Disability leisure: in what kind of activities, and when and how do youths with intellectual disabilities participate?
Engelsk titel: Disability leisure: in what kind of activities, and when and how do youths with intellectual disabilities participate?
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Författare:
Melnöe, Line
;
Ytterhus, Borgunn
Email: line.melboe@uit.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 44
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17060079
Sammanfattning
The article examines what kind of activities youths with intellectual
disabilities participate in during their leisure time, and when and how
they participate. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews of 10
youths with intellectual disabilities (aged 13–16) and their parents (N =
20). The study reveals that intellectually disabled youths have the same
preferences and wishes for leisure activities as their non-disabled peers.
Both genders prefer sports and cultural activities. However, a closer
examination reveals marginalization of intellectually disabled youths
from leisure activities organized for young people in general. In our
society, the understanding that leisure activities are a private concern is
based on the idea of the ‘normate’. The ‘normate’ emerges when we
explore the social processes of participation that constitute otherness
and systematically marginalize groups of people, here intellectually
disabled youths, from organized leisure activities.