What question is guiding your research? (what do you want to use your research to understand?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The question that I planned on guiding my research was disclosing invisible disabilities. Invisible disabilities are disabilities not immediately apparent to others. Although not apparent to others, due to their unrecognizable traits, invisible disabilities are ever present for the impacted individuals. Examples of invisible disabilities include ADHD, epilepsy, chronic pain, hearing impairment, cerebral palsy, and diabetes. This is just a small list of diagnoses that impact many individual\u2019s lives. These examples have a variety of symptoms that are worthwhile to study because having an invisible disability compels an individual to weigh the risks of sharing or concealing their diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My initial guiding research question was to only consider disclosing an invisible disability in an interview but as I\u2019ve started my research, I may include disclosing throughout a career as well. I\u2019ve found some interesting research on that as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 Why this question? (help us to understand how it connects to your career\/personal interests)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why? I have an invisible disability, so it is a personal interest of mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 How will your professional\/internship\/organizational\/course work inform your inquiry? (what connections can you see with the work that you\u2019re part of in the world beyond our course?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have personal connections in the world of disabilities. People often make assumptions about people living with disabilities, which can be isolating at times and negatively impact relationships. As a student with an IEP growing up and being paraded at times to the Special Education room, I often felt that stigma. Yes, one of \u201cthose\u201d students. An individual can feel shame for being laughed at for having a disability (Gray, Pakinson, & Dunbar, 2015). Therefore, to avoid this stigma, avoiding disclosing is self-protection. So, the professional question will always be\u2026do you disclose\u2026when do you disclose, and I suppose how do you disclose? This research I\u2019m doing may always be with me well into the world beyond this course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 What fields (academic and professional) matter most to your inquiry? (where are you going to be looking for source material?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will be looking into the fields of professional journals as well as individuals who work in the field of disability services. If at all possible, I\u2019d like to interview some employers although I\u2019m not sure if I\u2019d get an honest response or a politically correct one. I\u2019ll also try to find some first-hand accounts as well in my research which may present some valuable insights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gray, A. W., Parkinson, B., & Dunbar, R. I. (2015). Laughter\u2019s influence on the intimacy of self-disclosure. Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, 26<\/em>(1), 28-43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What question is guiding your research? (what do you want to use your research to understand?) The question that I planned on guiding my research was disclosing invisible disabilities. Invisible disabilities are disabilities not immediately apparent to others. Although not apparent to others, due to their unrecognizable traits, invisible disabilities are ever present for the … Continue reading “Research Plan-Ed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,66,67,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}