Adapt Design

We are passionate about healthcare and design research, especially surrounding disability.

[Danielle Campoamor @DCampoamor]

If you're a person w/a disability, either mental or physical, & you're willing to share how watching businesses suddenly provide work accommodations w/little to no issue makes you feel I'd love to speak to you for @TeenVogue. DMs are open or you can email me @ [email protected]

[Alice Wong @DisVisibility]

@AdaptDsgn More articles & stories here: https://t.co/q1meGYDQsM

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

@lr_murphy Adding @AimiHamraie’s resource to this thread https://t.co/KBLeB41fHz

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

If classes don’t translate well to online delivery, maybe that means they weren’t all that accessible in the first place 🤔 maybe we can use the #COVID19 closures to examine how fundamentally ableist so much of higher ed is.

[Emily Ladau @emily_ladau]

@AdaptDsgn @UMich @annieelainey @VilissaThompson @DisVisibility A good resource from @AimiHamraie: https://t.co/ldmkPMMyEA

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

@emily_ladau @UMich @annieelainey @VilissaThompson @DisVisibility @AimiHamraie Love this - thank you for sharing! Especially love the specific prompts that instructors can provide to students because so many instructors don’t have the basic training for best practices in online learning

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

Tagging our fav disability advocates - Any resources you’d point us to? Navigating the shut down of @umich. @annieelainey @emily_ladau @VilissaThompson @DisVisibility

[Laura Murphy @lr_murphy]

Alternatively: how do we best support instructors to provide inclusive, equitable, high quality online content with little to no lead time? #coronavirus #umich

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

@lr_murphy Quick guide on digital content accessibility, not related to video content but potentially helpful for increased digital content in the coming months https://t.co/0QQdRl2YOj

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

Loving these videos! https://t.co/lmwOFpOXCm

[Emily Ladau @emily_ladau]

Feeling the love for the disability community today and uh...got a little carried away designing my #DisabilityValentines.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! 💖

[Denise DiNoto @deescribes]

Roses are red,
Ableism is bad,
My wheelchair is liberating
And shouldn't make you sad.
#DisabilityValentines

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

New blog post exploring barriers in health insurance --> What Happens to Insurance When You Quit Your Job https://t.co/CxXimxmv8K

[Amy Sekhar♿️ @frocine]

#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut A thread. As a former faculty member, I have heard several colleagues complain about accommodations as being frivolous. If they are willing to say these things in front of a very visibly disabled colleague, what do they say behind closed doors? 1/

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

The Adapt team is taking a break from social media as part of our upcoming deep-dive into #health research. However, we will be posting thoughts/updates/findings on our new @Medium page, if you are interested in keeping tabs, you can find the link here: https://t.co/wTx25gM7Jw

[Sara Whitestone @saramckw]

@emily_ladau Perhaps we would avoid this problem if disabled folks were supported to work and do research in science and biotech in the first place! #AcademicAbleism

[Emily Ladau @emily_ladau]

9 million views on a stair-climbing wheelchair video won't help me enter a store with stairs. And much of the tech in viral videos isn't on the market or it's prohibitively expensive. I'm all about problem-solving but social media contributes to over-complication of basic access.

[Adapt Design @AdaptDsgn]

@emily_ladau So much harm when designers and engineers believe that designing for disability means creating the bionic human or something. In reality it’s normal people trying to do normal everyday things

[Emily Ladau @emily_ladau]

Viral videos on innovations that will "change" disabled people's live can be cool to watch, but they also encourage false hope and unrealistic views of how accessible the world actually is. We need to balance dreaming up innovations with providing practical access here and now.