Recruitment: The Youth Mobility Project
Tell your story - Difference & Movement: The Youth Mobility Project
How do you move? A multimedia exploration of disabled youth’s daily lives, activities, and movements
Do you enjoy taking photos/videos? Want to share your story about the ways you move through the world? Contribute to disability advocacy? Consider joining our study!
Our study will re-imagine disability by partnering with young people to re-imagine disability and differences as potentials rather than deficits.
What is this study about?
In this research we are partnering with disabled youth to create multimedia stories of daily life, activities, and movement. We will do this by exploring together how youths’ stories celebrate disabled lives and contribute to positive social change. Together we will explore new ways of thinking about disability, activity, and mobility to inform changes in design, education, and health care.
What’s involved?
Share your stories! We will work with you to identify how you want to share your experiences. Take pictures or videos showing how you navigate daily life in your home or other spaces. Create a one-minute podcast, draw a picture, tell a story. It’s up to you!
Participate in one individual and one group interview to talk about your stories and share your pictures/videos
Share your story and images in a virtual gallery
Who can participate?
Youth aged 16 to 26 years.
Youth who identify as disabled and who use (one or more) diverse mobility methods (e.g. walking, wheeling, crawling, riding, driving).
For more information about the study and/or to sign up, please contact Bhavnita Mistry at bhavnita.mistry@utoronto.ca
Principal Investigator: Barbara Gibson, University of Toronto. REB # 40403