ABSTRACT
'The use of depth
interviewing with vulnerable subjects: lessons from a research
study of parents with learning difficulties'
Tim Booth and
Wendy Booth
Social Science and Medicine,
39(3), 1994, pp. 415-424
This paper explores
the practicalities of using the technique of depth interviewing
with people who have learning difficulties. The authors set out
to provide other researchers with guidance in the use of the
life story approach and to demonstrate its utility with this
vulnerable and devalued group of informants. They conclude that
depth interviewing can provide new knowledge not accessible through
other methods of data collection, and offers a way of giving
people with learning difficulties a voice in the making of their
own history.
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