Handbook of communication and people with disabilities : research and application /

• Other Authors: Braithwaite, Dawn O., Thompson, Teresa L.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, �2000.
• Series: LEA's communication series.
• Subjects: People with disabilities > Means of communication > United States.; Sociology of disability > United States.; Communication in services for people with disabilities > United States.; Communication devices for people with disabilities > United States.; Handicap�es > Moyens de communication > �Etats-Unis.; Handicap > �Etats-Unis > Aspect sociologique.; Communication dans les services aux handicap�es > �Etats-Unis.; Appareils de communication pour handicap�es > �Etats-Unis.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > People with Disabilities.; Communication devices for people with disabilities.; Communication in services for people with disabilities.; People with disabilities > Means of communication.; Sociology of disability.; Behinderung; Kommunikation; Disabled Persons > United States.; Communication > United States.; Communication Aids for Disabled > United States.; United States.; Electronic books.

"This handbook represents the first comprehensive collection of research on communication and people with disabilities. Editors Dawn O. Braithwaite and Teresa L. Thompson have brought together original contributions focusing on the identity, social, and relationship adjustments faced by people...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A History of Communication and Disability Research: The Way We Were / Teresa L. Thompson
• I. Interpersonal and Relationship Issues. 1. Communication and the Management of Dialectical Tensions in the Personal Relationships of People With Disabilities / Dawn O. Braithwaite and Lynn M. Harter. 2. Society, Sexuality, and Disabled/Ablebodied Romantic Relationships / Sally A. Nemeth. 3. Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment: Identity Trans-Formation of Persons With Physical Disabilities / Thuy-Phuong Do and Patricia Geist. 4. Help Between Persons With and Without Disabilities From a Resource Theory Perspective / Kari P. Soule and Michael E. Roloff. 5. Opening Up Spaces for Difference Via a Feminist Phenomenological Approach to Disability / S. Marie Westhaver
• II. People with Disabilities in Organizational Settings. 6. Effective Communication to Enhance Special Education / Ida Malian and Ann Nevin.