Presenter
Ashley Neybert* and Martin Storksdieck PhD
Oregon State University, USA
Abstract
An ongoing issue for students with disabilities is hearing that an instructor has never taught a student with their particular disability before. This often falls onto the student to tell the instructor how to best teach them which is a burden not held by other students. Often though the lived experiences that two people have might be more similar than what they would appear at a surface level. Two of these experiences are myself, a blind PhD graduate student in Education, and my PhD advisor Martin Storksdieck, a German immigrant to the United States. An analysis of similarities of several lived experiences and how bridging the gap when working with students with disabilities might be an easier bridge to build than previously imagined.