Lonely Joy: How Families with Nonverbal Children with Disabilities Communicate, Collaborate, and Resist in a World that Values Words

Drawing on ethnographic research with four families with children with profound cognitive disabilities who are nonverbal, this article argues that communication and joy among such families are undermined by common perceptions of disability as tragedy and lack of language as absence of communication....

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Authors: Raffety, Erin (Author) ; Foote, Laura S. (Author) ; Harris, Emily (Author) ; Vollrath, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2019]
In: Journal of pastoral theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 101-115
RelBib Classification:NCB Personal ethics
RG Pastoral care
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Disability
B Resistance
B Joy
B Families
B Communication
B nonverbal
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)