarding the Federal Evidence Agenda on Disability Equity: https://lnkd.in/dF39Udwi #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityDataJustice