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After exploring various challenges involved in addressing the needs of students with disabilities, we provide an overview of our program’s efforts to address the needs of students with disabilities. In so doing, we explain how we came to adopt an orientation towards disability that depends for its philosophical force on a return to Derrida’s advocacy of the deconstructive notion of différance. Différance seeks to overturn binary thinking, challenge uninterrogated binaries such as abled/disabled and the normate templates that enact and enforce these, replacing them with a relational, fluid, contextual approach.  \n“[We] must traverse a phase of overturning. To do justice to this necessity is to recognize that in a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-a-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy. One of the two terms governs the other (axiologically, logically, etc. ), or has the upper hand.  \n--Jacques Derrida, “Interview with Julia Kristeva”  \nIntroduction  \nThis profile will briefly trace the formation and development of the Critical Writing Program in its effort, almost from its founding in 2003, to embrace différance, a concept introduced by Derrida to deconstruct binary thinking that unreflectively and inaccurately imagines that we can divide whatever is before us into two terms, one valued and idealized, the other devalued and denigrated. Our profile will explore how disability has become a valued term, a structuring philosophy and a pedagogical touchstone of our writing program. We will begin this profile by giving an overview of the University of Pennsylvania and the development of the Critical Writing Program, including its curriculum. Thereafter we will explore the institutional and program-specific challenges in our effort to meet the needs of students with disabilities, and finally conclude with some of the practices and strategies that our program employs in our continuing effort to identify and replace a diagnostic, identity-based approach, often referred to as “the accommodation model,” with a more fluid, relational approach that better addresses the complexities and contexts that facilitate effective writing instruction and aligns more closely with the social model of disability.  \nBackground: University of Pennsylvania  \nFounded in 1740, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is the fourth oldest university in the nation and arguably the first to introduce a writing program in the vernacular. Located in Philadelphia, this Ivy League institution has twelve graduate and four undergraduate schools (College of Arts & Sciences; Wharton; Engineering, Nursing) . In 2007, Penn became the largest school in the country to offer an all-grant, no-loan financial aid program to its 10,000 undergraduates. This aid substantially altered student demographics by providing access to students from a range of social and economic backgrounds. This year, 47% of students will receive an average of $43,800 in grants and workstudy programs, and those whose parents earn less than $75,000 will receive full funding, including tuition, books, room and board. 48% of the Class of 2021 self-identify as students of color; 16% identify as international; 12% identify as first-generation, and 53% as female. They are drawn from 72 countries and every state in the U.S. Most  \nare well-prepared in terms of conventional measures. 97% are from the top 10% of their high school c","cbCaic9T64tnqKLN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaic9T64tnqKLN","pdf",117916,"English","# From Difference to Différance: Developing a Disability-Centered Writing Program\n## Abstract\n## Introduction\n## Background: University of Pennsylvania\n## The Critical Writing Program","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of this program profile?\",\"answer\":\"It profiles the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on how disability functions as a valued term, organizing philosophy, and pedagogical foundation for its curriculum and practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the program connect disability-centered writing to Derrida’s différance?\",\"answer\":\"It frames disability-centered orientation through Derrida’s deconstructive advocacy of différance to challenge binary thinking and replace it with a relational, fluid, contextual approach.\"},{\"question\":\"What background does the profile provide about the University of Pennsylvania?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Penn’s founding, its schools, and admissions and financial aid context, then sets that institutional background before detailing the Critical Writing Program.\"}]","Composition Forum 39 - From Difference to Différance - Developing a Disability-Centered Writing Program | PDF",1792088013,15]