Our story
The idea of Entangle Collective was born in 2022 with Vishnu and Warda collectively recognising the need to create a scholarly, liberatory and intersectional space for marginalised language practices and communication disability.
Later, when they both met Abi, all three were convinced of the importance of crossing over disciplinary silos and embracing and creating an interdisciplinary science that resists the deficit narratives and centres methods and ways of knowing that unravel all the amazing things children do with language.
Entangle Collective is both metaphorical and literal.
As a metaphor, it exists as a non-physical space between research from multiple disciplines and researchers from various backgrounds such as cognitive science, speech and language therapy, early childhood education, childhood studies, critical and decolonial studies and more than human research. Literally, it offers curiosity and a sense of wonderment in the materiality of children’s language practices including those who are racialised, neurodivergent and labelled as disabled.