Presentations

SHORT FILM AND PODCAST: Storying Neurodiversity: Critical Reflections Through Field Education, at CASWE-ACFTS Conference 2021, Wednesday, June 2, 2021

 

  • Lead Presenter - Paula B Crockford, MSW Candidate, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
  • Co-Presenter - Sarah N. Leo, BA, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
  • Co-Presenter - Margaret F. Gibson, Assistant Professor - Social Development Studies and Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

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PAPER: Claiming neurodiversity: Autism, expertise, and resistance, at National Women's Studies Association Conference 2019, San Francisco, Saturday, November 16, 2019:

 

Authors:

  • Margaret F. Gibson, Renison University College at the University of Waterloo
  • Patty Douglas, Brandon University

What are we to make of neurodiversity discourse, both in its activist origins and its more recent expansions into the mainstream? Drawing upon blogs, research articles, and popular media, and engaging with critiques from feminist science and technology/disability studies, this paper considers how neurodiversity arguments for a re-valuation of autism and other forms of human variation...

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