>Hi all
Re Clair's comments about measurement of disability
>surely its levels of oppression which infulence most our experience as
>disabled people - two people
>with identical impairments usually have different life experience, as much
>as common experience
>related to their impairments.
Maybe I read it differently but my impression was that the person wishing
to conduct the research into incidences of domestic violence (and other
specific experiences) being more prevalent in people with a 'higher level
of impairment' (this is not a quote - its my recall) is just testing a
correlation. The researcher to my understanding did not say how the level
of disability would be determined. Self identification of a particular
level of impairment regardless of it being "part of their oppression" is
still valid as an individual experience. It would be useful to know why
particular individuals identify as having a higher level of impairment and
whether their self-identity has any correlation to incidences of outside
oppression including domestic violence. It would be useful for instance to
see whether the correlation suggests a chicken and egg kinda thing.
>for example someone with same, (for sake of argument lets call them
>'moderate' ;) impairments as
>me, with lots of money, accesible home, all the assistance they need, no
>child, no child abuse
>experience, nice job, big car, status.. straight... male... married (also
>white) might have a
>comepletely diffferent, more inclusive expereince of both
>society, disability and heirarchy..
>
>say if Richard Branson had my impairments.. would he be living up a flight
>of stairs for three
>years in a council flat with a disabled child and own wheelchair.? I doubt it.
>
>i dont see how impairment level can be separated out from the rest of our
>situation (if you had
>said impairment 'group' i might have thought more in common, but it still
>cant be separated from
>the rest of our situation) .
>
>- if this is your participants perception surely thats part of their
>oppression, individualising
>their sitations... and does creating individual definitions encourage
>this, or help get rid?
As I suggested above, I believe it is important to have more knowledge of
individual experiences and it helps to avoid group-think ideology that can
sometimes be self-serving. It is how the research is approached, the
methodology used and how the data is analysed that becomes the issue for
critique. Feedback regarding approaches etc and the issues one needs to be
aware of are often appreciated by researchers. Asking the researchers about
how they are approaching the issue and finding out a little bit more about
their proposed research allows you to be able to provide feedback and to
avoid the sort of blanket trashing of what could be very valuable work.
Personally I find that my own research is guided very much by the feedback
I receive from the people most interested.
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