Disability, sibling relationships and everyday life: exploring mundane realities as counter-storytelling

这项拟议的研究直接涉及将残疾纳入教育和社会(ECY)的关键挑战，通过展望经常被忽视的学习残疾人(CDD)兄弟姐妹的观点，这些观点对家庭的健康和福祉(CDD)具有巨大影响。家庭及其成员是参与促进学习障碍人士的社会包容和社区参与的关键社会行为者；尽管他们的专门知识和经验往往在研究、政策和实践中缺失。这一创新项目通过采用反讲故事的方法集中了兄弟姐妹的观点--产生更多积极的家庭故事，使学术讨论从常见的家庭残疾病态叙述中转移出来。在关键种族理论中认识到它的起源；反故事讲述将捕捉和更多来自于不良家庭成长经历的反故事。使用这种方法和关键的残疾研究，这项研究将挖掘家庭中关于儿童残疾的欢庆和积极的叙述。虽然残疾将不可避免地被纳入其中，但兄弟姐妹如何反思他们更广泛的童年，无疑将与包括阶级、地点、性别和种族/民族在内的问题联系在一起。

This proposed research engages directly with the key challenge ofdisability inclusion in education and society (ECY) through a foregroundingof the often ignored perspectives of siblings of people with learningdisabilities (CDD) which have huge implications for the health andwell-being of families (CDD). Families and their members are key socialactors involved in promoting the societal inclusion and communityparticipation of people with learning disabilities; though their expertise andexperiences are often missing from research, policy and practice. Thisinnovative project centralises the perspectives of siblings through thedeployment of a methodology of counter-storytelling - to generate moreaffirmative familial stories that move academic discussion away fromcommonplace pathological narratives of disability in families. Recognisingits origins within critical race theory; counter-storytelling will capture andexplore counter stories of experiences that come from growing up in adisabled family. Using this approach alongside critical disability studies, theresearch will excavate celebratory and positive narratives of childhooddisability in the family. While disability will inevitably feature in this, howsiblings themselves reflect on their wider childhoods will undoubtedlyconnect with issues including class, location, gender and race/ethnicity.