Offers insights into how people with learning disabilities can have a voice in their own affairs, in policy-making, and in research
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“This thought-provoking text is aimed at practitioners, those who engage in everyday conversation with individuals with intellectual disabilities and researchers who employ conversation analysis (CA). This book reminds us that these individuals and their support workers can benefit from engaging in more mindful and reflective practice with regard to everyday discourse.” (British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7 August 2013)
Table of Contents
About the Author. Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1 Starting Points.
2 Some Building Blocks for Analysis.
Part 1 Individual Voices.
3 Challenging Disempowering Patterns of Talk.
4 Supporting Someone to be Competent.
5 Opening up Conversation.
6 Equalising Talk and Friendliness.
7 Doing Autonomy: 'It's entirely up to you'.
8 Public Encounters.
Part 2 Collective Voice.
9 Self-Advocacy Talk: The personal to the political.
10 Supporting People to Speak up in Group Situations.
11 Being Interviewers with the Label of 'Intellectual Disability'.
12 Behind the Scenes in Inclusive Research: 'We are the artists of our lives'.
13 Talk about Labelling and Identity.
14 Reflections on Doing Analysis.
15 Reflections on Change.
Appendix Transcription Conventions.
References.
Index.
