Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities: Research and Application

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Contributors xv
• Introduction - A History of Communication and Disability Research: The Way We Were 1
• References 12
• I - Interpersonal and Relationship Issues 15
• 1 - Communication and the Management of Dialectical Tensions in the Personal Relationships of People With Disabilities 17
• References 33
• 2 - Society, Sexuality, and Disabled/Ablebodied Romantic Relationships 37
• References 46
• 3 - Embodiment and Dis-Embodiment: identity Trans-Formation of Persons With Physical Disabilities 49
• References 63
• 4 - Help Between Persons With and Without Disabilities From a Resource Theory Perspective 67
• References 81
• 5 - Opening Up Spaces for Difference Via a Feminist Phenomenological Approach to Disability 85
• References 99
• II - People With Disabilities in Organizational Settings 101
• 6 - Effective Communication to Enhance Special Education 103
• References 121
• 7 - Communication and Students With Disabilities on College Campuses 125
• References 137
• 8 - What Is Reasonable? Workplace Communication and People Who Are Disabled 141
• References 156
• 9 - Communication Strategies in Employment Interviews for Applicants With Disabilities 159
• References 173
• 10 - Disability and Culture: Effects on Multicultural Relations in Modern Organizations 177
• References 188
• III - Disability and Culture 191
• 11 - Interability Communication: Theoretical Perspectives 193
• References 219
• 12 - Negotiating Personal Identities Among People With and Without Identified Disabilities: The Role of Identity Management 223
• References 237
• ENDNOTES 238
• 13 - Intercultural Views of People With Disabilities in Asia and Africa 239
• References 253
• ENDNOTES 255
• 14 - Deaf Activists in the Rhetorical Transformation of the Construct of Disability 257
• References 268
• ENDNOTES 270
• IV - Media and Technologies 271
• 15 - If They Limp, They Lead? News Representations and the Hierarchy of Disability Images 273
• References 286
• 16 - Film Images of People With Disabilities 289
• References 302
• 17 - Invisible No More: Advertising and People With Disabilities 307
• References 318
• 18 - The Uses and Abuses of Computer-Mediated Communication for People With Disabilities 319
• References 333
• V - Communication Issues as They Impact Specific Types of Disabilities 337
• 19 - Reducing Uncertainty Through Communication During Adjustment to Disability: Living With Spinal Cord Injury 339
• References 350
• ENDNOTE 352
• 20 - When the Deaf and the Hearing Interact: Communication Features, Relationships, and Disability Issues 353
• References 366
• ENDNOTES 368
• 21 - Sighting Sound/Sounding Sight: The "Violence" of Deaf-Hearing Communication 369
• References 385
• ENDNOTES 387
• 22 - Communication and the Blind or Visually impaired 389
• References 401
• ENDNOTES 403
• 23 - Invisible Disability 405
• References 419
• 24 - Communicating With Persons Who Stutter: Perceptions and Strategies 423
• References 434
• ENDNOTES 438
• 25 - Children and Adults Who Experience Difficulty With Speech 439
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 448
• References 448
• 26 - Overcoming Loss of Voice 451
• References 464
• ENDNOTES 466
• 27 - Interpersonal Roulette and HIV/AIDS as Disability: Stigma and Social Support in Tension 467
• References 480
• 28 - The Margins of Communication: Coping With Adult Dementia 485
• References 501
• ENDNOTES 503
• VI - Setting a Future Agenda for Communication and Disability Research 505
• 29 - Communication and Disability Research: A Productive Past and a Bright Future 507
• References 515
• Author Index 517
• Subject index 535

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