Research Catalog

Title

Constructing (in) competence : disabling evaluations in clinical and social interaction / editors; Dana Kovarsky, Judith Felson Duchan, Madeline Maxwell.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Kovarsky, Dana.
• Duchan, Judith F.
• Maxwell, Madeline M.

Description

vi, 381 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities as they interact. The flexible situated view of competence conveyed by the research of the authors in this volume is a departure from the way that competence is usually thought about in the fields of communication disabilities and education." "The authors address the social construction of competence in a variety of situations: engaging in therapy for communication and other disorders, working and living with people with disabilities, speaking a second language, living with deafness, and giving and receiving instruction. Their studies focus on adults and children, including those with disabilities (aphasia, traumatic brain injury, augmentative systems users), as they go about managing their lives and identities. They examine the all-important context in which participants make competence judgments, assess the impact of implicit judgments and formal diagnoses, and look at the types of evaluations made during interaction."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Communicative disorders > Social aspects
• Communicative disorders > Psychological aspects
• Therapist and patient
• Impression formation (Psychology)
• Disability evaluation
• Communication Disorders > diagnosis
• Communication Disorders > psychology
• Disability Evaluation
• Imprinting, Psychological
• Professional-Patient Relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Introduction. 1. Evaluating Competence in the Course of Everyday Interaction / Judith Duchan, Madeline Maxwell and Dana Kovarsky -- pt. II. Hidden Factors Influencing Judgments of Competence. 2. "I Used to Be Good With Kids." Encounters Between Speech-Language Pathology Students and Children With Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD) / Robert Stillman, Ramona Snow and Kirsten Warren. 3. Slipping Through the Timestream: Social Issues of Time and Timing in Augmented Interactions / D. Jeffery Higginbotham and David P. Wilkins. 4. How Opposing Perceptions of Communication Competence Were Constructed by Taiwanese Graduate Students / Carol Jorgenson Winkler. 5. The Social Competence of Children Diagnosed With Specific Language Impairment / Terry Irvine Saenz, Kelly Gilligan Black and Laura Pellegrini. 6. Deaf Members and Nonmembers: The Creation of Culture Through Communication Practices / Madeline Maxwell, Diana Poeppelmeyer and Laura Polich. 7. Spiraling Connections: The Practice of Repair In Bektashi Muslim Discourse / Frances Trix -- pt. III. Diagnosis as Situated Practice. 8. Good Reasons For Bad Testing Performance: The Interactional Substrate of Educational Testing / Douglas W. Maynard and Courtney L. Marlaire. 9. An Afro-Centered View of Communicative Competence / Toya Wyatt. 10.

ISBN

0805825908 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98024197^

OCLC

39122696

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library