Michael wrote:
>I'm looking for narratives, personal accounts of disabled people and
their
>description of experience of disability a social barrier and more
>importantly, impairment...
You could always start at amazon.com :) Certainly, we've found several
narratives by brain injury survivors there, to add to our
self-advocacy group library.
One other poster asked *why* we should look for accounts of
disability. What to do with them? It's an issue I'd like to explore
further, too.
My starting points:
- Direct personal experience of disability gives people an expertise
that's difficult to acquire in other ways
- It's worth *trying* to share that "from the inside" expertise with
others
- Personal narratives are one way of doing this
I wonder, tho-- what is the best way to *use* personal narratives? Has
anyone else used them to educate professionals, students or the
community generally?
- Ria
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