Modes of ordering disability: students living with visual disabilities in the Sultanate of OmanFootnote^*

* This article was initially presented at Dilemmas for Human Services 2015: Organizing, Designing and Managing, conference in Växjö, Sweden in September 2015. It was revised based on the comments from the conference and later evolved into this article.

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