ABSTRACT
'Adult children
of parents with learning difficulties: stereotypical outcomes
and the reporting of narrative research'
Tim Booth
Narrative Inquiry,
9(1), 1999, pp. 123-137
This paper reports
on a study of now-adult children who grew up in families headed
by a parent or parents with learning difficulties. The study
set out to use narrative techniques to capture something of their
experience through the stories they told about their past and
present lives. Narrative researchers invariably find themselves
trapped between the richness of their material and the space
for writing it up. This paper addresses this conundrum by arguing
for the use of composite stories or stereotypes as a methodological
device for trying to convey lives 'in the round' through the
synthesising function of emplotment.
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