Stories That Speak Back: Participatory Dissemination Through Art After Brain Injury

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Acquired brain injury (ABI) may lead to negative functional outcomes even years post injury. Rehabilitation clinicians can help to remediate some of these deficits, however there is a gap in research translation to implementation. While there are many possible ways to address this, one way is to directly engage with individuals and communities. The current work describes our participatory-focused approach to previous research studies in collaboration with Hinds’ Feet Farm and the Unmasking Brain Injury (UBI) project. UBI is a community-based project that fosters agency, education, and social connection for people with ABI. We outline our methods and outputs of participatory dissemination, including creative products and shared platforms, which offers a mode for equitable, survivor-led knowledge generation for research and practice. This work contributes to participatory action research methodology by illustrating how longstanding community art practices can operate as infrastructures for mutual learning, rehabilitation knowledge, and community and scholarship facing products.

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