How research informs pedagogy -- Case Study 1: Student involvement in autism spectrum disorder media research -- Case Study 2: Traumatic brain injury, media design and media literacy -- Experiential final project: media redesign -- The assignment design -- Assignment outcomes -- Student reflection outcomes -- Rewards, considerations and takeaways -- Something is better than nothing -- Incorporating speakers into class discussions and assessment -- Debriefing students after speakers -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 11 Enhancing campus accessibility: A disability studies approach to teaching technical communication -- Get grounded -- Examine the complexity of terms -- Critique the models of disability -- Assess political junctures -- Campus accessibility project -- Project overview -- Discussions to have with students -- On access -- On the ADA -- On universal design (UD) -- On disability advocacy -- Introduce the project to students -- Create a needs assessment and write a proposal -- The needs assessment -- The proposal -- Develop prototypes -- Generate a usability test -- Compose the recommendation report -- Go on ... give it a try -- Note -- References -- 12 Exploring the intersection of ableism, image-.building and hegemonic masculinity in the political communication ... -- Introduction -- Image-building in modern democracies -- Image and body politics in disability studies -- The politics of hegemonic masculinity and its intersections with disability -- Bringing disability into political communication classrooms: activities for engagement -- Lesson One, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: the "quintessential" supercrip -- Lesson Two, Greg Abbott: a modern day supercrip ... and superman -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13 Unleashing disability perspectives in the public speaking course -- Introduction -- The need to include disability studies