@KarlyBall3

Disability/chronic illness, higher ed. policy, mixed methods. Baking enthusiast. @gwgsehd, @UvaBatten, and @WakeForest alum

 Houston, TX
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Joined March 2018
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Karly Ball Isaacson, Ph.D.@KarlyBall3Mar 2
I’m looking for a few people with progressive disabilities to serve as low-lift advisory readers on a paper about how students narrate the purpose/value of higher ed beyond ROI. You’d review an RQ + 3 short theme summaries and share whether they resonate. DM if interested!
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I’m looking for a few people with progressive disabilities to serve as low-lift advisory readers on a paper about how students narrate the purpose/value of higher ed beyond ROI. You’d review an RQ + 3 short theme summaries and share whether they resonate. DM if interested!
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All advisory readers would receive an acknowledgement in the paper, should they want one 😊
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Excited to share this recent interview I did with @ABADisability on disability-related financial concerns for disabled college students!
ABA Commission on Disability Rights@ABADisabilityFeb 26
Introducing our new interview series, In-Conversation: Disability Rights & Policy! First up: @KarlyBall3, Ph.D., discusses how disability-related financial concerns shape college decisions for disabled students: americanbar.org/groups/diver…

Counting the Costs: How Disability-Related Expenses Shape College Decisions

The ABA Commission on Disability Rights recently interviewed Karly Ball Isaacson, Ph.D., one of the researchers of the 2025 study, Counting the Costs: A Proposed Conceptual Model of Disabled Studen...

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This is HUGE news in the chronic illness community. It’s also a beautiful reminder of the fact that chronically ill folks are living longer and healthier lives than ever before. ❤️ This means that we have got to plan better for these folks in spaces like higher education.
Nicholas Fabiano, MD
@NTFabiano25 Sep 2025
Huntington's disease was successfully treated for the first time with gene therapy. 75% reduction in symptoms & 113% protection of cognition. This is what a real medical breakthrough looks like.
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A lot of disabilities are costly, but chronic illnesses tend to be especially. Financial aid offices/forms haven’t caught up to accounting for these expenses. VR can help, but VR varies so much by state + folks don’t often know about the postsecondary 💰 support they offer.
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If you know a chronically ill student who wants to go to college 1) Help them apply for VR in their state 2) Tell them about the unusual expense amendment they can submit with their FAFSA 3) Encourage them to reach out to financial aid offices to ask about med. expense support
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Excited to share the first article from my dissertation, just published in The Journal of Higher Education! It’s about how disability-related financial barriers shape college decisions for disabled students. View the full open access article here: doi.org/10.1080/00221546.202…

Counting the Costs: A Proposed Conceptual Model of Disabled Students’ College-Going Decisions

In this qualitative study, we interviewed 20 disabled four-year college students to explore how disability-related financial concerns influenced their college decision-making processes. Findings hi...

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We were thrilled to work with @DiverseIssues to publish this op-ed on friendship development among autistic college students, relating to our recent article on the same topic. Check it out here! diverseeducation.com/opinion…

Autistic Students are Building Community: Colleges Just Need to Listen

In a time when public discourse too often distorts what it means to be autistic, colleges have a unique opportunity—and responsibility—to listen to autistic students themselves.

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Replying to @AERA_EdResearch
@AERA_EdResearch 2026 proposals are due in ONE WEEK! Do you have a mixed methods study you are submitting? Submit to the MMR SIG and present your research with other mixed methods scholars! @AERADivDGrad @AERA_Div_D @MMIRAssociation
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Our PEACES team is excited to share our second journal article from our nationwide study of #autistic college student success. This piece explores the complexities and nuances of autistic college students' friendship development. And it’s open access! doi.org/10.1080/00221546.202…

“I Always Ended Up Getting Close to Other People Who are Autistic”: Autistic College Students’...

Finding community is often a pivotal component of the college experience. With autistic students on the rise across higher education, an opportunity exists to discover how this marginalized communi...

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Thanks to all who joined us yesterday at our SIG MMR business meeting! We still have TWO amazing sessions this weekend! Join us at TODAY's Roundtable: "From Quantizing to AI: Exploring Current Issues in Mixed Methods Design" (11:40am, Table 4) @AERA_Div_D @MMIRAssociation
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So excited to present with our PEACES team on Sunday! I will also be around for several presentations/events with the MMR SIG and will be supporting a friend’s poster session on Saturday morning if anyone would like to come say hello 😊
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Tee Smith✒Ph.D@DrTee_310 Apr 2025
Don't walk, run!!! We look forward to engaging with volunteers this conference cycle!!!
ASHE@ASHEoffice10 Apr 2025
📣 Volunteer as a Reviewer, Chair, or Discussant for #ASHE2025 — your service helps uphold the quality and integrity of the conference. All career stages welcome! 🔗 ashe.ws/volunteer youtu.be/g9DdR9t9EPE
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Not my typical academic news, but I wrote this short piece for @MSNewsToday and thought I would share. My mom’s advocacy for me is what made me want to advocate for other chronically ill folks as a career. She’s also just the coolest mom 🥰 multiplesclerosisnewstoday.c…

Mother knows best: Advocating for young people living with MS

Karly Isaacson shares how her mom always advocated for her. Now Karly wants to return the favor by helping other young people living with MS.

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The JMMR 👇 invites the submission of papers for a special issue on "Advancing Qualitatively Driven Mixed Methods Research: Tackling Societal Challenges". Email [email protected] #mixedmethods #research
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Thrilled to be joining the Editorial Board for @JDHEtweets this year! I published my 1st paper with JDHE as a grad student. The support I received set the standard for how I think publishing should work, and I can’t wait to support future new scholars in this role 😊
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Trenton M. Haltom, PhD@TMHaltom17 Dec 2024
Qualitative researchers: Run, don't walk, to read this article: Braun et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202…

“Being really confidently wrong”: Qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incong...

Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have...

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