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Beyond The Door: Disability And The Sibling Experience, Morgan Violeta Sanchez Taylor
Beyond The Door: Disability And The Sibling Experience, Morgan Violeta Sanchez Taylor
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis explores the experiences of adult siblings of individuals with impairments. It expands on the existing literature by exploring the complexity of the sibling experience of disability while moving beyond the concepts of burden and maladjustment that have characterized much of the previous literature. In addition, it expands upon and extends to the sibling experience an emerging view of disability by examining the ways in which themes identified in sibling narratives cross lines between the Medical and Social Models of Disability. Building on work by Mark Priestly and Tom Shakespeare, I call this emerging view the Interactional Model of …