{"id":123914,"date":"2022-02-11T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/?p=123914"},"modified":"2022-02-11T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:35:45","slug":"dr-priya-lalvani-interviewed-by-nj-spotlight-news-on-teaching-about-ableism-and-disability-issues-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/2022\/02\/11\/dr-priya-lalvani-interviewed-by-nj-spotlight-news-on-teaching-about-ableism-and-disability-issues-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Priya Lalvani Interviewed by NJ Spotlight News on Teaching about Ableism and Disability Issues in the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~lalvanip\">Dr. Priya Lalvani<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/teaching-and-learning\">Teaching and Learning Department<\/a>, was recently interviewed by <em>NJ Spotlight News\u00a0<\/em>regarding teaching ableism and disability issues in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States, yet advocates say they\u2019re left out of the conversation when it comes to understanding their contributions to society. A law was passed that requires school districts to teach about the contributions of disabled people throughout history.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.njspotlightnews.org\/video\/new-law-to-require-school-districts-to-teach-about-disabilities-and-disabled-people\/\">Watch Dr. Lalvani&#8217;s Interview<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Additionally, Dr. Lalvani participated in two webinars with New Jersey All People Equal (NJAPE). NJAPE advocates for inclusive movement, social skills, and wellness services for individuals with disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Priya Lalvani, Professor in the Teaching and Learning Department, was recently interviewed by NJ Spotlight News\u00a0regarding teaching ableism and disability issues in the classroom. People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States, yet advocates say they\u2019re left out of the conversation when it comes to understanding their contributions to society. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":123915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23_college-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/ceel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}