"My Disability Is Part of Me": Disclosure and Students with Visible Disabilities.

Autor/in	Rocco, Tonette S.
Titel	"My Disability Is Part of Me": Disclosure and Students with Visible Disabilities.
Quelle	(2001), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Adult Students; Attitudes toward Disabilities; College Faculty; College Students; Interpersonal Communication; Postsecondary Education; Qualitative Research; Rehabilitation Counseling; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Student Adjustment; Student Attitudes; Student Personnel Services; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Qualitative Forschung; Rehabilitation counselling; Rehabilitationsberatung; Adjustment; Adaptation; Schülerverhalten; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	Little research has been done on disability disclosure in education and employment. Instead, most research on disclosure has examined the effect disability has on the comfort level of the able-bodied. In order to explore how an adult with a disability learns to communicate to an instructor or employer what is needed for accommodation, interviews with 8 students with visible disabilities were conducted and analyzed with a constant comparative method to generate grounded theory. The students were asked questions about disclosure in the following areas: comfort level, under what conditions, describing the disability, reactions of others, and coaching or advice received. These five themes emerged: (1) how full disclosure differs individually; (2) how disclosure is a way to lessen tension for both the disabled student and others; (3) how disclosure affirms that the disability is a part of the disabled student; (4) how other people's responses to disability can vary greatly; and (5) how coaching or training on disclosure received through rehabilitation, counseling, and family support can also vary. (Contains 11 references.) (MO)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://www.edst.educ.ubc.ca/aerc/2001/2001rocco.htm.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC