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22 Advocacy Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

Disability in Heaven papers

Last week, my good friend Barb Newman died. Barb was a fierce advocate for disabled students in schools and I was fortunate to get to know her the past few years as a board member for All Belong (formerly CLC Network) where Barb worked. Barb…

Kevin TimpeSeptember 21, 2020

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IEPs and CLPs (Contingency Learning Plans)

Earlier this week, the Michigan Department of Education released this document with guidance following MI's Return to Learn Roadmap specifically for students with IEPs. As a number of articles have pointed out, many disabled students seem to have been disproportionately disadvantaged by the switch to…

Kevin TimpeAugust 27, 2020

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Developing Inclusive Schools discussion

One of my colleagues in the education department here at Calvin, Debra Buursma, teaches a graduate course on Developing Inclusive Schools. Two years ago, her class walked through the manuscript for my Disability and Inclusive Communities as I was making final revisions. Last week, I…

Kevin TimpeJuly 8, 2020

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Song about autistic children’s experiences

I'm teaching a course on disability culture ("Disability Rights and Pride") this term. Our primary book is Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. One of the issues that comes up in Clare's book is the cultural assumptions about being disabled, assumptions that made his…

Kevin TimpeMarch 3, 2020

A grey-scale icon of Jesus, three children, a woman, and a man. The icon, by Tom Clark, is at the top of the cover of Kinard's book.

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Of Such is the Kingdom

Yesterday I stared reading Summer Kindard's new book, Of Such is the Kingdom: A Practical Theology of Disability. I'm a little over 100 pages in (out of a total of around 260) and so far it's perhaps the best single book I know of on…

Kevin TimpeFebruary 16, 2020

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Podcast on autistic adults and parents of autistic kids

A few weeks back, I had friends Ellen Stumbo and Carlyle King, both of whom are absolutely fantastic, come guest lecture in my January disability class. After the class we had a great conversation ranging over a number of topics. But much of it is…

Kevin TimpeFebruary 4, 2020

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Inclusive Hymns, Exclusive Language

(This post is related to this earlier one.) I've been thinking about theological/liturgical language a fair bit over the past few days. This past sunday, one of the hymns our church sang was "Be Thou My Vision." It's a hymn that I've liked for a…

Kevin TimpeJanuary 7, 2020

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Know My Faith videos

Last year, I travelled to Oklahoma to record a few short videos for Know My Faith. Each is only about 10 minutes. "Disability and Human Dependence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfKkq3lpDSk#action=share "The Church, Belonging, and Shalom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFaueEjqw14#action=share

Kevin TimpeJanuary 7, 2020

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the start of 2020

I wasn't nearly as regular posting last year as I would have liked. I'm hoping to do better in the coming year. January is going to start off the year with a fair number of speaking engagements. My primary work responsibility is a three-week intensive…

Kevin TimpeJanuary 5, 2020

Photograph of Kevin Timpe talking in front of abstract art. He's wearing a lovely plaid shirt. Bottle water and two microphones are visible in front of him.

22 Advocacy Talks & Lectures

Disability Advocacy and the Demands of Justice

A video of the talk I gave in September 2019 at the University of North Carolina at Asheville on "Disability Advocacy and the Demands of Justice" can be seen HERE.

Kevin TimpeOctober 11, 2019

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Disability in Heaven papers

IEPs and CLPs (Contingency Learning Plans)

Developing Inclusive Schools discussion

Song about autistic children’s experiences

Of Such is the Kingdom

Podcast on autistic adults and parents of autistic kids

Inclusive Hymns, Exclusive Language

Know My Faith videos

the start of 2020

Disability Advocacy and the Demands of Justice

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