“What’s Best for you?”: Using Cripistemologies as a Grounding for Participatory Research with Communities that are Non-Verbal

Richardson, Emma ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7409-778X, Wilson, Christian, Black, Helen and Foster, Rebecca (2026) “What’s Best for you?”: Using Cripistemologies as a Grounding for Participatory Research with Communities that are Non-Verbal. In: Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Methods for Researching Disability in Physical Education. Routledge, London, pp. 35-50. ISBN 978‑1‑032‑59101‑8 (hbk) 978‑1‑032‑59103‑2 (pbk) 978‑1‑003‑45294‑2 (ebk)

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Abstract

Participatory approaches are a welcome grounding for doing disability research in PE. Despite best intentions however, people that do not best communicate through traditional oral methods (e.g., some individuals with cerebral palsy, autism, D/deaf communities, verbal dyspraxia) are still excluded from research due to a reliance on ‘talk’ to recruit participants, gain informed consent and co-construct data. Embedding work in cripistemologies can dismantle ways of thinking and doing research using only oral methods and provide space to ‘crip’ research in such a way that research is informed by people that are non-verbal for people that are non-verbal. We propose two ways of engaging in cripistemologies, (1) acknowledging ableist baggage and (2) crip time. In this chapter we draw upon our experiences of living as someone that is non-verbal (Christian) and working with communities that are non-verbal (Emma, Rebecca and Helen) to show how we used these cripistemologies and provide ‘tips’ for researchers to ensure people that are non-verbal can also be included in participatory research.

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