Narrative 14: Technology in the lives of people with disabilities

Brooke Ellison

Chapter 48 in Research Handbook on Disability Policy, 2023, pp 581-582 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: It is impossible to talk about technology without also talking about disability. It is impossible to talk about disability without also talking about technology. To attempt to talk about either without also incorporating the other would be woefully insufficient, gapingly incomplete. This is a lesson I learned early on in my life with disability, only a few short months after the accident that would come to leave me paralyzed from my neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe. Technology is the bridge that spans the divide that disability can often create. Technology is central to the lives of people with disabilities, affording them the opportunity to accomplish goals and conceivably to reach heights that are typically unexpected. I teach these lessons because I know them to be true, and I have lived them.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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