This study draws on research and programs in Sweden, England, Canada, and the United States to examine communication interaction between a person using a communication aid and a person who is an able-bodied, natural speaker. It primarily addresses the child or adult with normal or near-normal cognitive abilities who uses augmentation and interacts…

Considers the ways in which the media constructs and represents information, particularly in relation to subjects defined by class, race, or gender. Compares conceptions of the "public" by John Dewey and Walter Lippmann with current postmodernist thinking. Recommends that citizenship education incorporate a critically-oriented media…