Climate change, hunger and food insecurity, and forced migration – the world’s complex problems require thinking that is broad and creative, from across academic disciplines. Practicing interdisciplinarity is easier said than done, however. Disciplinary training, teaching demands, and the surprisingly sticky issue of campus geography tend to isolate faculty members.
Deborah Kisatsky, associate professor of history tells a Taoist story of luck.
One winter’s evening years ago, I watched scores of visitors, adults, and children from many countries and continents gather around Associate Professor Esteban Loustaunau in D’Alzon Library. Assumption had brought our guests over from Training Resources of America (TRA), but of course they had traveled far greater distances.
Imagine being a parent of a nonverbal child with autism and wanting nothing more than to communicate with your child, to know his/her thoughts, hopes, and dreams. Imagine, too, there was a therapy that unlocked those lines of communication. Decades ago, “facilitated communication” (FC) was thought to be that therapy.
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