My current area of research looks at the intersections of disability and music education. I am expanding upon earlier work concerning music making within the Deaf community. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, I draw upon Deaf studies, Sociology, philosophical perspectives of music education, and narrative inquiry. I apply ethnographic and sociological methods to better understand insider perspectives of disability-related issues. Most recently, I have written about identity politics in education, erasure of disability, and attending to signed-singing (Deaf musicians) toward fostering anti-ableist musical pedagogies. In terms of larger social implications, my work considers the way that members of disability cultures use music making to counter ableism and how this might promote efforts toward inclusion and educational equity. This research is an extension of my own experience as both a hard-of-hearing person and a music teacher with over 30 years of teaching experience.