The article shows the origins of what Walmsley (2008) calls ‘inclusive research’. To understand what is meant by inclusive research, we need to go back to the epistemological discussions on quantitative and qualitative methodologies, which took place in the 90s, around the magazine Disability Society. On the basis of a summary of these discussions, focused on “intellectual and development disabilities”, two strategies for collaboration with this population are outlined: (a) an ethnographic (group work) approximation, and (b) a biographical (individual work) approximation. The following outlines a possible fieldwork design that seeks to overcome the ‘classic’ qualitative paradigm with the aim of including this group beyond the role of ‘research subjects’. To conclude the debate on the accessibility of research results to participants in such research, and thus the necessary innovation in the field of ‘returns’ of results, when it comes to including people who have limitations in understanding abstract oral or written language.