Publications

Publication details [#60343]

Blockmans, Inge. 2015. “Not Wishing to Be the White Rhino in the Crowd”: Disability-Disclosure at University. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (2) : 158–180.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | communicative efficiency | disease terminology | health | identity negotiation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

13 physically disabled students at 5 Belgian higher education institutions experience interactional handicap revelation as balancing physical wants and a normal, positive identity. Functions advanced by the Communication Predicament of Disability Model and the CARE-keys to successful interability communication are debated.