A Personal, Professional, and Bibliographic Essay on Living in a Disabled Family

Abstract

In the hybrid article, the authors reflect on the roots, located in their personal and professional lives, of their co-edited 2001 collection, Embodied Rhetorics: Disability in Language and Culture, the first book to bring together disability studies and writing and rhetoric studies. They describe raising their disabled, autistic son Sam and the lessons they have learned about living as a disabled family. They point readers to the subsequent work made by original contributors to Embodied Rhetorics and to important newer scholarship that has grown at the intersection of rhetoric and disability.