Wiley’s Walk
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Writing by Kerry Ann Wiley about disability, adaptation, participation, and the difference between access and inclusion.
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Function, Delayed
Function narrows before anyone calls it loss. The first change was subtle. The sensation between the ring finger and pinky on the left hand felt off. It was numb, but not in a way that was complete or alarming, just dulled enough…
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Blue Without Boundary
The last notification fades and the screen goes dark. The reflex to reach for it again stays. The name that might have been checked doesn’t appear: no mark of absence, only a space where nothing arrives. A faint residue remains, not quite…
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Accessible, But Not Usable: The Gap That Limits Participation
There are moments when barriers are easy to recognize. A building may have a step at its entrance without a ramp. A service may not be offered at all. A doorway may exist but cannot be used by everyone. These situations are…
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Misaligned
The floor isn’t where it should be. The doors open. The step lands, then misreads, doesn’t quite meet. A quick jolt. The doors close. Next. It repeats. The step meets too soon. A check in the motion. Already past. Gone. It happens again. Not the same way twice. The body…
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Beyond Reaction: The Work of Sustaining Inclusion
In the recent Wiley’s Walk article “The Infrastructure of Inclusion: What Is at Risk”, the focus moves beyond proposed changes to disability services to consider something less visible but more consequential, the conditions that make participation possible. The move to consolidate funding…
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The Infrastructure of Inclusion: What Is at Risk
There is a shift underway in how disability services are being defined at the federal level. It is not being presented as a reduction, but as a restructuring intended to streamline programs, consolidate funding, and return authority to the states. The framing…
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Still — not empty.
By Kerry A. Wiley Not everything that lingers is unfinished.Some things remain because they no longer need to move — Between holding on and letting go,nothing is forced,nothing is missing. Still — not empty.The moment remains. Nothing rushed, nothing taken back.Contact stays…
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Before the Turn
It starts before it shows. Just before a storm breaks,the air goes still.The trees stop moving.Sound drops out of everything at once. Pressure buildswithout direction. The pause stretches—held longer than expected,with no signof what comes next. Before the TurnBy Kerry A. Wiley…
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Nothing Ahead
by Kerry A. Wiley It comes the way certain dreams do, already in motion, a road that feels knownwithout ever being seen. The outline holds, as if something aheadhas already happened, and is waiting. A frame in the distance,not finished, but near.…
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Beginnings
Where land thins into water,the ground gives way without warning. Sand slipping underfoot.Forms never quite hold—they soften and shiftbefore they settle. Time moves differently,not slower or faster,just less certain. Moments hover in place,as if undecided,unsure whether to continueor remain. Then, a break.…