Disability and Discourse

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Disability and Discourse applies and explains ConversationAnalysis (CA), an established methodology for studyingcommunication, to explore what happens during the everydayencounters of people with intellectual disabilities and the otherpeople with whom they interact. * Explores conversations and encounters from the lives of peoplewith intellectual disabilities * Introduces the established methodology of ConversationAnalysis, making it accessible and useful to a wide range ofstudents, researchers and practitioners * Adopts a discursive approach which looks at how people withintellectual disabilities use talk in real-life situations, whileshowing how such talk can be supported and developed * Follows people into the meetings and discussions that takeplace in self-advocacy and research contexts * Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities canhave a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and inresearch

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Val Williams

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"This thought-provoking text is aimed at practitioners,those who engage in everyday conversation with individuals withintellectual disabilities and researchers who employ conversationanalysis (CA). This book reminds us that these individualsand their support workers can benefit from engaging in more mindfuland reflective practice with regard to everydaydiscourse." (British Journal of LearningDisabilities, 7 August 2013) 'An exciting and innovatory book, rooted in an informedawareness and concern for the interests and rights of the subjectsof study, through a focused analysis of how conversation andparticipation is realised and maintained in everyday contexts.Carefully conceived, and fundamentally important.' --Len Barton, Emeritus Professor of InclusiveEducation, University of London, UK 'The first book-length account of working with people withintellectual disabilities, at the fine grain of interactionaldetail. The distinguishing feature is the reliance not onsecond-hand data or observational anecdote, but on rigorousanalysis of what actually happens. This ought to have immediateappeal to practitioners.' --Charles Antaki, Professor of Language andSocial Psychology, Loughborough University, U
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