Disability: Some sources for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University


Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 29 September 2007

Albertini, John A., Bonnie Meath-Lang, and David P. Harris.  "Voice as Muse, Message, and Medium:  The Views of Deaf College Students."  Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry.  Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.  172-190. 

Barber-Fendley, Kimber, and Chris Hamel.  "A New Visibility:  An Argument for Alternative Assistance Writing Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities." College Composition and Communication 55.3 (February 2004):  504-536.

Brueggemann, Brenda Jo, et al.  "Becoming Visible:  Lessons in Disability."  College Composition and Communication 52.3 (February 2001):  368-398. 

Carmichael, Stephen, and Peg Alden. "The Advantages of Using Electronic Processes for Commenting on and Exchanging the Written Work of Students with Learning Disabilities and/or AD/HD." Composition Studies 34.2 (Fall 2006): 43-58.

Davis, Lennard J.  "Deafness and Insight:  The Deafened Moment as a Critical Modality."  College English 57.8 (December 1995):  881-900. 

Davis, Lennard J., ed.  The Disability Studies Reader.  New York:  Routledge, 1997. 

Dunn, Patricia A.  Learning Re-Abled:  The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann, 1995. 

Gaby, a True Story. Dir. Luis Mandoki. Perf. Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Robert Loggia, Rachel Levin, Lawrence Monoson, and Robert Beltran. 1987.

Gardner, Susan, and Toby Fulwiler, eds.  The Journal Book for Teachers of At-Risk Students.  Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1999. 

Hawkes, Lory. "When Compassion Isn't Enough: Providing Fair and Equivalent Access to Writing Help for Students with Disabilities." The Writing Center Director's Resource Book. Ed. Christina Murphy and Byron L. Stay. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. 371-378.

Jung, Julie. "Textual Mainstreaming and Rhetorics of Accommodation." Rhetoric Review 26.2 (2007): 160-178.

Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia, and Brenda Jo Brueggemann. Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2007.

Loewenstein, Andrea Freud.  "My Learning Disability:  A (Digressive) Essay."  College English 66.6 (July 2004):  585-602. 

Lunsford, Scott. "Seeking a Rhetoric of the Rhetoric of Dis/abilities." Rhetoric Review 24.4 (2005): 330-333.

McAlexander, Patricia J., Ann B. Dobie, and Noel Gregg.  Beyond the "SP" Label:  Improving the Spelling of Learning Disabled and Basic Writers.  Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 1992.

McLeod, Susan, and Kathy Jane Garretson.  "The Disabled Student and the Writing Program:  A Guide for Administrators."  WPA:  Writing Program Administration 13.1-2 (1989):  45.52. 

McRuer, Robert.  "Composing Bodies;  or, De-Composition:  Queer Theory, Disability Studies, and Alternative Corporealities."  JAC 24.1 (2004):  47-78. 

Mossman, Mark.  "Visible Disability in the College Classroom."  College English 64.6 (July 2002):  645-659. 

Price, Margaret. "Assessing Disability: A Nondisabled Student Works the Hyphen." College Composition and Communication 59.1 (Sept. 2007): 53-76.

Rinaldi, Jacqueline.  "Rhetoric and Healing:  Revising Narratives about Disability."  College English 58.7 (November 1996):  820-34. 

Stremlau, Tonya M.  "Language Policy, Culture, and Disability:  ASL and English." Rhetoric Review 22.2 (2003):  184-189. 

Vidali, Amy. "Performing the Rhetorical Freak Show: Disability, Student Writing, and College Admissions." College English 69.6 (July 2007): 615-641.

White, Linda Feldmeier.  "Learning Disability, Pedagogies, and Public Discourse."  College Composition and Communication 53.4 (June 2002):  705-738.

White, Terra. "Learning Disabilities Among the Incarcerated." Reflections 4.1.

Wilson, James C., and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, eds.  Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2001.