A photograph of a tree-lined path with grass on either side. This is one of the many beautiful places to walk close to the university and the lake.

Day 3: Re•Storying and Remaking Worlds Through Policy and Politics

Agenda and Links to Presenter Slides, and Video of Keynotes and Panels.

Each session that is hybrid has a “Join Here” label with a hyperlink for you to join online. All sessions will be recorded.

Concurrent session 6A

Chernoff 213

9:30-11:00 am

Speaking Back – Intergenerational Relating as Praxis 

Gisele Camilo da Mata & Maria Cristina Silva dos Santos Feminism, Anti-ableism and Anti-racism: What Black Mothers have to say About Autism 

Elizabeth Brulé & Julien Brulé-Treffry Building Narratives of Resistance: A Mother and Son’s Story of Challenging Ableist Assessment Practices 

Mandy Klein I am now a 53-Year-Old Autistic Adult 

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Concurrent session 6B

Chernoff 117

9:30-11:00am

Reconceptualizing Academic Practice and Policy 

Sherri Liska and Nancy Marshall  Who’s “Challenging” Whom? Understanding Autistic Students’ Classroom Behaviours through Affirmation, Responsiveness, and a Lens of Strengths-Based Resilience 

Kate Donohue, Cambrey Oliver Payne, Cobi Calyx, Paula Redpath  Autism Strategy in South Australia 

Jace Tay Sze Hwee “You just aren’t working hard enough”: Colonial Legacies of Meritocratic Ableism in Singaporean Education.

Leroy Baker The Impact of Anti-Black Racism on Black Students’ Mental Health in Higher Education in Canada

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Dining Hall (pre-paid guests and presenters) or on your own

Moving Forward – Research, Policy and Practice Roundtable 

This session will be hosted a little differently than usual by offering participants the opportunity to form in-person and online mini-discussion groups around questions and topics of their choosing that still linger as we go forward after the symposium. Moderator Patty Douglas will help get the conversations started!

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Final Reflections on the learning of the symposium and going forward will be offered by Patty Douglas and the Steering Committee, including harvesting wish tree wishes, thanking presenters and creating the online resource hub and book.

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roundtable 3

Chernoff Auditorium

12:00-1:30

final reflections

Chernoff Auditorium

1:30-2:00

lunch

11-12pm

Thank you for coming! Safe travels until we meet again!

A photograph of a waterfront park in Kingston is above.