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TY - JOUR
T1 - Offering choices to people with intellectual disabilities
T2 - an interactional study
AU - Antaki, Charles
AU - Finlay, W.M.L.
AU - Walton, Chris
AU - Pate, Louise
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - intellectual disabilities
KW - choices
KW - interaction
KW - conversation analysis
KW - residential homes
KW - staff
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01101.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2008.01101.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 52
SP - 1165
EP - 1175
JO - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
JF - Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
SN - 0964-2633
IS - 12
ER -