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‘Being friends means helping each other, making coffee for each other’: reciprocity in the friendships of people with intellectual disability
- Author:
- CALLUS Anne-Marie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 32(1), 2017, pp.1-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Friendship is an issue of concern for many people with intellectual disability. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to understand how people with intellectual disability experience friendship and what friendship means for them. A focus group was held with seven people with intellectual disability, who are members of a self-advocacy group. An inductive thematic analysis approach was used to analyse the data. The people that the research participants identified as their friends were fellow self-advocates, family members, support workers and co-workers. They also identified behaviours and actions that foster friendship and those that undermine it. The analysis shows how the research participants identified as friendships those relationships which had an element of reciprocity, while linking a lack of reciprocity with the absence of friendship. It is very important for non-disabled people to understand the perspectives of people with intellectual disability they live and work with. (Edited publisher abstract)
Constructing sexual identities: people with intellectual disability talking about sexuality
- Authors:
- AZZOPARDI-LANE Claire, CALLUS Anne-Marie
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43(1), 2015, pp.32-37.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper presented research undertaken in collaboration with a self-advocacy group using inclusive research methods and puts forward the views of people with intellectual disability on the topics of sexuality and relationships. The paper presents the perceptions of sexuality of the people with intellectual disability and how these are influenced by social and cultural norms. Using Judith Bulter's concept of performativity, the analysis of the findings shows how some people with intellectual disability accept the sexual norms that are ascribed to them, while others resist them. The paper also shows how the inclusive research process itself enabled the people with intellectual disability who took part to articulate their acceptance or resistance of these norms. (Publisher abstract)