An Arts-Based Inquiry of Sibling Disability

This book examines texts and other artistic products rendered by siblings of individuals with disabilities in order to interrogate the impact of disability on the identity of non-disabled siblings.

Linnéa E. Franits (she/her) is Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy at Utica University, USA. Her scholarly interests include sibling disability, autoethnography, and arts-based research.

0.Introduction. Part I - How Sibling Disability Shows Up In Recent Art. 1.Themes found in art about sibling disability. 2.The impact of medium in text-based art about sibling disability. 3.The impact of medium in visually-based art about sibling disability. Part II - My Arts-Based Research Project. 4.An epistemology of disability. 5.Interdependence. 6.Attempts to unravel myths about productivity and disability. 7.Context and dimensions: Position in space and time as a sibling. 8.Siblinghood constructs identity. 9.Other Findings. 10.Situating and understanding positionality of my exploration of sibling disability.