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

Author:
WILLIAMS Val
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication year:
2011
Pagination:
257p.
Place of publication:
Chichester

This book 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. It explores conversations and encounters from the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, and introduces the established methodology of Conversation Analysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range of students, researchers and practitioners. The book 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, and follows people into the meetings and discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts. It then offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research.

Subject terms:
learning disabilities, self-advocacy, communication skills, empowerment;
ISBN print:
978 0 470 68266 1

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