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Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities
Val Williams
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Description for Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities
Hardcover. 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 are treated in routine conversations. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; JFFG; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 249 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 594.
Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact.
Disability and Discourse applies and explains Conversation Analysis (CA), an established methodology for studying communication, to explore what happens during the everyday encounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the other people with whom they interact.
- Explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
- Introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners
- Adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people with intellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, while showing how such talk can be supported and developed
- Follows people into the meetings and ... Read more
- Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470682661
SKU
V9780470682661
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99-50
About Val Williams
Val Williams is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, UK – a leading centre for research into services for people with intellectual disabilities based on a social model of disability. Her work concerns the barriers faced by adults with learning disabilities, with particular emphasis on inclusive research and analysis of naturally-occurring communication.
Reviews for Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities
“This thought-provoking text is aimed at practitioners, those who engage in everyday conversation with individuals with intellectual disabilities and researchers who employ conversation analysis (CA). This book reminds us that these individuals and their support workers can benefit from engaging in more mindful and reflective practice with regard to everyday discourse.” (British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7 August 2013) ... Read more