Facilitating choice when engaging young people with disabilities: reflections from co-researcher training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A collaborative approach is critical in inclusive research and should incorporate taking time to build relationships with co-researchers based on trust and shared understanding. Involvement can often be seen as tokenistic and in order to avoid this, it is important to provide opportunities for people to exercise choice throughout the research process.

Main body

The current paper outlines learnings from a co-researcher training process for young people with disabilities to identify the ways in which meaningful choice can be facilitated with this group. While conducting training of co-researchers in topics such as research methods, we were continuously led by the group with regards to the directions that the sessions took and promoted problem solving with the group

SUBMITTER: Nicholson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11348645 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature