ACCIDENTAL NARRATIVES: PERFORMING OUR STORIES
Chair: Jennifer L. Shamrock, Ithaca College
"Hands and the Man." James Ferris, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
"Fortunate (?), Falls, or The Legs and
I." Bruce Henderson, Ithaca College
Respondents: James L. Cherney, Westminster College & Carol Simpson Stern, Northwestern University
REACHING INTO OUR DISCIPLINE BY REACHING OUT TO DISABLED STUDENTS
Chair: David W. Worley, Indiana State University
Panelists:
Virgil R. Miller, University of Wisconsin,
Whitewater
Elaine B. Jenks, West Chester University
Dawn L. Carusi, Ohio University
Patricia C. Foley, Northeastern University
Robert D. Harrison, Gallaudet University
Respondent: Teresa L. Thompson, University of Dayton
This set of papers reaches into textbooks in varied areas across our discipline—the basic communication course, health communication, intercultural communication, and family and interpersonal communication—to determine whether we have reached out to people with disabilities.
INTERPERSONAL AND MEDIA PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY AND COMMUNICATION
Chair: Myrna M. Cornett-DeVito, Emporia State University
"Disability Narratives: Disability Dialectics
in Interpersonal Relationships." Christine S. Davis, University of South
Florida
"Communicating about Deafness: Deaf People
in Australian and American Print Media." Desmond J. Power, Griffith University
"Heightened Communication in Mixed Ability
Wheelchair Tennis." Edmund A. Kellerman, University of Florida
Respondent: Joy M. Cypher, Rowan University
REACHING IN:
EXAMINING DISABILITY AND POWER ISSUES ACROSS A VARIETY
OF COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS
Chair: Myrna M. Cornett-DeVito, Emporia State University
"Line Up By Rank, Gimps: Theatricality,
Performativity, and Hierarchies of Disability." James Ferris, University
of Wisconsin, Madison
"College Students with Learning Disabilities
and Their Responses to Situations They Perceive as Communicating Instructor
Communication Incompetence." David W. Worley, Indiana State University,
Myrna M. Cornett-DeVito,
Emporia State University
"Enactments of Power in the Disabled
Parent/Nondisabled Child Relationship." Joy M. Cypher, Rowan University
"The Powers of Disability: An Exploration
of Power in the Physician-Disabled Patient Relationship." Diane M. Ferrero-Paluzzi,
Iona College
"A Power Struggle between the Majority
and Minority: A case study of PWDs in Japan." Miho Iwakuma, Ursinus College
Respondent: Kelly P. Herold, Minnesota State University, Winona
COMMUNICATING FOR EMPOWERMENT
Chair: Janet L. Yedes, Kean University
Panelists:
Maria C. Perez, Kean University
James J. Akers, Kean University
Joseph Patrick Barone, Kean University
This panel examines using communication to empower individuals in personal, interpersonal, and workplace environments. Panelists explore ways a variety of issues including how individuals with disabilities use technology to empower themselves, research on work on friendships with autistic adults, and a critique of suggestions for improving communication between doctor and patient.
COMMUNICATING ACROSS THE DIVIDE: UNDERSTANDING EVERYDAY TALK ABOUT DISABILITY
Chair: Susan M. Ward, Regent University
Panelists:
Susan M. Ward, Regent University
Deborah A. Strong, Regent University
Suzanne M. Uhl, Mt. San Jacinto College
This panel purposes to expose the rhetorical choices societies have made regarding how communication takes place between the able-bodied and disabled sectors of communities by exploring through various methodological approaches including an analysis of the visual rhetoric behind the handicap symbol, an auto-ethnographic analysis of how adult children of parents with disabilities talk about themselves and a cultural analysis of how disabled people are treated in Nepal.
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