Semiotics and Dis/ability

Linda J. Rogers is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Kent State University and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America. She is the author of Wish I Were: Felt Pathways of the Self. Beth Blue Swadener is Professor of Early Childhood Education at Kent State University and the coeditor (with Sally Lubeck) of Children and Families "At Promise": Deconstructing the Discourse of Risk, and author (with Margaret Kabiru and Anne Njenga) of Does the Village Still Raise the Child?: A Collaborative Study of Changing Child-Rearing and Early Education in Kenya, both published by SUNY Press, and coeditor (with Shirley A. Kessler) of Reconceptualizing the Early Childhood Curriculum: Beginning the Dialogue.

"I have to confess that even a grizzled old veteran like me was thoroughly engaged in these stories and wished for more." — Donald J. Cunningham, Indiana University, Bloomington

• Acknowledgments IntroductionLinda J. Rogers and Beth Blue Swadener PART I. Theoretical and Cultural Framing 1. Engaging Anthropology in Disability StudiesDevva Kasnitz and Russell P. Shuttleworth 2. Searching for the Cure: Virtual Disability and Collective Action in an Electronic Support GroupGerald Gold 3. View From the Ivory Tower: Academics Constructing DisabilityRobin M. Smith 4. Symbolic Contexts, Embodied Sensitivities, and the Lived Experience of Sexually Relevant Interpersonal Encounters for a Man with Severe Cerebral PalsyRussell P. Shuttleworth Shareholder CommentaryJohn C. Rossiter PART II. Personal Narratives of Confronting Disability: Insider/Outsider Embedding and Disembedding 5. Semiotics of Accessibility and the Culture of DisabilityN. Kagendo Mutua 6. A Mother's Construction of the Semiotic SelfNancy Stockall 7. Advocating for Full Inclusion: Mother's NarrativesAsha Saini Shareholder CommentaryMara Sapon-Shevin PART III. The Semiosis of Engagement: At/In/About and With 8. Personal Assistance Service and Youth in TransitionMarissa Nicole Shaw 9. Both Emic and Etic: A View of the World Through the Lens of the Ugly DucklingRobertta Thoryk, Patricia Roberts, and Angela M. Battistone 10. The Miller Method: An Early Intervention Program to Help Young Children with Autism Make Meaning in Their LivesChristine E. Cook 11. The Meaning of Disability for Grandparents of Young Children with Special NeedsElizabeth Lane Brennan and Philip L. Safford Shareholder CommentaryTim P. Karash Epilogue: After and Into the Narrative FrameLinda J. Rogers, Beth Blue Swadener, and Tembinkosi Nyangiwe End Notes: Semiotically Digesting Dis/abilityFloyd Merrell and Myrdene Anderson Contributors Index