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ERIC Number: EJ1422394
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jun
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0143-0343
EISSN: EISSN-1461-7374
Elevating Disabled Voices: Decentering Power in School Psychology Scholarship
Devadrita Talapatra; Laurel A. Snider; Kayla McCreadie; Eileen Cullen
School Psychology International, v45 n3 p215-232 2024
People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have experienced involuntary and inhumane research practices. Consequently, researchers have shifted towards "excluding" those with IDs; caregivers, teachers, or peers compose study samples, dominating a space they "indirectly" experience. Researcher bias regarding intellectual capacity has resulted in a unique research gap that overlooks insights from the population the research is intended to benefit. People with ID are interested in research participation and have a right to be included in decision-making that impacts them. Emancipatory inquiry allows school psychology scholars to center student voices while also promoting social justice. Emancipatory inquiry empowers the "subjects" of social inquiry by producing knowledge that directly benefits disenfranchised populations. Emancipatory inquiry aligns with the social justice frame of DisCrit, which compels us to privilege the voices of marginalized populations and recognize that many of the gains for disabled populations have largely occurred because of the benefits they afford White, able-bodied, middle-class citizens. Using Emancipatory inquiry, school psychology scholars can prepare trainees and future researchers to conduct ethically sound research, prioritize first-person voices of those with ID, provide socially valid services to students and their families, and move school psychology closer to partnership with the disabled community.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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