Disability Studies Quarterly

Disability Studies Quarterly (DSQ) is the journal of the Society for Disability Studies (SDS). It is a multidisciplinary and international journal of interest to social scientists, scholars in the humanities, disability rights advocates, creative writers, and others concerned with the issues of people with disabilities. It represents the full range of methods, epistemologies, perspectives, and content that the multidisciplinary field of disability studies embraces. DSQ is committed to developing theoretical and practical knowledge about disability and to promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society.

Vol 30, No 2 (2010): Learning Disabilities

Table of Contents

2009 SDS Zola & Senior Scholar Award Winners

Visually Experiencing a Phone Call: The Calculated Consumer Labor Deaf People Perform to Gain Access through Video Relay Service Abstract HTML
Jeremy Brunson
Disability Design and Branding: Rethinking Disability within the 21st HTML
Elizabeth Depoy, Stephen Gilson

Interviews

The Art of Disability: An Interview with Tobin Siebers HTML
Mike Levin, Tobin Siebers

Creative Works

A Disability Story HTML
Isaac Stein

Book and Film Reviews

Review of Arguing About Disability HTML
Stephanie Smith
Susan M. Schweik, The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. New York and London: New York University Press, 2009. HTML
Hannah Tweed
Brad Gooch. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor. New York: Little, Brown, 2009. HTML
Kodi Scheer

Special Topic: Learning Disabilities

Introduction to DSQ Special Issue: “Why is There Learning Disabilities?”— Revisiting Christine Sleeter’s Socio-political Construction of Disability Two Decades On Abstract HTML
David J Connor, Beth A Ferri
Why Is There Learning Disabilities? A Critical Analysis of the Birth of the Field in Its Social Context Abstract PDF HTML
Christine Sleeter
Ideology, Institutions, and Equity: Comments on Christine Sleeter's Why Is There Learning Disabilities? Abstract HTML
Thomas M Skrtic, Zach McCall
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Nature and Role of Theory in Learning Disability Labeling Abstract HTML
Deborah Gallagher
States of Exception: Learning Disability and Democracy in New Times HTML
Bernadette Baker
“Telling It Like It Is: The Role of Race, Class, & Culture in the Perpetuation of Learning Disability as a Privileged Category for the White Middle Class” Abstract HTML
Wanda J Blanchett
LD and the rise of Highly Gifted and Talented Programs: Examining similar rationales across decades and designations Abstract HTML
Kathryn Young
Sentence Fragments, Reflections, Learning Disability HTML
David Burstein
A Tribute to My Dyslexic Body, As I Travel in the Form of a Ghost Abstract HTML
Dené Granger
Privilege and the Avoidance of Stigma Abstract HTML
Chris Hale
Some Thoughts From a “Minority” Mother on Overrepresentation in Special Education Abstract HTML
Jasmine Lavine
The Social Distribution of Moxie: The Legacy of Christine Sleeter Abstract HTML
Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp
Confronting the Discourse of Deficiencies Abstract HTML
Curt Dudley-Marling, Patricia Paugh
Exploring the Construction/Deconstruction of Learning Disabilities in an Urban School: Revisiting Sleeter's Essay Abstract HTML
Jean Wong
“my name is jay”: On Teachers’ Roles in the Overrepresentation of Minorities in Special Education and What Teacher Education Can Do Abstract HTML
Susan Baglieri, Akintoye Moses
Building Counter-Theory about Disability HTML
Christine Sleeter



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