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

• Published in: International journal of qualitative methods Vol. 17; no. 1
• Main Authors: Teachman, Gail, Gibson, Barbara E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.12.2018; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Augmentative and alternative communication; Belonging; Communication; Data collection; Elicitation; Interviews; People with disabilities; Research methodology; Social exclusion; Social integration; Social relations; Youth; disability; dialogical; graphic elicitation; photo-elicitation; communication impairment; augmentative and alternative communication; methodology; youth; critical qualitative inquiry; interviews

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 augm...