Editors' Introduction: Centering Disability in Literacy.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Phuong, Jennifer; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Campano, Gerald
- Source
- Research in the Teaching of English; Feb2022, Vol. 56 Issue 3, p241-244, 4p
- Subject
- Literacy
Disabilities
Classrooms
Children with disabilities
Health literacy
Rett syndrome
- Language
- ISSN
- 0034527X
The article presents the discussion on people with disabilities describing as one of the largest minoritized groups in the US. Topics include students with disabilities often marginalized within the field of literacy in particular positioning as lacking even the capacity being literate; and addressing racism without considering sexism and/or cis-sexism ultimately reifying harmful systems multiplying marginalized.