Publisher's Synopsis
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
