Researchers with an intellectual disability: Transforming research methods from the inside out

People with intellectual disabilities have begun to be involved in research in roles other than participant through research framed as "Inclusive Research″.This approach to researching "with" people with intellectual disabilities responds to the dictum of the self-advocacy movement, "nothing about us without us." The trajectory of Inclusive Research, like the emancipatory aims of research framed by the Social Model of Disability, is for people with intellectual disabilities to move from those who are researched, to being researchers themselves. In this role people with intellectual disabilities choose what research is done, how it is done, and with whom research partnerships are made. This chapter explores how inclusive research has transformed ideas about research, intellectual disability, and social inclusion.