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‘I won't think of meself as a learning disability. But I have’: social identity and self‐advocacy
Author(s) -
Beart Suzie
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
british journal of learning disabilities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1468-3156
pISSN - 1354-4187
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3156.2005.00350.x
Subject(s) - self advocacy , learning disability , identity (music) , psychology , social identity theory , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , developmental psychology , psychoanalysis , pedagogy , social group , physics , acoustics
Summary In this paper the small body of research which looks at how people labelled as having learning disabilities view this social identity is considered. The author argues that this research has implications for our assumptions about self‐advocacy groups for people with learning disabilities.