Help Wanted: Christy's mini-research project!

I am interested in extending some research that I conducted last semester in Sociolinguistics. In that project, I looked at learning disabilities as a socially constructed phenomenon and analyzed the “language of learning disabilities”. I then analyzed the transcripts of learning disabled students and identifying emerging themes as they described their experience of the phenomenon of being labeled “learning disabled”. For this project, I interested in exploring how being identified as “dyslexic” shapes, if at all , one’s experience of themselves as a reader. In thinking about this question, I was unsure if I would be employing a narrative or a phenomenological study; however, after our discussion, it seemed that a phenomenological study was the appropriate design. As a result, my plan is to interview a twenty five year old female who was identified as dyslexic in elementary school. Another question that emerged is: Do I need more participants? If I only have one participant, would this be more of a narrative? This is where I was wavering before and while I feel like it is more clearly phenomenological, I am getting stuck on the one participant. As I read more in Creswell about data collection he states that phenomenology typically collects data from “ individuals who have experienced the same phenomenon”. Also, I was thinking that perhaps, I could really develop my interview questions from the questions that I developed for the sociolinguistics assignment. Perhaps I should use some of the data from that assignment as well. While the questions and activity that I designed was “hypothetical” and I did not actually complete the activity, I can adapt that for use with my participant. I do have transcripts of students writing about their experiences of having the label “LD”. Maybe those should be used as data as well for my research. I wish that I had the capability/access to more participants. I do not think that my school would support this type of research at this time. Where I am struggling right now is that we did not discuss concepts that we felt emerged from my question. Maybe I am tackling too much here? HELP! As I am trying to create my concept map, I am struggling a bit and would love to hear your feedback.
Marica- I apologize for referring to the project that I completed last semester. I do not mean to be “cryptic”. I have the activity that I completed and can post later / bring to class if you would like to see. It is saved on my USB drive and I do not have that one me right now.
Thanks….Christy