Building Community and Creating Knowledge Through Participatory Research: Rethinking Intellectual Disability and Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The presentations in this session represent the perspectives and voices of members of a participatory educational research and development project that is developing digital tools to support self-advocacy and community living with and for people with intellectual disability. A fundamental part of the project team are self-advocates with intellectual disability who are actively engaged in all aspects of the project and who will be presenting in this session. Session participants will present the knowledge created through the project as well as share what they have learned about doing this kind of work. It is our collective goal to help build capacity for others to conduct participatory, translational educational research to support community living and participation for people with intellectual disability.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chair

• Danielle M. Cowley, Alfred University

Papers

• Doing Participatory Work: Building Community for All - Alan R. Foley, Syracuse University; Robert Belden, Syracuse University

• Forging New Spoken and Unspoken Ground: The Intersections of Mindfulness, Participatory Collaboration, and Intellectual Disability - Jersey Cosantino, Syracuse University

• Lost in Translation: The Intersection of Research (Methods, Ethics, and Dissemination) and Intellectual Disability - Brianna J Dickens, Syracuse University

• "How Do We Be Inclusive and Simple?" An Exploration of Shifting Understandings of Accessibility in a Participatory Action Research Study - Sara L Scribner, Springfield College; Micah Fialka Feldman, Syracuse University

Discussant

• Jessica K. Bacon, Montclair State University