The ‘Coping with Covid-19’ Newsletter: People with learning disabilities share their stories through collective narrative documents

Abstract

Easy read summary■We ran groups with people with learning disabilities during the Covid-19 Pandemic■The groups made a newsletter■The newsletter tells the stories about people with learning disabilities during lockdown■This article is about how we worked together to make the newsletterWe begin this article by reviewing some of the common discourses relating to people with learning disabilities across the Covid-19 pandemic. We then discuss some of the narratives that we have observed people with learning disabilities creating about themselves across the Covid-19 pandemic. We go onto discuss a project aimed at documenting some of these narratives. We reflect on the communication models and collective narrative practices used in the project as well as how these were adapted to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities. We conclude this article with reflections on the effects and outcomes of this project.