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Chadsey-Rusch, Janis Page, Brenda Kay 2011-05-07T12:23:56Z 2011-05-07T12:23:56Z 10000-01-01 1995 This qualitative inquiry explores the process of the social construction of disability and the meanings assigned to the disability by a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy. Using the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the interpretative interactionism perspective, this dissertation describes the meaning of the problematic everyday life with interacting humans. The experience of the individual is connected to public responses to personal troubles. The vignettes answer the question of what it is like to be a parent of a young man leaving the public school system and entering the adult world. The quilt metaphor employed puts forth a new way to think about theory: When life gives you scraps, make quilts. This inquiry responds to the call to broaden the methodologies, the theories of human behavior, and the realm of experience into which research is conducted. The evocative power of telling a true story of lived experience is not to prove a point, but to offer people the opportunity to think about things in unrestricted and unpredicted ways. A conversation begins about the complexity of being human, of being a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy, and of being a diligent researcher. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:23:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9624455.pdf: 7732482 bytes, checksum: 027a9701813e11e725b3dbe06e9d2b15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:40:32Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:17:23-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9624455 (UMI)AAI9624455 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19950 eng Copyright 1995 Page, Brenda Kay Sociology, Theory and Methods Women's Studies Education, Special Sociology, Individual and Family Studies Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.