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The Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability (JCSCD) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Adelphi University Libraries. The journal is designed to provide a forum for research, theory, practice, policy, curriculum, and community-based engagement using critical science related to people and groups who are marginalized and/or pathologized for their languaging and ways of communicating. It is a vehicle for connecting scholars, educators, and clinicians interested in promoting transformative research, policy, and practice. The overall aims of the journal are to advocate for linguistic justice, equity, and access for diverse communicators. The editors of the  journal actively seek global perspectives and welcome methods of inquiry that challenge positivist and colonial forms of knowledge, and papers that challenge dominant discourses and ideologies. 

Author Guidelines

The Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability accepts the following types of manuscripts:

Original research: Presenting original work where neither the current manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere or is being considered for publication in another journal or book. The editors of this journal encourage publications of case studies and field reports accounting for social, historical, political, economic, and/or psychological contexts as part of this category.

Overview articles: Presenting an original summary and review of the study of a specific topic from a critical perspective and facilitating depth and breadth of a specific topic of interest from historical, social, and political methodological perspectives. The editors encourage Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) studies that are inclusive of qualitative research and not only quantitative research as part of this category.

Book reviews: Presenting a summary and a critical review of a published book.

Tutorials: Offers instruction and explanatory information on using a critical lens to transform curriculum, policy, and/or practice. 

Reflection/Essays: Presenting individual reflective and reflexive reports to interrogate practices and beliefs embedded in curriculum, policy, and/or practice.

See the Information for Authors page for complete submission guidelines.

Note: The editors are open to considering manuscripts that may not be listed above, and encourage you to contact the editorial board members with any questions about manuscripts that are not included in the list.

No matter the type of manuscript presented, the editors are interested in manuscripts that are outside of and/or challenge the positivist epistemological inquiry of communication and disability. Editors are interested in manuscripts that offer depth of understanding at the intersection among communication, communication disability and social, economic, historical, political, ecological and/or psychological contexts and power relationships providing a new epistemic critical inter-professionally based inquiry in relation to communication and society

We reserve the right to reject work that we deem to not follow high ethical standards, even if formal IRB or equivalent ethics committee(s) was obtained.

Submission Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The manuscript has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • To ensure the integrity of the peer-review, you must anonymize your document properties (file info) as well as the text of your document. Avoid or minimize self citations (you can reintroduce them after the peer review). When you cannot avoid a self citation, refer to your work in the third person. Also remove any acknowledgments to people or organizations or references to funding sources until after the peer review.
    • In addition, you must remove author info from the file properties of your Word document.**
      Instructions:
      • Microsoft Office: In File Properties, remove author identification.  
      • Word for Windows/ Word 365:  Go to File > Info > Check for Issue (menu to the left of "Inspect Document").
      • Click "Inspect Document," make sure to check the box next to "Document properties and Personal Information," and then click "Inspect" at th bottom of the dialogue box. If there is a red exclamation mark next to "Document Properties and Personal Information" it will give you the option to "Remove All," which you should click.
      • Word for MacOS: go to Tools > Protect Document > Remove personal information for this file on save > click OK, and then save the file. Before submitting your file, please re-open the document and check to make sure all personal information has been removed.
  • The submission file is a MS Word (.docx or .doc) document.
  • A cover page has been prepared as a separate file which lists information for all authors (name, title, affiliation, email, ORCID iD) in order of authorship. The cover page should also include positionality statements, IRB approval, a conflict of interest disclosure, and a funding statement. An Acknowledgements section may be added here as well. Please upload the cover page as a supplementary file.
  • All authors have prepared individual positionality statements (up to 100 words each) or composed a shared statement (up to 400 words) and added them to the cover page.
  • The text is double-spaced, uses 11-point Helvetica font, employs italics rather than underlining (except with URL addresses), and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points rather than at the end.
  • The manuscript does not exceed 40 double-spaced pages (including figures, tables, references and abstract).
  • The language of the manuscript is readable and accessible to all constituents involved in the presented scholarly query.
  • To comply with the terms of the publisher's Crossref membership, Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) must be included with references when they are available, and URLs must be included for all references.
  • All figures, charts, graphs, and images must include alt text.

Copyright Notice

This Author Agreement for the Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability (JCSCD) ("Agreement") is entered into by and between The Ohio State University, on behalf of its University Libraries ("Publisher"), and the author ("Author").

For good and valuable consideration, Publisher and Author agree as follows:

  1. Author hereby grants to Publisher the right to publish, reproduce, distribute, translate, transmit, and display his/her submitted work and an abstract thereof ("Work") in the Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability in whole or in part and in all formats and all media, as well as to ensure accessibility of works under University policy and current web accessibility standards. Author also hereby grants to Publisher the right for Publisher to enter into agreements with third parties that grant such third parties any or all of the rights that Author has granted to Publisher herein. The aforementioned rights may include the rights necessary to index and abstract the Work. The Author agrees that any subsequent publication of the Work will credit the Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disabilitys as the site of first publication and provide a link to the Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability. This Agreement is subject to the terms and expectations outlined on Publisher's website ( http://go.osu.edu/publishing-services ).
  2. Author represents and warrants that: (1) they are the creator and rights holder of the Work; (2) Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein will not infringe or violate any copyright or any other right of a third party; (3) if the Work contains any third party content, they have obtained the unrestricted permission of the copyright owner or that use of third party material is allowed because the material is in the public domain or an appropriate fair use analysis has been performed and there is a reasonable belief that use is permitted; and (4) the Work contains nothing libelous or otherwise unlawful. Author hereby agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Publisher and its trustees, officers, employees, agents, and subgrantees from all claims related to Publisher's exercise of the rights granted to Publisher herein or related to the subject matter covered in Author's representations and warranties.

The Journal of Critical Study of Communication & Disability is published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, to allow for certain types of reuse without permission. By submitting this agreement, the Author agrees to apply a CC BY-SA 4.0 license to the Work upon publication.

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