Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities : Research and Application

by Braithwaite, Dawn O.; Thompson, (Editor-in-Chief) Teresa L.

• ISBN13: 9780805830590
• ISBN10: 0805830596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

A comprehensive volume of research & applications in communication & disability study, exploring how disability is socially constructed, conceptualized, and enacted through communicative processes. For scholars and students of communication & disabilitie

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Contributors	xv
Introduction: A History of Communication and Disability Research: The Way We Were	1	(16)
Teresa L. Thompson
I INTERPERSONAL AND RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
Communication and the Management of Dialectical Tensions in the Personal Relationships of People With Disabilities	17	(20)
Dawn O. Braithwaite
Lynn M. Harter
Society, Sexuality, and Disabled/Ablebodied Romantic Relationships	37	(12)
Sally A. Nemeth
Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment: Identity Trans-Formation of Persons With Physical Disabilities	49	(18)
Thuy-Phuong Do
Patricia Geist
Help Between Persons With and Without Disabilities From a Resource Theory Perspective	67	(18)
Kari P. Soule
Michael E. Roloff
Opening Up Spaces for Difference Via a Feminist Phenomenological Approach to Disability	85	(18)
S. Marie Westhaver
II PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS
Effective Communication to Enhance Special Education	103	(22)
Ida Malian
Ann Nevin
Communication and Students With Disabilities on College Campuses	125	(16)
David W. Worley
What Is Reasonable? Workplace Communication and People Who Are Disabled	141	(18)
Audra L. Colvert
John W. Smith
Communication Strategies in Employment Interviews for Applicants With Disabilities	159	(18)
Kelly P. Herold
Disability and Culture: Effects on Multicultural Relations in Modern Organizations	177	(16)
Gary L. Kreps
III DISABILITY AND CULTURE
Interability Communication: Theoretical Perspectives	193	(30)
Susan A. Fox
Howard Giles
Mark P. Orbe
Richard Y. Bourhis
Negotiating Personal Identities Among People With and Without Identified Disabilities: The Role of Identity Management	223	(16)
Gerianne Merrigan
Intercultural Views of People With Disabilities in Asia and Africa	239	(18)
Miho Iwakuma
Jon F. Nussbaum
Deaf Activists in the Rhetorical Transformation of the Construct of Disability	257	(16)
Kara Shultz
IV MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIES
If They Limp, They Lead? News Representations and the Hierarchy of Disability Images	273	(16)
Beth Haller
Film Images of People With Disabilities	289	(18)
Kim Wolfson
Martin F. Norden
Invisible No More: Advertising and People With Disabilities	307	(12)
Olan Farnall
The Uses and Abuses of Computer-Mediated Communication for People With Disabilities	319	(20)
Susan Anne Fox
V COMMUNICATION ISSUES AS THEY IMPACT SPECIFIC TYPES OF DISABILITIES
Reducing Uncertainty Through Communication During Adjustment to Disability: Living With Spinal Cord Injury	339	(14)
Roxanne Parrott
Tricia Stuart
Adrian Bennett Cairns
When the Deaf and the Hearing Interact: Communication Features, Relationships, and Disability Issues	353	(16)
Anne McIntosh
Sighting Sound/Sounding Sight: The ``Violence'' of Deaf-Hearing Communication	369	(20)
Heidi M. Rose
Andrew R. Smith
Communication and the Blind or Visually Impaired	389	(16)
John W. Smith
Krishna P. Kandath
Invisible Disability	405	(18)
Cynthia K. Matthews
Nancy Grant Harrington
Communicating With Persons Who Stutter: Perceptions and Strategies	423	(16)
Bryan B. Whaley
Mindi Ann Golden
Children and Adults Who Experience Difficulty With Speech	439	(12)
Mary Ann Romski
Rose A. Sevcik
Overcoming Loss of Voice	451	(16)
Al Weitzel
Interpersonal Roulette and HIV/AIDS as Disability: Stigma and Social Support in Tension	467	(18)
Rebecca J. Cline
Nelya J. McKenzie
The Margins of Communication: Coping With Adult Dementia	485	(22)
Joachim Knuf
VI SETTING A FUTURE AGENDA FOR COMMUNICATION AND DISABILITY RESEARCH
Communication and Disability Research: A Productive Past and a Bright Future	507	(10)
Dawn O. Braithwaite
Teresa L. Thompson
Author Index	517	(18)
Subject Index	535