Studies before the ATS policy concluded that there was little representation of people with disability in any capacity. There was a call by Anderson and Blair to introduce students to disability through exposure and study.
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In 2001, Robert Anderson and W.Daniel Blair surveyed ATS member schools1 and found little representation of disability concerns (via curricula or by accommodation for students with disability) in North American theological education. Anderson used these data to argue for what he called “infusing” graduate theological education with disability.
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Robert c. Anderson, ed., Graduate Theological Education and the Human Experience of Disability, (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003). ↩