The TPI Network strives to discover the barriers to quality of life for people with disabilities of all ages and to mitigate those barriers through identifying, understanding, making others aware, and to mobilizing communities through changes in perceptions, laws, regulations and actions. Barriers can be physical, like a curb-cut, however, barriers are frequently social, conceptual and perceptional.
Articles
Cory, R., White, J., Stuckey, Z. (2010). Using disability theory to change disability services: A case study in student activism. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 23(1), 29-36.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ888642
Cosier, M. (2012). “The road less traveled”: Combining disability studies and quantitative analysis with medium and large data sets. Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 37(2), 81-88. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ977419
Cosier, M., & Ashby, C. (Eds.). (2016). Enacting change from within: Disability Studies meets teaching and teacher education. New York, NY: Peter Lang
Cosier, M., & Ferguson, P. M. (2012). Disability studies and the support of individuals with significant disabilities and their families: An introduction to the issues. Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 37(2), 67-69.
Cosier, M., & Pearson, H. (2016). Can we talk?: The underdeveloped dialogue between teacher education and Disability Studies. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244015626766
Maples, J., Arndt, K., & White, J. (2010). (Re)seeing The Mighty: Critically examining one film’s representations of disability in the English classroom. English Journal, 100(2), 77-85. (Disability Studies/Social Perception) http://www.jstor.org/stable/25790039
Pearson, H., Cosier, M., Kim, J., Gomez, A., Hines, C., McKee, A., & Ruiz, L. (2016). The impact of Disability Studies curriculum on education professionals' perspectives and practice: Implications for education, social justice, and social change. Disability Studies Quarterly, 36(2). www.dsq-sds.org
https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4406/4304