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

Description

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 Content: Chapter 1 Starting Points (pages 1–19): Chapter 2 Some Building Blocks for Analysis (pages 21–34): Chapter 3 Challenging Disempowering Patterns of Talk (pages 37–50): Chapter 4 Supporting Someone to be Competent (pages 51–63): Chapter 5 Opening up Conversation (pages 65–74): Chapter 6 Equalising Talk and Friendliness (pages 75–88): Chapter 7 Doing Autonomy: ‘It's entirely up to you’ (pages 89–107): Chapter 8 Public Encounters (pages 109–124): Chapter 9 Self?Advocacy Talk: The personal to the political (pages 127–142): Chapter 10 Supporting People to Speak up in Group Situations (pages 143–157): Chapter 11 Being Interviewers with the Label of ‘Intellectual Disability’ (pages 159–170): Chapter 12 Behind the Scenes in Inclusive Research: ‘We are the artists of our lives’ (pages 171–184): Chapter 13 Talk about Labelling and Identity (pages 185–198): Chapter 14 Reflections on Doing Analysis (pages 199–215): Chapter 15 Reflections on Change (pages 217–235):