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Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Rhetoric, and Self-Advocacy: A Case Study

Kamperman, Sean Allen
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429687963749

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
Using grounded methods and deploying a critical disability studies framework, this dissertation assesses how people who identify or are identified as having intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) use their rhetorical skills—specifically, their self-advocacy skills—to access academic life. Through interviews and observations of rhetors affiliated with an innovative inclusive education program pseudonymously titled “STEP” (“Successful Transitions and Educational Progress”), I offer a practice account of I/DD’s relation to rhetoricity, or rhetorical capacity, in academic spaces. Contra to officialized discourses that portray self-advocacy as the responsibility of individual rhetors, I attend to self-advocacy’s social and rhetorical dimensions across three “sites”: student self-advocacy practices, assessment technologies used to measure student self-determination, and the self-advocacy practices of professional self-advocates. After a methodological commentary on the need for qualitative researchers in rhetoric and writing studies to attend to accessibility as a practical and theoretical concern, I conclude by reflecting on the implications of my findings for rhetorical education writ large: specifically, for how teachers conceive of the relationship between collaboration and credibility in their classrooms.
Christa Teston, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Margaret Price, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Amy Shuman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
255 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
rhetoric; writing studies; professional and technical writing; disability studies; intellectual and developmental disability; self-advocacy; psychometrics

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  • Kamperman, S. A. (2019). Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Rhetoric, and Self-Advocacy: A Case Study [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429687963749

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kamperman, Sean. Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Rhetoric, and Self-Advocacy: A Case Study. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429687963749.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kamperman, Sean. "Intellectual/Developmental Disability, Rhetoric, and Self-Advocacy: A Case Study." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555429687963749

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