by
Walters, Shannon, author.
Call Number
808 23
Publication Date
2014
Summary
"Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds, Shannon Walters explores how people with various disabilities--psychological, cognitive, and physical--employ touch to establish themselves as communicators and to connect with disabled and nondisabled audiences. In doing so, she argues for a theory of rhetoric that understands and values touch as rhetorical. Essential to her argument is a redefinition of key concepts and terms--the rhetorical situation, rhetorical identification, and the appeals of ethos (character), pathos (emotion), and logos (logic or message). By connecting Empedoclean and sophistic theories to Aristotelian rhetoric and Burkean approaches, Walters's methods mobilize a wide range of key figures in rhetorical history and theory in response to the context of disability. Using Empedocles' tactile approach to logos, Walters shows how the iterative writing processes of people with psychological disabilities shape crucial spaces for identification based on touch in online and real life spaces. Mobilizing the touch-based properties of the rhetorical practice of mētis, Walters demonstrates how rhetors with autism approach the crafting of ethos in generative and embodied ways. Rereading the rhetorical practice of kairos in relation to the proximity between bodies, Walters demonstrates how writers with physical disabilities move beyond approaches of pathos based on pity and inspiration. The volume also includes a classroom-based exploration of the discourses and assumptions regarding bodies in relation to haptic, or touch-based, technologies. Because the sense of touch is the most persistent of the senses, Walters argues that in contexts of disability and in situations in which people with and without disabilities interact, touch can be a particularly vital instrument for creating meaning, connection, and partial identification. She contends that a rhetoric thus reshaped stretches contemporary rhetoric and composition studies to respond to the contributions of disabled rhetors and transforms the traditional rhetorical appeals and canons. Ultimately, Walters argues, a rhetoric of touch allows for a richer understanding of the communication processes of a wide range of rhetors who use embodied strategies. "--
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Davidson, Michael, 1944-
Call Number
362.4 22
Publication Date
2008
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by
Heller, Tamar.
Call Number
362.4 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Explores issues involving disability through the life courses, and is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.
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Gleeson, Brendan, 1964- author.
Call Number
305.90816 21
Publication Date
1999
Summary
This book explores the relationship between space and disability explaining how space, place and mobility shape the experiences of disabled people.
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Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund.
Call Number
362.404561 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Explores ethical, legal, and policy issues of people with disabilities and examines topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families.
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Ideas That Work (Firm)
Call Number
TR DVD 305.90816 JUS
Publication Date
2001
Summary
"If you've ever wondered: - should you offer to push someone in a wheel chair? - can you say "Look" to a person who has trouble seeing? - why does someone with a hearing impairment need to see your face? - how do you communicate with someone who has trouble speaking? then "Just like you" will provide the answers to these, and many more questions. Manners are not something that come naturally [you] have to learn them. And manners are important for everyone, including people who have a disability. A person with a disability appreciates the usual rules of courtesy and conversation - just like you."--Container.
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Hagglund, Kristofer J.
Call Number
362.4 22
Publication Date
2006
Summary
Now, more than ever, the field of rehabilitation psychology is growing. This book--one of the few that focuses solely on rehabilitation psychology research--provides the reader with the most up-to-date look at research. and practice within the field of rehabilitation psychology. It offers recommendations for future research programs, policy changes, and clinical interventions from the various perspectives within rehabilitation psychology research and practice, and seeks to demonstrate how much the field can evolve with the implementation of these changes. Topics covered include:.: Assistive te.
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Worrell, Tracy R., 1974- author.
Call Number
791.456527 23
Publication Date
2018
Summary
This book takes a unique look at not only the presentation of disability in the media but also how image echoes impact individuals with disabilities and their identities and possible stigmatization. It provides an empirical analysis in the form of two case studies including primary research.
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