Constructing and Navigating Cultural Borderlands Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication

This article explores the challenges and tensions implicit in shifting between cultural roles of Natural Speaker and Aided Communicator using the construct of cultural borderlands. Borderlands are first explored in terms of social participation, focusing on questions such as whether aided communication offers a bridge across borderlands or constitutes a marker of cultural difference and on the question of ownership of aided communication. The borderlands of speaker–listener roles that are negotiated within interactions involving aided communication are then considered. Possible implications of how the construct of cultural borderlands supports understanding of interactions involving aided communication are suggested.
Source: Topics in Language Disorders - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research