Linguistic Border-Crossing, Survival, and Advocacy: Narrative Practices of Disabled Latinx Bilingual Children and Their Caregivers

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Agency and Ideologies

Abstract

This study documents the storytelling practices of Latinx immigrant mothers with their children. Using photovoice in Spanish-language virtual focus groups, caregivers shared multimedia and narratives illustrating storytelling practices in their homes with their children with communication disabilities. Grounded in Chicana feminist epistemologies and asset-based frameworks, findings challenge deficit-based views of disability and bilingualism. Preliminary analyses reveal the following themes: 1) linguistic border-crossing, 2) survival and protection, and 3) advocacy. This research responds to the conference theme “Understanding Histories and Imagining Futures” by honoring the historical knowledge embedded in home storytelling while envisioning more equitable educational futures to inform culturally sustaining curriculum, assessment, and intervention, thereby constructing a new vision for education research centered on the voices of multiply marginalized families.

Author

• Alejandro Granados Vargas, University of California - Irvine