Able-Bodied Instructors and Students with Physical Disabilities: A Relationship Handicapped by Communication.

Identifies four roles explaining how able-bodied instructors communicate with physically disabled students: the avoider, the guardian, the rejector, and the nurturer. Describes and illustrates each role with events that happened in classrooms. Concludes that able-bodied instructors communicate differently with students with physical disabilities than with able-bodied students. (SR)