Social Work Practice in Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

by Kevin Stoddart (Editor), Anne Fudge Schormans (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides a range of perspectives, practices, and ideas relative to social work’s engagements with individuals living with autism, intellectual disability and developmental disabilities. Contributors in this peer-reviewed volume include social work practitioners, academic and community-based researchers, educators, activists, and self-advocates. Reflecting different ways of theorizing, speaking about, and working with people with autism, intellectual disability and developmental disabilities, it explores both tensions and possibilities for social work practice, research, education, advocacy and policy development that better meet their needs and desires for their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771126403
Publisher:	Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication date:	02/18/2025
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Kevin P. Stoddart is Founding Director of The Redpath Centre and Adjunct Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Since the early 1990s, his primary interest has been children, youth and adults diagnosed with autism/Asperger Syndrome and the co-existing social and mental health problems that affect them.

Ann Fudge Schormans is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McMaster University. Many years of social work practice working with people living with disabilities, combined with ongoing activist work, informs her teaching and research. Employing inclusive, co-researcher methodologies and knowledge production, along with arts-informed methods, her research focuses on issues identified by people with disabilities as being important to their lives.

Kevin P. Stoddart is Founding Director of The Redpath Centre and Adjunct Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Since the early 1990s, his primary interest has been children, youth and adults diagnosed with autism/Asperger Syndrome and the co-existing social and mental health problems that affect them.

Ann Fudge Schormans is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at McMaster University. Many years of social work practice working with people living with disabilities, combined with ongoing activist work, informs her teaching and research. Employing inclusive, co-researcher methodologies and knowledge production, along with arts-informed methods, her research focuses on issues identified by people with disabilities as being important to their lives.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


PREFACE


SECTION ONE: Introduction to Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Chapter 1: “Intellectual Disability”: What Self-advocates Labelled/with Intellectual Disability Want Social Work to Know by Ann Fudge Schormans, Sue Hutton, Marissa Blake, Antoinette Charleboix, Paul Cochrane, Shineeca McLeod and Marie Slark

Chapter 2: An Introduction to the Autism Spectrum across the Lifespan for Social Work by K.P. Stoddart, B. Muskat, & S.J. Southey


SECTION TWO: Theoretical and Historical Influences in Autism, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Chapter 3: Enough is enough! A critical disability interrogation of social work’s approaches to working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by K.M. David, M.S. Khan & Y. El-Lahib

Chapter 4: Human Rights Focused Social Work Practice for People Labelled with Intellectual Disabilities by S. Hutton & K. Joffe

Chapter 5: “I would like to be a parent”: Intimate Citizenship Rights for People with Intellectual Disabilities by A. Fudge Schormans, D. McCormick, J. Drassinower, P. Cochrane, P. Marese, S. McKhail, S. Rowley & T. Myerscough

Chapter 6: Social Work in Government: Through a Deinstitutionalization Lens by S. Conant

Chapter 7: Save your Tears for Another day: A Mother's story of Pre-natal Screening and Down Syndrome by J. Crowson


SECTION THREE: Practice Topics and Approaches in Autism Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Chapter 8: Social Workers Achieving Positive Outcomes Using Family Systems Interventions by J. D. Munro

Chapter 9: Mental Health in Autistic Adolescents and Adults by Kevin P. Stoddart

Chapter 10: The Mindful Social Worker: Cultivating a Conscious Practice with Autistic Individuals and their Families by K. Dillon & S. Moeser

Chapter 11: Addressing Barriers to Rewarding Work: Employment for People on the Autism Spectrum by T. Simkover

Chapter 12: Do ‘Evidence-Based Practices’ Translate to the Treatment of Mental Health Concerns in Individuals Labelled with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities? by J. Kennedy-Raimondo

Chapter 13: Autism, Mental Health, and the Law: Forging Social Work Practice in Forensic Settings by R. Morris