Chapter 2 discusses the construction of disability in US schooling contexts. It maps DP principles onto Disability Studies in Education (DSE) tenets, allowing researchers to investigate how school interactions/structures continue to "construct some students as disabled".

Response to Reardon & Ivey (Chapter 2: Schools)

Chapter 3 discusses parental narratives regarding children with mental health distress. DP analyzes how parents produce narratives of "burden", revealing the rhetorical labor required of families to secure support within medicalized systems.

Response to O’Reilly (Chapter 3: Mental Health)

Chapter 5 discusses students labeled with significant intellectual/developmental disabilities (SIDD). DP applications challenge positivist/limited conceptions of intelligence uncovering "disability as an ideology" through the micro-analysis of teacher/student interactions.

Response to D’Ardenne et al. (Chapter 5: Complex Support Needs)

- Reardon & Ivey (Chapter 2: Schools)
- O’Reilly (Chapter 3: Mental Health)
- D’Ardenne et al. (Chapter 5: Complex Support Needs)

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In Chapter 8, Emily A. Nusbaum responds to three preceding chapters to demonstrate the methodological compatibility between discursive psychology (DP) and disability studies (DS). She argues that DP serves as a valuable framework for DS because it rejects static foundations of truth and deficit-based models in favor of viewing disability as constructed through discourse,. The author highlights how the previous chapters utilize DP to reveal how interactions regarding school structures, mental health "burdens," and students with complex support needs actively construct disability. Ultimately, Nusbaum posits that DP’s focus on active meaning-making aligns with theoretical advancements in DS, such as cripistemologies and cultural models, by uncovering disability as an ideology rather than a fixed fact.

Chapter 8: Intersections of Discursive Psychology and Disability Studies

Lester, J. N. (Ed.). (2021). Discursive Psychology and Disability. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Reference For: Discursive Psychology and Disability

- The Basis of Disability
- The Nature of Disability

Why Discursive Psychology Fits Disability Studies

- Core Analytic Questions 
- Active Meaning-Making

The Framework For Discursive Psychology in Disability Studies

- Cultural Models (Snyder & Mitchell)
- Realist Disability Theory (Siebers)
- Cripistemologies (Johnson & McRuer)
- Crip Horizons (Kolářová)

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