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 disabilitiesIntroduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitionersAdopts 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 developedFollows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contextsOffers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research
- ISBN10 6613373907
- ISBN13 9786613373908
- Publish Date 14 January 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English