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How to Become a Disability-Inclusive Communication Designer: Knowledge and Practices for Professional Development

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This study draws on an analysis of a range of texts to trace the learning ecologies which support disability-inclusive teaching, research, administration, and industry practice. As a means to increase our disciplinary and institutional capacity to foster inclusion, I seek to understand the processes through which disability-inclusive designers, environments, and institutions come to be.

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    SIGDOC '22: Proceedings of the 40th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
    October 2022
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