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- Title
Making focus groups accessible and inclusive for people with communication disabilities: a research note.
- Authors
Trevisan, Filippo
- Abstract
Participating in focus groups can be challenging for people with communication disabilities. Given that more than 1 in 10 adults has a communication disability, focus groups that overlook their needs exclude a large part of the population. This research note makes a unique contribution toward creating more inclusive focus groups by discussing a variety of strategies employed in a recent study of political participation among Americans with disabilities that included a high proportion of participants with communication disorders. Universal design principles can support the "mainstreaming" of communication disabilities in focus group research, contributing to more inclusive and representative social science scholarship.
- Subjects
UNIVERSAL design; FOCUS groups; FACILITATED communication; COMMUNICATIVE disorders; MAINSTREAMING in special education; QUALITATIVE research; DECISION making; PEOPLE with disabilities; NEEDS assessment
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 4, p619
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1177/1468794120941846