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The Digital Lives of People with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations

Williams, PE; (2017) The Digital Lives of People with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations. Conference of the International Journal of Arts & Sciences , 10 (3) pp. 209-214. Green open access

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Abstract

Mobile technology is becoming ubiquitous, with usage ranging across such diverse activities as direction-finding, music storage, photography, texting, checking social-media, accessing newspapers and watching TV. This paper describes a major study examining the use of such technology by people with Learning Disabilities (LD). It concentrates on the issues related to undertaking research with this specific cohort – such as difficulties participants may have in generalising, abstract thinking, and the possible tendency to simply agree with comments or questions made by the researcher (known as acquiesce bias) - and methods being adopted to minimise or obviate these completely.

Type: Article
Title: The Digital Lives of People with Learning Disabilities: Methodological Considerations
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://universitypublications.net/proceedings/1003...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved. This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Learning disabilities, Mobile technology, Methods
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041731
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