Disability Issues Caucus
Interest Group Award
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Sarah Parsloe and Avery Holton, "#Boycottautismspeaks: Communicating a Counternarrative through Cyberactivism" |
| 2015 | Erin McAloon, “Privacy Boundaries and Visible Disabilites” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Brandon Fletcher, "Parrhesia's Parrhesia: Tropological Labor of the Dys-/Disarticulate" |
| 2015 | Isaac Remier and Patrick Seick, “The Intersection of Disability: A Co-constructed Autoethnography of Friendship” |
Jim Ferris Award for Outstanding Achievement in Disability Communication
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Simi Linton |
| 2015 | Dawn Braithwaite and Theresa Thompson |