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Nonverbal narratives: listening to people with severe intellectual disability
This article describes an exploratory study that examined the perspectives of practitioners who spend much of their working day listening to and in some ways “interpreting” for people with severe intellectual disabilities. On the basis of focus group interviews with 23 professional disability-sector workers, including speech therapists, psychologists, and human service workers, the article reports on the importance of a practitioner's values and experience in successful interactions with individuals who rely on self-developed nonsymbolic communication repertoires. The article includes a discussion of the likelihood of including individuals with severe intellectual disabilities in narrative research.
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Research and practice for persons with severe disabilitiesVolume
27Issue
4Pagination
239 - 249Publisher
SAGE PublicationsLocation
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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1540-7969eISSN
2169-2408Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2002, TASHUsage metrics
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