Floating Signifiers: Managing Disability Language in Sweden

Floating Signifiers: Managing Disability Language in Sweden

This paper analyzes the management of intellectual disability language. I will focus specifically on the term flerfunktionsnedsättning which is the recommended Swedish equivalent for Profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD). This term reflects how, in Sweden, discourses and practices w...

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Main Author: Simo Vehmas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Stockholm University Press 2024-02-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
Subjects:
flerfunktionsnedsättning
profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
terminology
verbal hygiene
Online Access:https://account.sjdr.se/index.php/su-j-sjdr/article/view/1071

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