What It Means to Be Literate : A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series .
- Composition, Literacy, and Culture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. What Disability and Literacy Mean Together: Ableist Violence and a Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy -- Chapter 1. Centering Communicative Disability and Communicative Access in Literacy Research -- Chapter 2. Feeling Less than Literate: The Material Consequences of a Normate Template -- Chapter 3. Embodying Literacy: From Compulsory to Complex -- Chapter 4. Exceeding Ableist Literate Norms: Toward Literacy-Disability Ecologies -- Conclusion. What Disability Materiality Means for Approaches to Literacy -- Appendix A. Participants' Chart -- Appendix B. Life History Interview Script -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Offers a New Perspective on Developing More Accessible Research and Teaching Practices and Learning Spaces.