Discourses of Disability, Narratives of Community: Reclaiming an Autistic Identity Online

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 336-356

  Parsloe, Sarah M ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Disability Discourses; Identity; Narrative; Othering; Reclaiming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938331683     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909882.2015.1052829     Document Type: Article

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