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  11. Interpretive Methods In Disability Studies: Dyslexia Inflected Inquiry

Interpretive Methods in Disability Studies: Dyslexia Inflected Inquiry

Tanya Titchkosky1

  • 1University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Qualitative Inquiry : QI
|December 1, 2025

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Summary
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Disability studies offers a unique lens for social inquiry by examining how perceptions of disability, like dyslexia, reveal the social construction of interpretation. This approach highlights how understanding disability can illuminate the taken-for-granted processes of perception and meaning-making.

Area of Science:

  • Social Sciences
  • Disability Studies
  • Sociology of Interpretation

Background:

  • Disability studies provides a framework for analyzing how individuals interpret disability.
  • Impairment experiences can disrupt normative common-sense, offering insights into interpretive processes.
  • Perception of disability can create a 'pause' in everyday understanding, prompting reflection on interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore disability studies as an interpretive method for social inquiry.
  • To investigate how attention to dyslexia as an interpretive act influences social research.
  • To examine perception and disability-perception as critical junctures for understanding interpretation.

Main Methods:

  • Treating interpretive methods as inquiry into the social activity of interpretation.
Keywords:
common-sensedisability-perceptiondisruptiondyslexia

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  • Analyzing dyslexia as an integral part of interpretive activity.
  • Methodically engaging with appearances as interpretive encounters to study perception-as-interpretation.

    • Main Results:

    • Dyslexia serves as a 'primal scene' for understanding the social order of interpretation.
    • The perception of dyslexia reveals how normative expectations shape interpretations of language and literacy.
    • Dyslexia is examined as both a disruption and a sense-making device within literate culture.

    Conclusions:

    • Disability perception, particularly through experiences like dyslexia, offers a valuable method for social inquiry.
    • Examining dyslexia illuminates the taken-for-granted social construction of interpretation and normative values.
    • The study underscores the utility of disability studies in revealing the complex interplay between perception, interpretation, and social order.
    impairment experience
    interpretive methods
    normative flow