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  Disability and Accessibility in the Voice Studio: An Open Educational Resource

  Katherine Meizel and Anne Slovin

  Disability and Accessibility in the Voice Studio is the first collection of its kind, bringing together seventeen singers and voice teachers to share personal and professional experience with disability. The editors envision it as an entry point to disability for students and instructors of voice pedagogy courses, as well as for singers and teachers. It is designed to allow users to choose from a variety of topics presented in diverse styles, and in multiple learning modes—and in the process it illustrates important forms of accessibility. The overall purposes of the resource include: 1) to support a larger movement toward the development of accessible pedagogical practices; 2) to offer space for disabled singers and voice teachers to share their lived experiences, and their strategies for navigating learning and professional environments that tend to exclude them; and thus 3) to foster the recognition of possibility among disabled voice students and their teachers. The editors hope that the collection will open doors to further conversation about inclusivity and the incredible diversity of singing bodies.

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  World Music Textbook Complete Sample Course

  Christopher Witulski, Kristina Nielsen, and Jessie M. Vallejo

  These sample modules are here to be useful to educators considering incorporating materials from the World Music Textbook into their courses. They are licensed with a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA policy, which allows permission to revise or reuse them as you see fit, as long as it is for non-commercial purposes and you, in turn, maintain the same open license. You can find other versions of document at the World Music Textbook site. The “No Change” clause refers to publication: you can make any edits you would like for your own classes, but we ask that you let us know if you have any suggestions or additions so that we can publish new versions whenever possible!

  These samples are designed as a complete course to be delivered over a university semester. They are organized as an online asynchronous series of modules, but they could be revised into an organization for a live delivery, as well. You are welcome to copy and paste them directly with basic attribution, though the World Music Textbook is constantly adding new content, so we recommend visiting the page to see if there are other chapters or resources that you might want to incorporate.

  There are some parts of this where I (Chris Witulski, as the initial author) focus on topics or approaches that I use in my own teaching. Anyone adapting these modules can shift away from my perspective to their own. Similarly, I created this for use in my own classes and I draw on some resources that we have or that I have requested from our library. I use a number of films, for example, that may not be available everywhere. I am leaving them out, but I recommend checking with your library for interesting additions to the readings. And please let us know if you have any ideas for other resources that work well. We can add them to the site or shift some of these assignment suggestions into lists that enable student choice.

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  Clinical Application Of Therapeutic Modalities

  Andrea Cripps

  Clinical Application of Therapeutic Modalities is a free, openly licensed lab manual for athletic training and rehabilitation students. Its 13 chapters cover cryotherapy, thermotherapy, ultrasound, shock wave therapy, electrical stimulation, biofeedback, diathermy, laser, manual therapies, traction, and intermittent compression. Each chapter includes lab activities that build safe, hands-on clinical application skills.

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  Creative Translation for Real-World Contexts: English ↔ Spanish

  Remy Attig

  Creative Translation for Real-World Contexts is one of the first translation textbooks designed for Spanish/English speakers at an intermediate-high (B2) level. This book introduces students to the basic ideas of translation while addressing frequent pain points that recur when working bidirectionally. Additionally, a focus is placed on fostering metacognitive skills by encouraging creative translation from real-world environments such as narration, business, advertising, specialized contexts (including inclusive and queer language), and in situations when there are no clear translations available, such as sci-fi and fantasy works. Chapters alternate between Spanish and English as the languages of discussion, thus providing an equitable challenge for native speakers of both languages.

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  Succeeding at Your Internship: A Handbook Written for and with Students

  Christopher J. Mruk and John C. Moor

  There are several textbooks for students whose majors include internships in human services, broadly defi­­­ned, such as case management, counseling, criminal justice, and social work. Most of these books are written in an academic format. Typically, it involves an introduction to a theoretical orientation that concerns working with others followed by a series of chapters devoted to learning professional skills associated with a given discipline. This approach is fine, as far as it goes, but also has two drawbacks. One is that the texts are usually sold by main stream publishers, which means they are expensive. Another is that they seldom address what might be described as the experiential dimension of the internship that most beginners face on their own. This new book addresses both concerns. The fact that it is offered as a free text addresses the first issue, of course, but the second one requires a new approach. It began with asking students to talk about what they experienced when going through their first internship and what they would tell others about how to make it a successful one. That work led to a structured narrative about basic practical topics, such as finding an internship, getting started there, making effective use of supervision, understanding ethics, appreciating cultural diversity, becoming competent, and completing the internship. The text includes descriptions, suggestions, and exercises. It may be used as either a primary course text or, due to its relative brevity, a supplemental one. Although the lead editor is an experienced clinician and professor who has supervised internships for a variety of human services majors over many years, the book was written with and for students to make it more readable and more useful.

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