What is it about?
This article discusses research carried out with persons with intellectual disability in Malta about friends and friendship.
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Why is it important?
Listening to what people with intellectual disability have to say about friendship can help professionals reflect on their own relationship with the people with intellectual disability. Do the latter see you as their friend? And how do you see your relationship with them? Are the feelings of friendship reciprocated?
Perspectives
Carrying out this research meant that I too had to think and reflect on the nature of the relationships I have with the people with intellectual disability I work closely with.
Anne-Marie Callus
University of Malta
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This page is a summary of: ‘Being friends means helping each other, making coffee for each other’: reciprocity in the friendships of people with intellectual disability, Disability & Society, December 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2016.1267610.
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