 Seibers, T. (2008). Disability theory. University of Michigan Press.

State University of New York at Binghamton

This theory positions the "impaired body as existing before language and social construction". This is a crucial distinction for researchers using Discursive Psychology. While DP focuses on how reality is constructed through talk (language), Siebers’ theory reminds scholars that the physical, impaired body has a central reality that precedes description. It bridges the gap between the physical reality of impairment and the social construction of disability.

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