Follow the Yellow Brick Road! People with Learning Difficulties as Co‐researchers

This article is written by three people with learning difficulties. It is about our experience of doing research. We are all members of Hackney People First and in 1994 we got involved in a project researching self‐advocacy and families. The article describes why we decided to get involved, our feelings about doing research and what we did. It explains the help we had to take part. Researchers have been talking about disabled people doing research for quite some time, but involving people with learning difficulties as researchers is only just beginning. This article is extremely important, as one of the very few times that people with learning difficulties have written about carrying out research.