A search for meaning: telling your life with learning disabilities

Jaime Helena Horn, Duncan Moss

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<jats:sec><jats:title>Accessible summary</jats:title><jats:p><jats:list list-type="bullet"><jats:list-item><jats:p>This article describes one woman's experience of living life with a learning disability.</jats:p></jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>It gives a summary of research into this area.</jats:p></jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>It describes a narrative approach.</jats:p></jats:list-item><jats:list-item><jats:p>This research is important as it helps us to understand the experiences of people with learning disabilities.</jats:p></jats:list-item></jats:list></jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Summary</jats:title><jats:p>Research has identified the collective experiences of oppression, stigma and isolation in the lives of people with learning disabilities. Against the backdrop of social and cultural processes that shape and limit the life experiences of people with learning disabilities, the authors are interested in how the individual develops a sense of self and identity. The aim is to further understand the subjective world of one woman with learning disabilities, drawing attention to how meaning about herself and her world has been constructed. The authors present and analyse one woman's life story, adopting a narrative and participatory research approach, with its focus on personal experience, whilst making links between the individual and social world.</jats:p></jats:sec>
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)178-185
Number of pages0
JournalBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities
Volume43
Issue number3
Early online date18 Apr 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2015

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