On Not Being Noticed: Intellectual Disabilities and the Nonvocal Register

Finlay, W. M. L.; Antaki, Charles; Walton, Chris

doi:10.1352/1934-9556(2007)45[227:onbnid]2.0.co;2

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“…Conversation Analysis has been usefully applied in institutional settings involving people with various kinds of communication difficulty. Pertinently for the study we report here, CA has been used to open up the practices of staff supporting people with intellectual impairments in building social relationships (Antaki et al 2007a), in encouraging residents to talk (Antaki et al 2007b), in playing a game (Finlay et al 2008c), in overlooking non-verbal communication (Finlay et al 2008a) and in dealing with residents' refusals (Finlay et al 2008b, d).…”

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Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study

Antaki

Finlay

Walton

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J intellect Disabil Res

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At the level of policy recommendation, it is agreed that people with intellectual impairments ought to be given opportunities to make choices in their lives; indeed, in the UK, the Mental Capacity Act of 2005 enshrines such a right in law. However, at the level of practice, there is a dearth of evidence as to how choices are actually offered in everyday situations, which must hinder recommendations to change. This qualitative interactional study, based on video recordings in British residential homes, combines ethnography with the fine-grained methods of Conversation Analysis to identify some conversational practices that staff use to offer choices to residents with intellectual disabilities. We describe the unwanted consequences of some of these practices, and how the institutional imperative to solicit clear and decisive choice may sometimes succeed only in producing the opposite.

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“…2007b), in playing a game (Finlay et al. 2008c), in overlooking non‐verbal communication (Finlay et al. 2008a) and in dealing with residents’ refusals (Finlay et al.…”

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Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study

Antaki

Finlay

Walton

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J intellect Disabil Res

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“…1999a); (iii) show difficulty interpreting the non‐verbal signals of their clients (McConkey et al. 1999b; Finlay et al. 2007); and (iv) lack understanding of the extra time needed to interact successfully (Purcell et al.…”

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“…Similarly, more recent studies conducted in day centres and group homes have revealed limited opportunities for social interactions between staff and service users. Paid workers have been observed to (i) control interactions ); (ii) use more instructions than questions (McConkey et al 1999a); (iii) show difficulty interpreting the non-verbal signals of their clients (McConkey et al 1999b;Finlay et al 2007); and (iv) lack understanding of the extra time needed to interact successfully (Purcell et al 1999).…”

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Social Interaction with Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability: Having Fun and Hanging Out

Johnson

Douglas

Bigby

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Research Intellect Disabil

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“…As Finlay et al's (2007) conversation analytic study has shown, the experience of 'not being noticed' inhabits the turn-by-turn process in spoken interaction for this group where gestures, sounds and other phenomena are passed over as turns at talk. Studying the process through which tools can assist to translate these communications into meaningful works requires specifically customised methodological processes.…”

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Digital technologies and musical participation for people with intellectual disabilities

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Summerville

Knox

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New Media & Society

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Barbara Adkins is a sociologist whose research focuses on the role of design in social and cultural life. She is an associate professor in the School of Design in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia and was formerly education manager and researcher at the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design.Jennifer Summerville is a sociologist specialising in participatory research and evaluation methods. She is currently the Research and Development Coordinator at the Health and Community Services Workforce Council and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology. Jenny is a keen advocate for building research capacity as a foundation for inclusion and continuous improvement. Her research interests centre on strategies and applications to support workforce planning and development in the health and community services industries.Marie Knox has an extensive background in disability studies research. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in the School of Public Health and Social Work at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Studies affiliated with the University of Sydney where she leads the research program.Andrew Brown Andrew R. Brown is a computational artist, researcher and educator. He is Professor of Digital Arts at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, in Australia and was previously the Research Manager for the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID). Andrew is an active computational artist working in music and visual domains. His research interests include technology 2 support for creativity and learning, computational aesthetics and the philosophy of technology.Steve C. Dillon Sadly, our colleague and friend, Dr Steve Dillon, passed away on April 1 st 2012. He was a singer songwriter, music educator and musicologist, and a senior lecturer in Music and Sound at Queensland University of Technology. He was director of save to DISC Research Network and project Leader of the Network Jamming Research Group. His research interests were meaningful engagement with music making and designing digital media technologies and relational pedagogies to provide access to cognitive growth, health and well being through music making. He leaves behind an important legacy in researching and developing tools to support participation in music making. AbstractResearch on the aspirations of people with intellectual disabilities documents the importance of alternative zones of inclusion where they can assert their own definitions of ability and normality. This stands in contrast to assumptions concerning technology and disability that position technology as 'normalising' the disabled body. This paper reports on the role of a digital music jamming tool in providing access to creative practice by people with intellectual disabilities. The tool contributed to the development of a spatio-temporal zone to enable aesthetic agency withi...

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On Not Being Noticed: Intellectual Disabilities and the Nonvocal Register

Cited by 15 publications

References 23 publications

Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study

Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities: an interactional study

Social Interaction with Adults with Severe Intellectual Disability: Having Fun and Hanging Out

Digital technologies and musical participation for people with intellectual disabilities

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