Dear colleagues,
We’re excited to announce that JWA issue 19.1 was published today! This special issue on Neurodivergence & Disability in Writing Assessment includes 10 manuscripts, including introductions to the issue, full-length articles, and “interludes,” which are shorter pieces grounded in the lived experience of disability. The issue contains:
- Editors’ Introduction: Focusing Attention on Disability and Neurodivergence, by Lizbett Tinoco, Stacy Wittstock, and Mathew Gomes
- Introduction, JWA Special Issue on Disability, Neurodivergence, and Writing Assessment, by Megan Von Bergen and Andrew Harnish
- Decoupling Documentation From Disability: A First Step Toward Centering Neurodivergent and Disabled Writers in Writing Assessment Practices, by Ellen Carillo
- The Paradox of Academic Trust and Accessibility, by Daniel Raines
- Metis as a Pedagogical Framework for Approaching Alternative Writing Assessment: Embracing Neurodiversity Through Adaptation, by Millie Hizer
- Beyond Retrofitting: Crip Engagement, Radical Flexibility, and Alternative Futures for Writing Assessment, by Kelsey Hawkins
- Cripping Institutional Assessment: A New Writing Program Administrator’s Examination of Institutional Practices for Placement, by Angela Mitchell
- Disability, Normativity, and the Agentive Promises of Placement, by Tara Wood
- Not That We Asked: Assessment, Placement, and Unprompted Disability Disclosure, by Amy Vidali
- Following the North Star: Movement Toward Universal Writing Assessment by Michael Neal
We hope you read and enjoy these articles. We’re grateful for the work that the special issue editors, reviewers, and editorial team members have dedicated to this issue. In particular, we’re grateful to our Associate Editors:
- Madeline Crozier for her excellent copyediting and leadership of our new team of copyeditors,
- Stephen McElroy for his work managing typesetting and the production side of things, and
- Chris Blankenship for his support in manuscript decision-making and his editorship of our review blog JWA RL.
We’re also thankful to our editorial team members, Assistant Editors for copyediting R.J. Lambert and Tara Wood and Assistant Editors with the JWA RL Alexis Teagarden and Olivia McMurray.
We continue to invite new manuscripts for consideration. Please journalofwritingassessment.
Matt Gomes, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Santa Clara University
Indexer and Social Media Coordinator, The Journal of Writing Assessment