Visually Impaired Characters: Has the Americans with Disabilities Act Changed the Way They are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature?
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- February 28, 2019
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Munro, Denise R.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- This study describes a content analysis of young adult literature which includes at least one visually impaired character. Eight novels published between 1957 and 2008 were selected and examined in regards to their portrayal of the visually impaired character(s). The focus of this paper is to see whether there are any differences in character portrayal in books published before and after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. Based on the findings, there is no significant difference in the portrayal of visually impaired characters in young adult novels published before and after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Any differences in their portrayal seem to come from the character's status as a major or minor character.
- Date of publication
- July 2010
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- Hughes-Hassell, Sandra
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 59
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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