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‘Our Journey Through Time’: an oral history project carried out by young people with learning disabilities
Author(s) -
Bentley Sarah,
Nicholls Rickie,
Price Maxine,
Wilkinson Aaron,
Purcell Matthew,
Woodhall Martin,
Walmsley Jan
Publication year - 2011
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.1468-3156.2010.00668.x
Subject(s) - learning disability , oral history , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , anthropology
Accessible summary• This paper is about an oral history project to find out about long‐stay hospitals in their local area carried out by a group of young people with learning disabilities. • It describes how they went about the project and made a film, and what they learnt through doing it.Summary We are five young people with learning disabilities who found out about the history of hospitals for people with learning disabilities in our area, and made a film about the project. The project taught us what life had been like for some people with learning disabilities only 30 years ago. It was very different to our lives; we have more choice, more freedom and more opportunities. As part of the project, we learnt how to ask questions, to listen, to record information and to produce a film.