Outdoor - Thesis

Climbing to communicate:
An investigation into the experiences of congenitally deafblind adults who have participated in outdoor education

A PhD Thesis by Dr. Joseph Gibson

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Copyright Statement
The copyright of the thesis belongs to the author under the terms of the United Kingdom Copyright Acts as qualified by the University of Strathclyde Regulation 3.51. Due acknowledgement must always be made of the use of any material contained in, or derived from, this thesis.

The full reference for the thesis is:

Gibson, J. (2005). Climbing to communicate: An investigation into the experiences of congenitally deafblind adults who have participated in outdoor education. Unpublished PhD Thesis. University of Strathclyde.

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• Title Page
• Preface (Abstract, Acknowledgements, Table of contents and List of figures)
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• Chapter 3 Methods
• Chapter 4 Results - Stories
• Chapter 5 Results - Themes
• Chapter 6 Discussion & Conclusions
• References
• Appendix A Bill's art data list
• Appendix B Research time line
• Appendix C Proposal for Access - (Sense Scotland)
• Appendix D Research Proposal - (The University of Strathclyde Ethics Advisory Committee)
• Appendix E Plan of the Glasgow Climbing Centre
• Appendix F Old Brook climbing wall data list
• Appendix G Climbing wall report sheet
• Appendix H Rock House climbing wall data list
• Appendix I Conversation session data list
• Appendix J Old Brook video data list
• Appendix K Bill's art work
• Appendix L Deafblind climbers e-mails
• Appendix M Comparison of video and written data
• Appendix N Plan showing where Bill's climbing wall art was produced
• Appendix O Transcription of meeting with Patricia McGowan
• Appendix P Copy of McGlown (n.d.) newspaper article