Discursive Psychology and Disability

Jessica Nina Lester is Associate Professor of Inquiry Methodology in the School of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dr Lester has published numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters focused on discourse and conversation analysis, disability studies, and more general concerns related to qualitative research.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Discursive Psychology and Disability: Working at the Intersection of Discursive Psychology and Disability. - Chapter 2. Problematizing the Binary: A Poststructural Understanding of Dis/ability in Schools. - Chapter 3. Exploring the rhetoric of ‘burden’: The discursive positioning of the impact of psychiatric disability in child mental health assessments. - Chapter 4. Negotiating (dis)ability in the context of chronic pain rehabilitation: Challenges for patients and practitioners. - Chapter 5. The Discursive Construction of Severe Dis/Ability in One School in the Southeastern United States. - Chapter 6. It’s about time: Constructing dyslexia in higher education. - Chapter 7. Formulating (Dis)ability: Discursive Construction of Cochlear Implant Satisfaction. - Chapter 8. Exploring the Intersections and Connections: Discursive Psychology and Disability Studies. - Chapter 9. Using Discursive Psychology to Understand Everyday Interactions in Special Education and Mental Health Care Settings. - Chapter 10. Engaging Disability Studies and Discursive Psychology: Materialisms and Ideologies of Ableism