Authoring Autism

Yergeau, Melanie

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“…Furthermore, by emphasizing a behavioural approach, which seeks to augment and limit autistic behaviour, the province places responsibility on caregivers and autistic individuals to change, rather than promoting an accepting and inclusive society (Gibson & Douglas, 2018). A key concern is that ABA, and the idea that individual autistic traits must be restricted, reduces the need for society to accommodate disabled people, because it promotes the impression that recovery from autism is something to be sought and obtained (Yergeau, 2017).…”

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Representations of Autism in Ontario Newsroom: A Critical Content Analysis of Online Government Press Releases, Media Advisories, and Bulletins

Rensburg

2022

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In Ontario, Canada, autism has become widely politicized. In the last 20 years, instances of personal and organizational advocacy developed into wider-scale policy and programs. Government press releases indicate Ontario’s developing response to autism as a social policy issue, while reflecting societal perceptions and priorities surrounding autism. Informed by Critical Disability Studies and Critical Autism Studies, this article uses a content analysis to explore the manifest and latent priorities of Ontario’s provincial government displayed in press releases between 2001-2019 accessed through the Ontario Newsroom, an online repository of press releases and media advisories that features different initiatives published by the government of Ontario. Press releases were selected based on the search term “autism” and analyzed in two steps. First, this article presents the most frequently used words in press release headlines. Second, key themes within press releases are explored. Press releases emphasize the stories of non-autistic people, altruists, positivists, treatment-seekers, autistic children, and normative families. What is left out is a social representation of autism. Prominent themes display ableist perceptions of autism, reproducing power imbalances and inequity based on disability and family status. These findings reveal government objectives and priorities, reflecting broader societal perceptions of autism.

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Representations of Autism in Ontario Newsroom: A Critical Content Analysis of Online Government Press Releases, Media Advisories, and Bulletins

Rensburg

2022

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“…The last 15 years have generated a vast and compelling body of critical scholarship exploring the cultural meanings of autism and autistic identity through multiple, intersecting, interdisciplinary lenses. These include feminism, cultural studies, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, rhetoric, queer studies, 5 and others (e.g., Eyal, 2010;Jack, 2014;McGuire, 2016;Murray, 2012;Nadesan, 2005;Osteen, 2010;Rodas, 2018;Runswick-Cole et al, 2016;Silberman, 2015;Silverman, 2013;Yergeau, 2017). Most of these critical social and cultural analyses concur with the indisputable claim that autism is now big business-that much has been obvious for the past several decades.…”

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Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex

Broderick

Roscigno

2021

J. Disabil. Stud. Educ.

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We contend that, within capitalism, the Autism Industrial Complex (aic) produces both autism as commodity and the normative cultural logic of intervention in relation to it. Comprised of ideological/rhetorical as well as material/economic infrastructure, we argue that the aic is not the myriad businesses and industries that capitalize and profit from it; rather, these constitute its epiphenomenal features. In the production of autism as commodity, the aic also simultaneously produces that commodity’s market, its consumers, and its own monopoly control of that market through production for consumption of need for, consent to, and legitimacy of interventionist logics. Within this apparatus, almost anyone can capitalize on and profit from autism. And within the aic, autistic people—their very bodies—function as the raw materials from which this industrial complex is built, even as autistic people—their very identities and selves—also become unwitting, and often unwilling, products of the aic.

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“…These sanctioned labels located students as "nonreaders" or "decoders-only." Though these labels provide context, I have purposefully omitted students' reading or functioning levels to reject deficit discourses that reduce the intricacies of students' literate lives into categorical assumptions (Yergeau, 2018).…”

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Reimagining Isolated Literacy Classrooms as Interdependent Networks: Tracing Rituals, Repetitions, and Technologies

Kleekamp

2021

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice

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Recent literacy scholarship increasingly seeks to center and value the literacies of systematically marginalized youth in response to deficit-oriented narratives that locate oppressed communities as incompetent or delayed. Often, this reframing leans on a contextualization of literacies as culturally, historically, and socially situated acts that people do. Located alongside recent literacy research combatting racism, homophobia, transphobia, linguicism, xenophobia, and the invisibilizing of indigenous peoples, this piece reimagines the active and rich literacies produced in an isolated (i.e., self-contained) special education literacy classroom. While theoretically utilizing situated literacies, this article also directly responds to critiques of situated literacies as too human-centric, an especially relevant criticism for classrooms with students who have complex support needs. Actor-network theory, as a theoretical and methodological lens, provides entry into the analysis of human and nonhuman actors collectively producing intricate literacy events during a curricular exploration of inclusive picturebooks (i.e., texts featuring main characters with lived dis/ability experiences). Findings presented trace two literacy events animated by actors such as students, technologies, rituals, and repetitions. Implications for this research argue for future theoretical and pedagogical framings of literacies as inherently interdependent productions, not just in isolated special education classrooms but all literacy classrooms. This shift moves away from illusive discourses of independence and autonomy and toward understandings of all literacies as interdependently shaped by endless network actors.

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Authoring Autism

Cited by 118 publications

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Representations of Autism in Ontario Newsroom: A Critical Content Analysis of Online Government Press Releases, Media Advisories, and Bulletins

Representations of Autism in Ontario Newsroom: A Critical Content Analysis of Online Government Press Releases, Media Advisories, and Bulletins

Autism, Inc.: The Autism Industrial Complex

Reimagining Isolated Literacy Classrooms as Interdependent Networks: Tracing Rituals, Repetitions, and Technologies

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