Peer-led self-advocacy for people with intellectual disability through the lens of "freedom through encounter".

Background: A peer-led self-advocacy group, Our Voice SA, is used as a case study to explore how the social engagement of people with intellectual disability contributed to their self-advocacy about things that are important to them.

Method: Secondary analyses of data (interviews, observations and program data) were thematically analysed using Clifford Simplican's analytical lens of "freedom through encounter".

Results: Social engagement encounters in peer-led self-advocacy led to individual and group agency for freedom.