Interview Techniques for Children with Disabilities

Abstract

The goal of the present study was to examine interview techniques that can be used with young children with disabilities. Four children aged three to five were recruited at a family resource center affiliated with a university in Toronto and were interviewed twice at their childcare centers. Multiple methods were used in the interviews to examine techniques that worked well with the children. The types and purposes of interview questions were analyzed, and the themes emerged from the interactions between the interviewers and the children were discussed. Overall, this study provides insights to the research methodologies that can be used to investigate the perspectives of young children with disabilities and underscores the importance of listening to this population through multiple ways.

The Potential of Open Science for Research Visibility in the Global South: Rwandan Librarians’ Perspectives

“…One perspective on the relative invisibility of African research is to locate the problem firmly within the scholarly communication system as currently constituted (Chan & Gray, 2013). This system is dominated by a number of powerful commercial publishers based primarily in the USA and UK, and publishing in English (Chan, 2018). Run on for-profit grounds, the journals they publish are relatively expensive to license, especially for resource-constrained contexts and the costs have historically spiralled upwards (Milne, 1999).…”