To work or not to work? The occupational trajectories of wheelchair users

Disability and Rehabilitation
I Ville, Myriam Winance

Abstract

To throw light upon the dynamic processes which may or may not lead persons with severe motor disability to employment. A qualitative approach to the chronology of both the professional and non-professional occupations of wheelchair users between acquisition of the disability and the interview; this approach focuses upon actions and meanings, thus allowing the authors to identify the diverse factors which help build the occupation situation at the time of the study. The narratives of 36 wheelchair users of working age were used. The objective of the analysis was to reconstitute the occupation trajectories of the participants and hence to suggest a typology. This involved pinpointing the various actors, the external and cognitive contexts of their decisions and actions, and their consequences and related feelings. The wide diversity found in the trajectories forced the authors to go beyond any simple notion of 'work versus non-work' and to focus on the quality of the individual's process of occupation appropriation. Indeed, it is possible to successfully appropriate both work and non-work situations, just as, inversely, it is possible for a person to fail to appropriate either type of situation. Analysis of this process allows o...Continue Reading

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