“What if we separated the idea of “voice” from audiology? What if we understood the metaphor of “voice” to refer not merely to the mouth, lungs and throat, but to a variety of bodily sites? Users of ASL could, after all, be said to speak with their hands. What if we separated “voice” from verbality, and opened it to a wider interpretation of meaning and impulses? Perhaps a more flexible understanding of “voice “could help us begin to break down the currently rigid, and destructive, definitions of literacy that operate at present in the academy.” (Price, Margaret Unpublished Seminar Paper on Voice)
