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"Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds" by Arseli Dokumaci is a highly valuable book that explores the concept of activist affordances and how disabled individuals create livable worlds for themselves. The book discusses innovative concepts such as shrinkage, the habitus of ableism, and visual ethnography, offering insights into the experiences of disabled individuals and the challenges they face. Dokumaci's scholarship is relevant to various fields, including anthropology, performance studies, occupational therapy, and sustainability studies. The book has received praise from scholars and readers alike, resonating with their own experiences and providing strategies to navigate difficult times. [Extracted from the article]

This article analyzes convergences in the ways that both deafness and autism are framed as crises that require immediate (and often expensive) professional intervention. Parents receive messages that failure to therapeutically intervene will prevent their children from living normative lives. We demonstrate how therapy techniques such as Auditory Verbal Therapy and Applied Behavioral Analysis have proliferated to address these crises. We explore the development of professional organizations and training programs devoted to AVT and ABA and we consider how AVT and ABA professionals define "optimal outcomes" that are supposedly achieved when diagnosis is removed or declassified. In contrast to professional views, we argue for alternative perceptions of these therapeutic processes and their ostensible outcomes based on accounts by d/Deaf and Autistic adults. In addition, we argue that the (neutral) language of outcomes obscures the active work required and backgrounds the different kinds of labor and ideologies at play. While AVT and ABA experts argue that it is increasingly possible to achieve optimal outcomes, we question the sensory and relational costs of these outcomes and the way that they prevent other ways of being, sensing, and communicating from taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that text is in Easy Read format because scientific articles are difficult for most people to understand as it is important that there are simple texts for all people to learn about anti-ability and the title is not adapted to the easy-to-read format as difficult words or phrases appear in the text and these words are explained in comments in this PDF.

The article focuses on incorporating an anti-capacity perspective in research and in professional action aimed at people with disabilities. Topics include examines this perspective breaks with the process of oppression experienced by people with disabilities throughout history and incorporates the political struggle of this social group for the guarantee of human rights and social justice.

Assistive technologies (AT) perform an important social role, interacting with cultural systems to produce or hinder accessibility to biosocial environments. This interaction profoundly shapes not only how an individual body can be experienced by users but also produce and hinder accessibility to biosocial environments. AT users have historically been viewed through a medical model, which deems them disabled by their impairments and by dominant ableist narratives. Therefore, this paper serves to provide an insight into the importance of ageing with and into AT. This paper aims to investigate polio survivors' and diabetic amputees' experiences of assistive technologies in order to better understand impacts upon narrative and identity. By applying an anthropological and sociological lens, a holistic view of the experiences of polio survivor and amputee AT users is developed. This paper draws on 16 in-depth interviews with polio survivors and diabetic amputees in the United States (US) and Australia, which were analysed using an experience-centered narrative approach. Both projects were approved by ethics boards. All participants provided written consent. Five themes were identified: a) disruption to biographies, which reflected AT impact on how narratives become altered; b) impacts to autonomy, which reflected the importance of regaining previous daily activities; c) re-engaging with community life, which highlighted how AT supported participation in valued activities; d) self-perceptions of assistive technologies, which act in opposition to external perspectives and challenge ableist narratives; and e) an intergenerational comparison of new and older AT users highlights the importance of temporalities. This paper offers new perspectives on ageing with assistive technologies, with a focus on identity and narrative. The importance of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature that demonstrates the cultural implications that arise through embodiment and assistive technologies. The use of assistive technology can help individuals regain function, but the individual circumstances require consideration The use of assistive technology is a complex entanglement of bodies, environments, biographies, and imagined futures. The use of assistive technology can provide participants autonomy over their narratives and assist with maintaining their identities [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]