Price notes that troubles arose when there were differences in how participants self identified and the range of possible terms Price used, or when a participant's definition of a term was different than Price's definition.

Language and Interdependent Accessible Research Practices

Price notes that in the design of the survey, in particular survey questions and phrasing of questions, that there was an awareness that there were two different audiences with different needs that Price and other researchers needed to keep in mind - both the disabled individuals taking the survey and making sure they could express their thoughts and identity in a way that was authentic to them, and making sure the survey was designed in a way that it could produce meaningful results for an academic audience, including an academic audience that might not have field familiarity with Critical Disability Studies.

Audiences of the Disabled Academics Survey

Price highlights three areas where issues popped up which led to challenges in conducting interdependent accessible research:
1. Language
2. Access
3. Representation

An interdependent qualitative research paradigm embraces the idea of interdependence by foregrounding the fact that researchers need participants' involvement and care in creating a research methodology as much as participants need a researcher to take care when developing a research methodology.

Interdependence in an Interdependent Qualitative Research Paradigm

Having a range of data in different formats - video, audio, and text files - led to challenges and a need for transcripts to also include descriptions of gestures, notes accompanying sign-language interviews, and observations and notes on technical issues or interruptions that occurred during interviews. All transcripts were completed with coresearchers, research assistants, and interpreters. 

Challenges of Data Collection

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

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