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Children's rights
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Obtaining the views of people with learning difficulties – even those with severe or profound intellectual impairment – is becoming...imperative.

Felce, 2002

Carrying out research with children with SLD/PMLD/CLDD needs to move towards being participatory – 'research with' rather than 'research on' these young people (Lewis and Porter, 2007).

 

Article 12 of the United National Convention carries a commitment 'to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views, the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child, the views of the child being given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child'.