Risk and Dignity in Requesting Signed Language Interpreter Accommodations.

Requesting accommodations such as signed language interpreters in health-care settings is an activity that can present risk to the deaf patient. By providing space for considerations of risk-taking for particular kinds of experiences that are not universally shared, such as interpreter-mediated experiences, the notion of the dignity of risk can be expanded. The author uses two examples of signed language interpreting in health-care settings to demonstrate how the dignity of risk emerges.

Disability, Ethics, and Health Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic.

This article considers key ethical, legal, and medical dilemmas arising for people with disabilities in the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the limited application of existing frameworks of emergency planning with and for people with disabilities in the COVID-19 pandemic, explore key concerns and issues affecting the health care of people with disabilities (i.e.

Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care.

In this essay, we suggest practical ways to shift the framing of crisis standards of care toward disability justice. We elaborate on the vision statement provided in the 2010 Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) "Summary of Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations," which emphasizes fairness; equitable processes; community and provider engagement, education, and communication; and the rule of law. We argue that interpreting these elements through disability justice entails a commitment to both distributive and recognitive justice.

Choosing Accommodations: Signed Language Interpreting and the Absence of Choice.

This paper carves out a topic space for discussion about the ethical question of whether input from signing Deaf consumers of interpreting services ought to be included in the provision of signed language interpreter accommodations. The first section provides background about disability accommodations and practices, including how signed language interpreting accommodations are similar and dissimilar to other kinds of disability accommodations. In the second section, I offer a personal narrative of my experience as a Deaf academic who has been excluded from the interpreter selection process, highlighting some of the harmful consequences of such exclusion.