Post on 12-Jan-2015
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Dr Ruth GarbuttUniversity of Leeds
3 years
Collaborative- Leeds University and CHANGE
Funded by the Big Lottery
Aim: to find out the views and experiences of young people with learning disabilities around sex and relationships.
4 people:
ResearcherCoordinators (2)Illustrator
Interviews with parentsFocus groups with teachersQuestionnaires of special schools
Drama with young people
1. 20 weeks with young people- Getting to know you, games, developing skills- Then talking about sex and relationships
2. Analysis of data
3. 20 weeks with young people, using the data from the 1st 20 weeks to workshop and develop a play. (With the Rainbow group)
4. Performance of play
Watching the videos (more than once)- the whole team
Reading the transcripts
‘It was important to transcribe the DVD because we need to know that what we say and do in our job is correct because we have to be sure we are doing the right thing in our job.’ (Final Report, 2010)
Categories:
Changes over time Important points Play ideas Worked well and not so well Leaflet ideas
Category Use of information
Changes over time • Showed confidence and empowerment of young people
Important points • Results of project- to go into final report
Play ideas • To go into the play
Worked well and not so well
• Feedback to staff for drama workshops
Leaflet ideas • To go into leaflets
The three main points of young people’s play, ‘TheRelationships Show’, were:
Professionals not listening to people with learning disabilities or not taking them seriously.
Young people with learning disabilities having nowhere to go to meet their friends.
Not enough accessible information about relationships and sex.
Important points:
- Researcher made a long list of important points collected from all the video watching
- Gave it to team- Team reduced it down to a shorter list of points- Compared it to the important points that came from
the focus groups/ interviews/ questionnaire
When it was the same, this was seen as a really important point because it had come out in all parts of the research project.
Writing the report Producing leaflets
- in collaboration with the whole team and the young people
Saying goodbye to the young people
‘Analysing all the information took a long time. It was important to do it properly rather than guessing what people said or relying on what we could remember. What we have found out comes directly from the information we have collected from the young people, the parents, and the teachers. When we make recommendations, they are based on the things we have found out. They are not just our views.’ (Final Report, 2010)
Any questions?