Isaacs Dane H
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Human and Social Capabilities Division, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
Afr J Disabil. 2021 Apr 23;10:773. doi: 10.4102/ajod.v10i0.773. eCollection 2021.
The last decade has seen researchers and speech-language pathologists employ and advocate for a disability studies approach in the study of the lived experiences of people who stutter and in the design of interventions and treatment approaches for such individuals. Joshua St. Pierre, one of the few theorists to explore stuttering as a disability, mentions as a key issue the liminal nature of people who stutter when describing their disabling experiences.
This article aimed to build on the work of St. Pierre, exploring the liminal nature of people who stutter.
Drawing on my personal experiences of stuttering as a coloured South African man, I illuminated the liminal nature of stuttering.
This analytic autoethnography demonstrates how the interpretation of stuttering as the outcome of moral failure leads to the discrimination and oppression of people who stutter by able-bodied individuals as well as individuals who stutter.
As long as stuttering is interpreted as the outcome of moral failure, the stigma and oppression, as well as the disablism experience by people who stutter, will continue to be concealed and left unaddressed.
在过去十年中,研究人员和言语病理学家在对口吃者生活经历的研究以及针对此类个体的干预和治疗方法设计中采用并倡导了残疾研究方法。约书亚·圣皮埃尔是少数将口吃视为一种残疾进行探索的理论家之一,他在描述口吃者的致残经历时提到,口吃者的阈限性质是一个关键问题。
本文旨在以圣皮埃尔的研究为基础,探讨口吃者的阈限性质。
借鉴我作为一名有色人种南非男性口吃的个人经历,我阐明了口吃的阈限性质。
这项分析性自我民族志研究表明,将口吃解释为道德失败的结果如何导致健全个体以及口吃者对口吃者的歧视和压迫。
只要口吃被解释为道德失败的结果,口吃者所经历的耻辱、压迫以及残疾歧视就会继续被掩盖且得不到解决。