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This presentation describes community engaged scholarship through Dr. Sean Cleary's course, PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective. In this unique course, designed in collaboration with local, autistic community members, GW students learn community participatory research methods while engaging with autistic young adults, their parents, researchers, clinicians and other service providers. The course covers the science, viewpoints, and experience of autism with a focus on young adults transitioning to adulthood. Working in partnership with community advocates, students explore research relevant to the autistic community.
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Hi Nita and Abraham, thank you for your presentation! It was great to see how detailed your research was and the variety of sources you were able to rely on. I also am excited that you were able to great a tangible resource from this work that will be useful for Autistic patients and their providers in the future.
Hi Jonah! Thanks for watching our presentation! I'm glad you enjoyed it. We hope on continuing to work the autistic and their families to hopefully make the pamphlet a reality.
This was great research and I am really hopeful that the pamphlet can reach a wide audience
Thank you, Amy! We already have plans to work with the non-speaking autistic young adults to have this pamphlet go beyond healthcare. Some individuals have mentioned that they want to distribute the pamphlet to teachers and other professionals that they interact with. Hopefully it'll help people to better understand them!
This was a great presentation! The resource you created to improve communication between patients and healthcare provides seems so helpful. Have you shared it with any organizations yet or have plans to?
Thank you! We are currently working with one other student in our class who is volunteering with City Center NOVA, which is an organization that works with adults with disabilities. The goal for this is to post the material of our project onto social media in hopes to reach more people. We also have plans to work closely with the non-speaking autistic adults who attended the class and develop more ways to distribute this pamphlet. It was suggested by two of the non-speakers that this pamphlet can be adapted to go beyond healthcare and help improve communication with multiple professionals that they interact with. It's definitely an exciting project that Abraham and I want and plan to continue beyond this class.
Great presentation. I appreciate the detailed information provided for everyone who interacts with non speaking autistics and families. Hope you get to continue working with the organizations.
Thank you! We definitely will continue working with the non-speaking adults with autism and determine what organizations can help distribute this information. We already have two that we are planning on working with very soon!
Great presentation very informative!
Thank you!!
Thanks for presenting, it's great to get to see some of the issues your class has discussed. I really appreciate that your project for this course has resulted in a way to share what you have learned to educate those in the field.
Excellent work. Hope we can share with a wider audience. Thank you!