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Critical Imagining of Accommodation Letters for Transformative Access in the First-Year Composition Classroom

by Taylor J. Wyatt | Xchanges 19.2, Fall 2025


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Contents

Introduction

Definitions and Naming Practices

Pedagogy and Accommodations Within the Undergraduate Classroom

Conclusion: Legal Frameworks of Access

Works Cited

About the Author

Works Cited

Beresford, Peter. “‘Mad’, Mad Studies, and Advancing Inclusive Resistance.” Disability & Society, vol. 35, no. 8, 2020, pp. 1337-1342. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2019.1692168.

Beresford, Peter. And Diana Rose. “Decolonising Global Mental Health: The Role of Mad Studies.” Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, vol. 10, no. 30, 2023, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2023.21.

Brewer, Elizabeth, Cynthia L. Selfe, and M. Remi Yergeau. “Creating a Culture of Access in Composition Studies.” Composition Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, 2014, pp. 151-151.

Dolmage, Jay Timothy. Academic Ableism, U of Michigan P, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9708722.

Masinter, Michael R. “Avoid the Word ‘Reasonable’ in Accommodations Policy.” Disability Compliance for Higher Education, vol. 13, no. 3, 2015, pp. 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/dhe.30106.

Melonçon, Lisa. “Introduction.” Rhetorical Accessibility: At the Intersection of Technical Communication and Disability Studies, edited by Lisa Melonçon, Baywood, 2013, pp. 1-14.

Neal, Michael. “Moving Toward Accessibility: Addressing Two Myths of Universal Access in Online Instruction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 4 April 2024, Spokane, WA. Conference Presentation.

Prendergast, Catherine. “On Rhetorics of Mental Disability.” Towards a Rhetoric of Everyday Life: New Directions in Research on Writing, Text, and Discourse, edited by Martin Nystrand and John Duffy, U of Wisconsin P, 2003, pp. 189-206.

Price, Margaret. Crip Space Time: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, Duke UP, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478059370. 

---. Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, U of Michigan P, 2011. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1612837.

Spinuzzi, Clay. “Accessibility Scans and Institutional Activity: An Activity Theory Analysis.” College English, vol. 70, no. 2, 2007, pp. 189-201.

Wood, Tara, Jay Dolmage, Margaret Price, and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. “Where Are We: Disability and Accessibility: Moving Beyond Disability 2.0 in Composition Studies.” Composition Studies, vol 42, no. 2, 2014, pp 147-150.

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Posted by chanakya_das on Dec 05, 2025 in Issue 19.2

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