{"product_id":"disability-augmentative-communication-and-the-american-dream-9781498520874","title":"Disability Augmentative Communication and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDisability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his arms and an inability to speak without an assistive communication device. It is a story about finding one's voice, about defying low expectations, about fulfilling one's dreams, and about making a difference in the world. Sociologist C. Wright Mills famously called for a sociological imagination that grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society and the ways in which personal troubles are related to public issues. Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream heeds this call through a qualitative mixedmethods study that situates Feucht's life in broader social context, understanding disability not just as an individual experience but also as a social phenomenon. In the tradition of disability studi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a collaborative work by University of Wisconsin-Whitewater sociologists Berger and Flad with education professor Feucht, who as a man living with cerebral palsy recounts his experiences in schooling, his achievement of a master's degree in special education, and his development of a summer camp program for adolescents using augmentative communication devices. The first chapter reviews critical disability studies research in theory and method. It is very concise and perhaps one of the most comprehensible treatments of the contradictions and promises of that field and emancipatory-participatory methods. . . .[A]n important contribution to disability studies and exemplary in its collaborative methodology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic levels\/libraries. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eRonald J. Berger, Jon A. Feucht, and Jennifer Flad follow through on C. Wright Mills’s promise of the sociological imagination. They make a significant contribution to the field of disability studies by illuminating the socio-historical context of Jon’s everyday life as they articulate his experience with cerebral palsy. -- Jeremy L. Brunson, Gallaudet University\u003cbr\u003eThis instructive book provides a fine-grained glimpse into the life of a man with cerebral palsy—his flaws and self-doubts, his real problems and real achievements. Grounded in a mixed qualitative methods study of one young man as an agent of change, the book is a concrete example of research that engages all three co-authors in a process inquiry, reflection, and learning. This book realizes its ambitious goal to help readers understand disability not just as an individual experience but also a social phenomenon in which we all participate. -- Laura Lorenz, Brandeis University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction Chapter 1: Disability and the Individual in Society Part I: The Life History Chapter 2: Growing Up with Cerebral Palsy Chapter 3: Finding a Voice Chapter 4: Days of Gloom, Days of Joy Part II: Participant Observation Chapter 5: Authentic Voices of America: A Relational Ethnography Chapter 6: Travels with Jon and Sarah: A Journey Through Space and Time Conclusion Chapter 7: Disability, Multiculturalism, and the American Dream About the Authors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040673268055,"sku":"9781498520874","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498520874.jpg?v=1750947470","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disability-augmentative-communication-and-the-american-dream-9781498520874","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}