What It Means to Be Literate A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia.

"Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible. Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as such) who are denied full literacy education and...

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Main Author: Miller, Elisabeth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022
Series:Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. What disability and literacy mean together : ableist violence and a disability materiality approach to literacy
  • Centering communicative disability and communicative access in literacy research
  • Feeling less than literate : the material consequences of a normate template
  • Embodying literacy : from compulsory to complex
  • Exceeding ableist literate norms : toward literacy disability ecologies
  • Conclusion. What disability materiality means for approaches to literacy.