Disability and discourse : analyzing inclusive conversation with people with intellectual disabilities

For people with learning disabilities, effective communication presents a special set of challenges. By analyzing a series of real-life conversations and encounters between people with learning disabilities and those who work with them, this book provides illuminating insight into the ways people ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Val (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley-Blackwell , c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Starting points
  • 2. Some building blocks for analysis
  • 3. Challenging disempowering patterns of talk
  • 4. Supporting someone to be competent
  • 5. Opening up conversation
  • 6. Equalising talk and friendliness
  • 7. Doing autonomy : 'It's entirely up to you'
  • 8. Public encounters
  • 9. Self-advocacy talk : the personal to the political
  • 10. Supporting people to speak up in group situations
  • 11. Being interviewers with the label of 'intellectual disability'
  • 12. Behind the scenes in inclusive research : 'We are the artists of our lives'
  • 13. Talk about labelling and identity
  • 14. Reflections on doing analysis
  • 15. Reflections on change