Offering Choices to People with Intellectual Disabilities: An Interactional Study

Autor/inn/en	Antaki, C.; Finlay, W.; Walton, C.; Pate, L.
Titel	Offering Choices to People with Intellectual Disabilities: An Interactional Study
Quelle	In: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 52 (2008) 12, S.1165-1175 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-2633
DOI	10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01101.x
Schlagwörter	Mental Retardation; Ethnography; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geistige Behinderung; Ethnografie; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Background: At the level of policy recommendation, it is agreed that people with intellectual impairments ought to be given opportunities to make choices in their lives; indeed, in the UK, the Mental Capacity Act of 2005 enshrines such a right in law. However, at the level of practice, there is a dearth of evidence as to how choices are actually offered in everyday situations, which must hinder recommendations to change. Method: This qualitative interactional study, based on video recordings in British residential homes, combines ethnography with the fine-grained methods of Conversation Analysis. Results: We identify six conversational practices that staff use to offer choices to residents with intellectual disabilities. Conclusions: We describe the unwanted consequences of some of these practices, and how the institutional imperative to solicit clear and decisive choice may sometimes succeed only in producing the opposite. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10