CONGRESS CANCELED Disability as Language: Rethinking Communication in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
Description
When medievalists describe disability, we tend to
use spoken speech to convey our ideas around what disability is
(or is not). This prioritization of speech implicitly obscures
non-verbal and alternative means of communication that are either
a result of disability or non-verbal means of communicating that
a person has a disability. This roundtable proposes to examine
the non-verbal communication strategies that were employed to
represent disability. Tory V. Pearman
CONGRESS CANCELED Disability as Language: Rethinking Communication in the Middle Ages (A Roundtable)
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When medievalists describe disability, we tend to
use spoken speech to convey our ideas around what disability is
(or is not). This prioritization of speech implicitly obscures
non-verbal and alternative means of communication that are either
a result of disability or non-verbal means of communicating that
a person has a disability. This roundtable proposes to examine
the non-verbal communication strategies that were employed to
represent disability. Tory V. Pearman