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Constructing (in)competence - Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social interaction (Paperback)
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Constructing (in)competence - Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social interaction (Paperback)
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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. In the social
constructivist view, competence is not a fixed mass, residing
within an individual, or a fixed judgment, defined externally.
Rather, it is variable, sensitive to what is going on in the here
and now, and coconstructed by those present. Constructions of
competence are tied to evaluations implicit in the communication of
the participants as well as to explicit evaluations of how things
are going.
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.
This book makes an argument all helping professionals need to
hear: institutional, clinical, and social practices promoting
judgments must be changed to practices that are more positive and
empowering.
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