Abstract
Meaning is fundamental to experiences of home, yet little is known about the meanings of home for adults with developmental disabilities. In this instrumental case study, contrasting experiences of two adults with developmental disabilities living in Alberta are examined. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews dedicated to learning about configurations of support, challenges and successes in giving and receiving support, and future plans for support for each participant. Data were thematically analysed using theoretical concepts of existential insideness and outsideness. Our findings present one adult’s experience of being safe, enclosed and at ease as evidence of insideness, and the second adult’s experience of being threatened, exposed and stressed as evidence of outsideness. We discuss how meanings of home can be shaped by the nature of disability related behaviors and the corresponding responsiveness of caregivers and offer theory and policy implications of a relational interpretation of insideness and outsideness for adults with developmental disabilities.
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