Disability and Discourse : Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

by Williams, Val

• ISBN13: 9780470682678
• ISBN10: 0470682671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-14
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 discussions that take place in self-advocacy and research contexts Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research

Author Biography

Val Williams is a Reader 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 disabled people, with particular emphasis on inclusive research and analysis of naturally occurring communication.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Starting Points	p. 1
Some Building Blocks for Analysis	p. 21
Individual Voices	p. 35
Challenging Disempowering Patterns of Talk	p. 37
Supporting Someone to be Competent	p. 51
Opening up Conversation	p. 65
Equalising Talk and Friendliness	p. 75
Doing Autonomy: 'It's entirely up to you'	p. 89
Public Encounters	p. 109
Collective Voice	p. 125
Self-Advocacy Talk: The personal to the political	p. 127
Supporting People to Speak up in Group Situations	p. 143
Being Interviewers with the Label of 'Intellectual Disability'	p. 159
Behind the Scenes in Inclusive Research: 'We are the artists of our lives'	p. 171
Talk about Labelling and Identity	p. 185
Reflections on Doing Analysis	p. 199
Reflections on Change	p. 217
Appendix Transcription Conventions	p. 237
References	p. 239
Index	p. 251
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