Semiotics and Dis/Ability: Interrogating Categories of Difference
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Overview
Examines the ways that the labels disability and difference are socially and culturally constructed.Synopsis
Examines the ways that the labels disability and difference are socially and culturally constructed.
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Professionals in special education, early childhood, human development, and rehabilitation counseling use semiotics as a dynamic analytical tool to read the everyday lives of people categorized as having disabilities. They problematize their experience and examine the markers of lives that are considered different. Several of the 11 papers were based on presentations at a November 1996 symposium in San Francisco. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)