A5029985566- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Behavioral and Psychological Studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Health, Medicine and Society
University of Toronto
2016-2024
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
2021
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
2016-2021
Christie (Canada)
2016
Ohio Department of Education
2015
The Ohio State University
2015
Introduction: Burnout, inertia, meltdown, and shutdown (BIMS) have been identified as important parts of some autistic people’s lives. This study builds on our previous work that offered early academic descriptions these phenomena, based the perspectives adults. Objectives: aimed to explore unique knowledge insights eight children youth extend refine earlier description burnout, i nertia, with additional exploration shutdown. We also how cope phenomena what others around them do make things...
Abstract Occupational therapists strive to be mindful, competent practitioners and continuously look for ways improve practice. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) has strong evidence of effectiveness in helping people with autism achieve goals, yet it does not seem implemented occupational therapy To better understand whether ABA could an evidence-based option expand practice, the authors conducted iterative, multiphase investigation relevant literature. Findings suggest that apply...
We sought to deepen understanding of embodied experiences autism by examining how autistic bloggers describe and discuss autism.Working within a qualitative description approach, we sampled 40 blogs written people who identify as autistic. conducted directed content analysis, applying codebook that was generated using themes from previous study, while remaining open additional theme generation elimination.The rich in the blog posts support our finding is highly experience including...
This study was conducted within a series aimed at building understanding of autism using insider perspectives. We applied descriptive qualitative approach, highlighting meanings that the informants attach to events in their lives. The data were generated by scraping blogs written autistic authors. an inductive thematic analysis iterative process coding, collating and reviewing themes. present themes two structures taken from dataset. first structure "current trajectories" illustrates with...
Purpose The Theory of Mind (ToM) deficit hypothesis is a dominant construct used to explain the social and communication difficulties observed in autistic individuals. This was based on an interpretation individuals' observable behavior, not insider accounts. Insider perspectives still remain mostly absent research ToM. We aimed gain understanding relevance applicability ToM by examining writings bloggers.Methods As part series studies perspectives, we descriptive qualitative approach...
Background: To date, research exploring experiences and perspectives of people who have severe autism are minimally verbal, has been sparse.Objectives: build new understanding based on insider verbal. We took interest in how these support, challenge, or augment current depictions academic literature.Method: Adopting a descriptive qualitative approach, three memoirs written by youths verbal were examined using inductive thematic analysis. Analytic methods followed recursive process coding,...
The term "weaponized autism" is frequently used on extremist platforms. To better understand this, we conducted a discourse analysis of posts Gab, an alt-right social media platform.We analyzed 711 spanning 2018-2019 and filtered for variations the autism".This mainly by non-autistic Gab users. It refers to exploitation perceived talents vulnerabilities "Weaponized autists", described as all-powerful masters-of-technology who are devoid skills.The simultaneously glorified derogatory. For...
Learning About Food in Urban Communities is a comprehensive guide with Extension resources for Production, & Business, Family, and Community. This publication emerged as part of 2-year community-planning project. An interdisciplinary OSU team worked the Weinland Park community, central Ohio University District, to explore how food could be catalyst urban neighborhood development.
Background: There have been sporadic and disturbing media accounts of autistic people engaging with extreme ideologies, comparatively little systematic exploration this suggested association.Existing research has failed to consider the contextual factors that could influence these rare occurrences engagement ideologies.This study explores how individuals involved in ideologies describe personal affecting their participation.Methods: Twelve from Canada United States who were either diagnosed...
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