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For Those Who Care podcast

This summer, Allison and I were on our dear friend RuthAnn's podcast about caregiving, For Those Who Care. It ended…

22 Advocacy Podcast & Radio Interviews Uncategorized

This summer, Allison and I were on our dear friend RuthAnn's podcast about caregiving, For Those Who Care. It ended up being a long two-day conversation that RuthAnn broke down into five separate episodes of the podcast. I've collected all five episodes here with brief…

Kevin TimpeJuly 28, 2025

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Ableism in the Academy Resources

Talks from the Ableism in the Academy Workshop: Books:Dolmage, Academic Ableism (available here as a free PDF)Brown, Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia: Strategies for Inclusion in Higher EducationBrown and Leigh (eds), Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher EducationMcMaster…

Kevin TimpeSeptember 22, 2024

22 Advocacy Podcast & Radio Interviews Talks & Lectures

Autism Awareness and the Church

I was recently on the Faith Unaltered podcast to talk about autism. Tyler, the host, asked some really good questions and I was pleased with the discussion. There was worthwhile stuff we didn't get to, so at some point in the future there may be…

Kevin TimpeSeptember 20, 2024

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Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue

I was a visiting scholar at the Civil Rights and Civic Virtues Society at Auburn University at Montgomery this past summer. My presentation was “Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue.” A recording of that presentation can be watched on YouTube here.

Kevin TimpeJuly 23, 2024

Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

Can We Flourish Together When Some are Left Out?

I was asked to give a public talk for the 2024 CICW Disability and Ministry Workshop. The title of that talk is "Can We Flourish Together When Some are Let Out? Intellectual Disability and Care in Our Churches." A recording of that presentation can be…

Kevin TimpeJune 30, 2024

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Preferential option for the weak, poor, and disabled

I've noted before (for instance, here and here) about how ableist metaphors and assumptions find their way into what churches say, sing, and affirm in their liturgies. Such language reflects what Amos Yong calls ‘normate biases’–"the unexamined prejudices that non-disabled people have toward disabilities and…

Kevin TimpeNovember 8, 2022

Papers & Presentations Talks & Lectures

NASSP

Conference handout here. Longer draft paper here (please do not cite or circulate without permission).

Kevin TimpeJuly 12, 2022

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Learn from autistics

One of the unfortunate things about how parents usually receive diagnoses for their autistic children is that almost all of the resources they're given are about rather than by autistic people. This is especially problematic for folks who don't know autistic adults. While doctors, therapists,…

Kevin TimpeMay 9, 2022

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Articles & Essays Ethics Papers & Presentations Philosophy Talks & Lectures

Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice

The pandemic has forced another conference for me online. I'm supposed to be in Baltimore for the Eastern APA this week, given a paper as part of a session run by the Society for Philosophy of Emotion. But alas, I'll be giving my talk from…

Kevin TimpeJanuary 6, 2022

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Autistic Exclusion at Churches

I've written and talked about how churches are often among the most unwelcoming places for disabled folks. HERE is an excellent post on how churches often make autistics feel unwelcome. While this may be unintentional, that doesn't mean it's not a problem. In my experience,…

Kevin TimpeAugust 20, 2021

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IEP training meeting handout

Earlier this summer, I advocated for a local family. They'd been stonewalled repeatedly by their local public school district and got my name from a FB group. We had a five hour IEP meeting where I was able to help the family get nearly everything…

Kevin TimpeJuly 12, 2021

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Requiring dehumanization as the means to support

David Perry has again written something absolutely fabulous, about how our social systems require us to think of, quantify, and characterize disabled children in order to get support. Over the past few nights, I've been slowly working through the Vineland-3 Adaptive Behavior Scale, which is…

Kevin TimpeMarch 9, 2021

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Isolation

My friend Ellen Stumbo recently wrote this excellent post, which unfortunately captures so much of our experience. I strongly recommend you read the whole post. But here's a taste: Over time, as my two children with disabilities have become older, the isolation has continued to…

Kevin TimpeFebruary 9, 2021

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A Sibling’s Perspective

Our kids are in the "love Lego" stage of life (which I hope they never grow out of). For the past few years, we've given them Lego Advent calendars, which they greatly enjoy. This year, we got them one and my parents got them another.…

Kevin TimpeDecember 14, 2020

22 Advocacy Articles & Essays Uncategorized

The Crippled Lamb

I recently became aware of a children's book by Max Lucado, entitled The Crippled Lamb, because a local private school thought it would be appropriate to have an elementary class reenact it. If you ever think it might be good to reenact the story, or…

Kevin TimpeDecember 11, 2020

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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

Talks & Lectures

Podcast on Free Will

Last summer, I was able to take an amazing trip to Bogota to be part of this fabulous project, teaching down there for two days. While there, I recorded a podcast about some of my work; you can listen to it here (and find the…

Kevin TimpeAugust 21, 2020

22 Advocacy Podcast & Radio Interviews

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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22 Advocacy Book Reviews Uncategorized

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

For Those Who Care podcast

For Those Who Care podcast

Ableism in the Academy Resources

Autism Awareness and the Church

Religious Freedom, Disability Discrimination, and Civic Virtue

Can We Flourish Together When Some are Left Out?

Preferential option for the weak, poor, and disabled

NASSP

Learn from autistics

Anger and Moral Struggle in Light of Systemic Injustice

Autistic Exclusion at Churches

IEP training meeting handout

Requiring dehumanization as the means to support

Isolation

A Sibling’s Perspective

The Crippled Lamb

Disability in Heaven papers

IEPs and CLPs (Contingency Learning Plans)

Podcast on Free Will

Developing Inclusive Schools discussion

Song about autistic children’s experiences

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