| Abstrakt: |
This paper focuses on communicating disabilities. Disability as a medical problem suggests persons with disabilities must be repaired. Disability as cognition focuses on the influence of attitudes toward disability or individual differences in personality traits that influence disabled-nondisabled interaction, moving away from objective notions of disability to subjective ones. Disability in culture examines the influence of culture on what constitutes disability, highlighting the ways that cultural definitions oppress and disempower persons with disabilities. Disability as culture views persons with disabilities as forming distinct cultures or cocultures, underscoring the empowering potential of disability as a cultural identity. Disability as politics recognizes the importance of empowering relationships in public and private discourse. Finally, disability as community incorporates several perspectives to provide a more complex view of disability and communication. |
