Presentations

Leaving Places: Autistic People's Perspectives on 'Elopement', at Canadian Association of Social Work Educators conference, York University, Toronto, Wednesday, May 31, 2023:
Initial findings from the survey were presented at the Canadian Association of Social Work Educators by project coordinator bridget livingstone, along with team members Andriy Hrabchuk and Meg Gibson; also authored by Nicole Corrado, Steacy Easton, and Bei Every. Please credit the listed authors when citing or using this work. Read more about Leaving Places: Autistic People's Perspectives on 'Elopement'
Absences and rearticulations: 2SLGBTQ+ families and care/work Tuesday, May 30, 2023:
Our team took part in a panel of presentations called "Care Is Not a Tally Sheet: Reflections on the Care/Work Portrait as a Method for Rethinking and Remaking the Field of Gendered Divisions of Labour" (Doucet, A., Klostermann, J., de Laat, K., Fisher, L., Foster, K., Gibson, M., livingstone, b., Cooper, J., Urquhart, B., & Kader, U.). Our presentation was created by M. Gibson, b. livingstone, J. Cooper, and B. Urquhart, and describes some of the methodological challenges we encountered as we piloted the Care/Work Portrait in online interviews with 2SLGBTQ+ parents and their partners --... Read more about Absences and rearticulations: 2SLGBTQ+ families and care/work
Presentation to the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals Oct 2022 conference, at online, Saturday, October 1, 2022:
Josh McGonegal, who completed his MSW placement with the Neurodiversity Matters project, led the creation of a research poster and a slideshow presentation about the implications of the study for service providers (co-authored by M. Gibson and b. livingstone). The slides and the poster are attached. A video presentation was shared at the online conference in October 2022.  Read more about Presentation to the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals Oct 2022 conference
Neurodiversity and Care Work, at Care and the Recovery Economy: A Roundtable hosted by the Institute for Gender and the Economy, University of Toronto (Jan 26-7, Feb 2-3, 2022), Wednesday, February 2, 2022:

This presentation contributed to conversations about the care economy and what research and policies we need in the pandemic/ recovery period. Some overall considerations of this brief talk focused on how to

i) complicate ideas of "care giver" and "care recipient",

ii) recognize the many forms of care work done by as well as with and for neurodiversity-identified/ neurodivergent people,

iii) identify systemic inadequacies as producing the need for care work such as advocacy and activism, and

iv) examine how restricted care policies (such as...

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