Contents
Book Series Editors' Forward
Foreword: Warda Farah
SECTION I: Introduction
1 Introduction
KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, ABIGAIL HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION II: Language as bodily and material
2a Language as bodily and material
ROSIE FLEWITT, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE
2b Making time for unruliness in the special education classroom: Resisting the narrowing of neurotypicality in England
YVONNE WILLIAMS and DAVID BEN SHANNON
2c Letting things become what they want to become: Uncertainty, improvisation, and resisting the tyranny of talk
CHARLOTTE ARCULUS
2d Facilitating expressive language through body movements: Clinical implications
MAYA LEELA
2e Speech Bubbles: How play, joy, and storytelling open up expansive possibilities for language
ADAM POWER-ANNAND with ABIGAIL HACKETT
2f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language as bodily and material
CHARLOTTE ARCULUS, RACHEL HOLMES, MAYA LEELA, CHRISTINA MACRAE, ADAM POWER-ANNAND, DAVID BEN SHANNON, YVONNE WILLIAMS
SECTION III: Place and language
3a Place and Language
WARDA FARAH, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
3b Researching language and place: What is the evidence base?
ABIGAIL HACKETT and DAVID BEN SHANNON
3c Rituals, vocalisations and creating comfortable spaces: A spatialised view of young children's language in museums
ABI HACKETT, CHRISTINA MACRAE, DAVID BEN SHANNON, ROBERT CHESTER, LUCY COOKE, ESTHER HALLBERG, GEORGINA SIMMONS, LAURA SMITH-HIGGINS, SALLY TOON
3d Spaces of Reprieve: An emancipatory practice centring Black and Brown children labelled with communication difficulties
WARDA FARAH and VISHNU NAIR
3e The entanglement between signed language, embodiment, and place
LEALA HOLCOMB
3f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on place and language
WARDA FARAH, ABI HACKETT, LEALA HOLCOMB, VISHNU KK NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION IV: Language beyond meaning
4a Language beyond meaning
KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT
4b Beyond 'deficit' or 'lack': Enjoying the richness of language and meaning-making in a complex early childhood classroom
WILLOW SPENCER, JESS CLARKE, DAVID BEN SHANNON
4c How might body-listening open up space for body-languaging?
RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER
4d Who chooses my words?
ANDREA LEE
4e Listening Body
LOUISE KLARNETT
4f Coming together: Roundtable discussion on language beyond meaning
RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ABIGAIL HACKETT, ANDREA LEE, DAVID BEN SHANNON
SECTION V: Rights of the Talker
5. The Rights of the Talker. A manifesto for chattering, whispering, translanguaging, not-speaking, non-verbalising, screeching, signing, clicking, twirling, stimming, assistive technology-ing, jumping, shouting, grasping, gasping, dancing, drawing, repeating, refusing, gesturing, glancing, smirking, eye-rolling, whistling......
ABIGAIL HACKETT, KHAWLA BADWAN, RUTH CHURCHILL DOWER, ESTER EHIYAZARYAN-WHITE, WARDA FARAH, ROSIE FLEWITT, KAREN GRAINGER, RACHEL HOLMES, CHRISTINA MACRAE, VISHNU NAIR, DAVID BEN SHANNON
