Hi, This is a zoom presentation. Please share with those who may be interested. Best, Nancy Nancy E Hansen, PhD, Professor, Director, Interdisciplinary Master's Program,Disability Studies Accessibility is not an optics issue or a choice it is a necessity If you say I have special needs ... then just say the word disabled. Euphemisms only fuel ableism. Disability is not a dirty word. Haben Girma 128 Education Building University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2 Email:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca<mailto:Nancy.Hansen@umanitoba.ca> Chapter 18: DisAppearing Disability: Disability MAiD Invisible, by Nancy Hansen https://canadianscholars.ca/book/disappearing/ ________________________________ From: The Disability-Research Discussion List <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Janice McLaughlin <janice.mclaughlin@NEWCASTLE.AC.UK> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 3:03 AM To: DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <DISABILITY-RESEARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: Online research seminar: Growing up with Down Syndrome in Norway: The Transition to Adulthood Caution: This message was sent from outside the University of Manitoba. Hi all As part of our ESRC project on Disabled Youth Transitions<https://disabilityandyouthtransitions.co.uk/> we are starting an occasional online seminar series. The first will be 1st of June, 1pm-2:30. Details below with a link at the bottom for registering for zoom details. All the best Janice Seminar Title: Growing up with Down Syndrome in Norway: The Transition to Adulthood Presenter: Kjersti Wessel Jevne, Inland University of Applied Sciences Abstract This PhD project involves 20 young adults with Down syndrome and their parents undertaken in Norway. The project is based on a longitudinal study which began when the children were five years old. Data for the project was conducted when the young adults were 21/22 years old and includes interviews with the parents and eight of the young adults themselves. The young adults with Down Syndrome are now in a period of their lives described as emerging adulthood, the age between 18-25. This period is considered as a transition to adulthood. This is common for all young people, but for people with disabilities this could be an extra challenge. Difficulties with transition-processes could cause isolation and exclusions for young adults with disabilities. The project explores how young adults with Down syndrome and their parents experience the transition to adulthood. The purpose is to gain knowledge about some of the following issues: Transition from school to work, the transition from moving out from parental home and how transition to adulthood could matter to having a good life and experiencing subjective well-being. Bio Kjersti is a lecturer and researcher at the Inland University of Applied Sciences in Lillehammer, Norway. She has an undergraduate degree as a kindergarten teacher and a postgraduate degree in Special Education. Her field of lecturing and research is in disability studies, especially disabilities in children and youth. She also lectures on the influence of the educational system on young people’s development and capabilities. Register here: https://shorturl.at/bjmDZ All the best Janice +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Due to care responsibilities I work varied hours, however, I don't expect immediate responses to emails/work requests sent outside 'normal' working hours. Professor Janice McLaughlin Professor of Sociology PI: ESRC Grant: Exploring the Inequalities and Diversities in Disabled Young Adult Transitions. Co-Investigators: Professor Tracy Shildrick (Newcastle University), Professor Nick Watson (Glasgow University), Dr Charlotte Pearson (Glasgow University), Dr Edmund Coleman-Fountain (Northumbria University), Research Associates: Amanda Bailey (Newcastle University), Dr Jane Cullingworth (Glasgow University), Dr Katie Salmon (Newcastle University) https://disabilityandyouthtransitions.co.uk/ Sociology Twitter: @nclsociology Personal Twitter: @jmcl1968 4.102 Henry Daysh Building University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU Tel: 0191 208 7511 Email: janice.mclaughlin@ncl.ac.uk ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research-request@jiscmail.ac.uk Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page.