Essay on voice to the voice less power to the power less
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Many people use their voices everyday—to talk to people, to communicate their needs and wants—but the idea of ‘voice’ goes much deeper. Having a voice gives an individual agency and power, and a way to express his or her beliefs. But what happens when that voice is expressed differently from the norm? What happens when that voice is in some way silenced?
Meryl Alper, assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern, explored this idea of “voice” in children and young teenagers who used an iPad app that converted symbols to audible words to help them communicate.
While it may seem like the app helped to return voice to those who used it, Alper found that the technology was subject to economic structures and defined through the lens of ableism.
“People with disabilities are not passively given voices by the able-bodied; disabled individuals, rather, are actively taking and making them,” she said.
Her book on the subject, Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality, was recently recognized by the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Awards, which honor “the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.”