CNY disability expert worries federal announcements on autism are damaging and confusing (WAER | Sept. 25, 2025) Autism is in the spotlight after health and government officials in Washington claimed it can be caused by acetaminophen. A Central New York expert on disability and inclusion said she believes the statements can dangerously change perceptions of| Syracuse University School of Education
Preferred Name: Annabelle Rockne Pronouns: she/her Program/Major: Biology (major), Disability Studies (minor), (alum, HBS ’25) “I initially heard about the disability studies program from a presentation given in a training when I was an orientation leader. I thought the program sounded incredibly interesting and it was a program that seemed to align well with my […]| SCHOOL FOR CULTURAL & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
I wrote about Valentin Haüy and his founding of the first school for blind children in 1785 in There Plant Eyes. My dear friend David Lowe, who is a photo specialist in the Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library, read my book (Thanks, David!), and because he did, when he saw Valentin Haüy’s…| M. Leona Godin
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…| Sounding Out!
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. –Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five On an almost visceral level, we may likewise remark that states of “latency” involve downward movement, as in the case of something falling by the wayside and lying unnoticed until its presence is felt. — Hans Gumbrecht, After 1945: Latency as Origin of […]| Sounding Out!
*As a 2023-24 Diamonstein-Spielvogal Fellow at the New York Public Library, I was asked to give a public lecture in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities on March 8, 2024 called: “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze.” Below is the recording of the lecture—including questions from the star-studded audience!—followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my lecture… Read more The post Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze * NYPL Public Lecture appeared f...| M. Leona Godin
