Constructing (In)Competence:
Disabling evaluations in clinical and social interaction
Dana Kovarsky
Judith Duchan
Madeline Maxwell (Eds.)
Hillsdale, NJ
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
1999
Table of Contents Part I Introduction 1. Evaluating competence in the course of everyday interaction Judith Duchan, Madeline Maxwell, and Dana Kovarsky Part II Hidden Factors Influencing Judgments of Competence 2. “I used to be good with kids.” Encounters between speech-language pathology students and children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) Robert Stillman, Ramona Snow, and Kirsten Warren 3. Slipping through the timestream: Social issues of time and timing in augmented interactions D. Jeffery Higginbotham and David P. Wilkins 4. How opposing perceptions of communication competence were constructed by Taiwanese graduate students Carol Jorgenson Winkler 5. The social competence of children diagnosed with specific language impairment Terry Irvine Saenz, Kelly Giligan Black, and Laura Pellegrini 6. Deaf members and nonmembers: The creation of culture through communication practices Madeline Maxwell, Diana Poeppelmeyer, and Laura Polich 7. Spiraling connections: The practice of repair in Bektashi muslim discourse Frances Trix Part III Diagnosis as Situated Practice 8. Good reasons for bad testing performance: The interactional substrate of educational testing Douglas W. Maynard and Courtney L. Marlaire 9. An Afro-centered view of communicative competence. Toya Wyatt 10. Reports written by speech-language pathologists: The role of agenda in constructing client competence Judith Felson Duchan 11. Revelations of family perceptions of diagnosis and disorder through metaphor Ann M. Mastergeorge 12. The social work of diagnosis” Evidence for judgments of competence and incompetence Ellen L. BartonPart IV Intervention as Situated Practice 13. The construction of incompetence during group therapy with traumatically brain injured adults Dana Kovarsky, Michael Kimbarow, and Deborah Kastner 14. Social role negotiation in aphasia therapy: Competence, incompetence, and conflict Nina Simmons-Mackie and Jack S. Damico 15. The social construction of language incompetence and social identity in psychotherapy Kathleen Ferrara |