Putting down verbal and cognitive weaponry: the need for ‘experimental-relational spaces of encounter’ between people with and without severe intellectual disabilities

Social inclusion policies often assume that community integration is beneficial for all people with disabilities. Little is known about what actually happens in encounters between people with and without severe intellectual disabilities in the public space. Based on social-constructionist and responsive-phenomenological insights, we performed participant observation, semi-structured interviews and researcher reflexivity to study encounters...