Our mission

To unsettle, question and decenter deficit-based, disorder-focused, mile-stone-oriented and catch-up narratives rooted in developmental psychology and cognitivist paradigms that render variability in languaging as pathological including of those children who are at the intersections of racialisation and communication disability.

To commit to a serious study of language and communication disability based on critical and decolonial frameworks and to understand how intersectional and material factors are enmeshed within the everyday languaging practices of racialised children and families and/or those labelled with “disordered or non-normative” language.

To forge interdisciplinary alliances with scholars, practitioners, activists,  from the fields of more than human research, critical applied linguistics and literacy, speech and language therapy, critical disability studies, crip linguistics, neurodiversity and arts-based research.

To co-partner with children and families and build new evidence rooted in epistemic, theoretical and methodological pluralism that captures the creative and aesthetic diversity in languaging and their relationship with the more than human world.