Integrating Visual Methods With Dialogical Interviews in Research With Youth Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

GailTeachman¹ 

关键词: methodology;    youth;    disability;    augmentative;    alternative communication;    communication impairment;    interviews;    dialogical;    photo-elicitation;    critical qualitative inquiry;    graphic elicitation;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406917750945

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Scant information is available to guide the selection and modification of methods for doing research with people with communication impairments. In this article, we describe and illustrate a novel combination of methods used to optimize data generation in research with 13 disabled youth who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Using a critical dialogical methodology developed for the study, we explored links between dominant calls for social inclusion, disabled youths’ social relations and life circumstances, and their position-takings in relation to inclusion. Building on emergent methodologies, we selected and integrated complementary methods: photo-elicitation, a graphic elicitation method termed “Belonging Circles,” observations, and interviews. The interview methods were modified to recognize all AAC modes used by participants and to acknowledge the relational, situated and thus, dialogical nature of all communication in interviews. Each method is described, and rationales for their ...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC