Publications

2022 onwards

Critical decolonial scholarship on communication and disability

  • Accent for Sale: Collusive Erasure of Racism and Ableism in the Marketplace of Pathologized Speech

    Yu, B., Rosa, M & Nair, V.K. (Forthcoming). Accent for Sale: Collusive Erasure of Racism and Ableism in the Marketplace of Pathologized Speech. In Henner, Robinson & Moriarty (Eds). Crip Speech in Crip Linguistics Reader. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press. 

  • Spaces of Reprieve: An Emancipatory Practice Centering Black and Brown Labelled Children

    Farah, W & Nair, V.K. (Forthcoming). Spaces of Reprieve: An Emancipatory Practice Centering Black and Brown Labelled Children. In Hackett, A et al. (Eds). Language, Place, and the Body in Early Childhood Literacies: Theory, Practice and Social Justice. London: Routledge. 

  • Decolonising Speech and Language Therapy. Critical Foundational Concepts for Research, Pedagogy and Praxis

    Nair, V.K., Brea, M.B., & Yu, B (accepted). Decolonising Speech and Language Therapy. Critical Foundational Concepts for Research, Pedagogy and Praxis. Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability.

  • Is Neurodiversity a Global Northern White Paradigm?

    Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024). Is neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?. Autism, 13623613241280835.

  • "I kept telling myself I have to learn; it is good for me and my children”: Motherhood, motivation and learning English amongst a group of Pakistani British women

    Rasool, Z. and Hackett, A. (2024) "I kept telling myself I have to learn; it is good for me and my children”: Motherhood, motivation and learning English amongst a group of Pakistani British women, TESOL journal.

  • A critical analysis of standardised testing in speech and language therapy. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools

    Nair, V. Farah, W. and Cushing, I. (2023) A critical analysis of standardised testing in speech and language therapy. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 54(3): 781-793.

  • Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: a commentary in response to Burda et al.

    Nair, V., Khamis, R., et al. (2023). Accent modification as a raciolinguistic ideology: a commentary in response to Burda et al.(2022). Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 1(1), 105-112.

  • Gaps in Framing and Naming: Commentary to “A Viewpoint on Accent Services”

    Yu, B., Nair, V. K., Brea, M. R., Soto-Boykin, X., Privette, C., Sun, L., Khamis, R., Sheen Chiou, H., Fabiano-Smith, L., Epstein, L., & Hyter, Y. D. (2022). Gaps in Framing and Naming: Commentary to “A Viewpoint on Accent Services”. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(4), 1913-1918.

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More than human literacies: place, body & materiality

  • Language, place and the body in childhood literacies; theory, practice and social justice

    Badwan, K. Churchill Dower, R.  Farah, W. Flewitt, R. Hackett, A. Holmes, R. MacRae, C. Nair, V. Shannon, D. (under contract) Language, place and the body in childhood literacies; theory, practice and social justice. Routledge, part of the Routledge Expanding Literacies in Education book series. 

  • The entanglement of language and place in early childhood: A review of the literature

    Shannon, D. and Hackett, A. (2024) The entanglement of language and place in early childhood: A review of the literature. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies.

  • Opaque reciprocity: or theorising Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ as a communication and language praxis in early childhood education

    Shannon, D. and Hackett, A. (2024) Opaque reciprocity: or theorising Glissant’s ‘right to opacity’ as a communication and language praxis in early childhood education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 45 (1): 118-130.

  • Beyond Transparency: more-than-human insights into the emergence of young children’s language

    Hackett, A. (2022) Beyond Transparency: more-than-human insights into the emergence of young children’s language. Literacy, 56 (3), 244,252.

  • Unruly Edges: Toddler Literacies of the Capitalocene

    Hackett, A. (2022) Unruly Edges: Toddler Literacies of the Capitalocene. Global Studies of Childhood, 12 (3), 263-276.