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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"disability performance"”.
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Infrastructural Dramaturgy and the Politics of Disability Art and Performance
This dissertation draws on performance studies, critical disability studies, and critical infrastructure studies scholarship to investigate the infrastructural politics of contemporary disability performance. Throughout, I show how disability performance enacts modes of infrastructural inversion …
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Coworker reactions to a partner with a physical disability
… the relative impact of a task partner's physical disability, performance, and interpersonal behavior on the other partner's evaluations of and willingness to collaborate with that individual on a subsequent task. Participants were 198 students paired with a female confederate in one of eight …
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SOCIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING IN ADOLESCENTS WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
… with and without a neurodevelopmental disability. Performance on these social measures was compared to caregiver ratings of social skills, and was also compared across diagnostic groups. 52 adolescents with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity …
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Factors affecting speech recognition in noise and hearing loss in adults with a wide variety of auditory capabilities
… like the cocktail party effect or observing performance of individuals in<br/>different types of speech-signal or noise as well as benefit and improvement with hearing aids.<br/>Another important area that has received much attention is investigating the inter-relations<br/>among various …
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Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
The performance art practices of Lisa Bufano, Martin O’Brien, and Ron Athey articulate a virtuosic disability that operates in the spaces between representation, embodied experience, and material traces of the diseased or disabled body. Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s model of affective, …
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"individual yet as one": Performing Deafness and Performing Community in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God
… the relationship between deafness, women, and performance in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God. The play was a massive popular success, both in its run on Broadway and its movie adaptation. Deafness and deaf people had never been so visible in American hearing culture. More importantly, …
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Performances of an Able, Academic Mind
… more precarity in the process. This project is a performance ethnography of my time in the academy, starting with my life as an undergraduate being disciplined into academic life, moving toward recruitment for graduate school, and ending with events surrounding the construction of this very …