Re•Storying Autism in Education: Advancing the Cultures and Practices of Inclusion
| Funding Agency: | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant |
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| Principal Investigator: | Patty Douglas |
| Project URL: | https://restoryingautism.com/ |
Re•Storying Autism in Education: Advancing the Cultures and Practices of Inclusion” uses multimedia storytelling to expand knowledge about autistic students’ experiences in public schools. We are cultivating new creative and scholarly outputs with significant policy and practice implications through research activities that pursue a central claim: meaningful inclusion requires the fulsome engagement of autistic perspectives to rethink normalcy and reorient to autism not as a problem to be solved, but as human variation. Filling a gap in educational research, this innovative, multi-site project (Ontario, Manitoba, and the UK) provides research opportunities for autistic individuals to artistically self-represent and author their views about inclusion.
