Signs of Disability : New York University Press : 9781479811168 : 1479811165 : 22 Nov 2022 : How can we learn to notice the signs of disability? We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped ?deaf person in area? road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms ?dis-attention.? To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena?including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the se