Accessibility in Educational Placement for Students with Disabilities (AcTinSite)

Published April 27 2022, 07:21

Project Name: Accessibility in Educational Placement for Students with Disabilities (AcTinSite)

The Accessibility in Educational Placement for Students with Disabilities (AcTinSite) project aims to work in collaboration with people involved with student placements, including Placement managers, Administrators, and Staff who work in Accessibility Services. To meet our aim, we will create a toolbox. Here stakeholders can find what is needed to support the inclusion of students with disabilities in placements. The expected stakeholders we plan to engage with are Students with disabilities (with or without an official diagnosis), Placement managers at the education and placement institution, and Staff in Student Accommodation Services.

Lab Collaborators: Schweertman, Corrie Smith, Hilda Godbout, Thalia Omeire, Divine Victor-Ogbondah, Zannie Saif, Shaheer Van Berkel, Ellie

Other Collaborators: Iris Epstein (School of Nursing, York University) Lindsay Stephens (Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto) Nastaran Dadashi (School of Design, George Brown College) Karen Swartz (Associate Director, Student Accessibility Services (SAS), York University)

Terms Active:

The website for the AcTinSite project is: https://actinsite.eecs.yorku.ca/

Project Outputs and Results:

Bulk, L. Y., Franks, A., Stephens, L., Smith, H., Baljko, M., Dadashi, N., & Epstein, I. (2023). Entanglements of Invisible Work of Clinical Educators in Healthcare Work Integrated Learning. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 1–18.

Stephens, L., Smith, H., Epstein, I., Baljko, M., Mcintosh, I., Dadashi, N., & Prakash, D. N. (2023). Accessibility and participatory design: time, power, and facilitation. CoDesign, Latest articles. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2023.2214145

Stephens, L., Narayani Prakash, D., Epstein, I., Baljko, M., Dadashi, N., Smith, H., & Darychuk, K. (2022). Micropolitics in Co-design: the impact of ablism and other ‘hidden’ power structures on equitable participation and outcomes. ACSP2022 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 62nd Annual Conference, 263–264. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.acsp.org/resource/resmgr/2022_conference/docs/22bkofacceptedabstracts_v1.pdf.

Smith, H., Epstein, I., Dadashi, N., Stephens, L., & Baljko, M. (2022, June 16). Anti-Oppression and Knowledge Mobilization [Catalyst Roundtable]. Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2022, June 13-17th 2022. https://whova.com/embedded/event/secondary/5zK45R3n1226dPYXWRxPjw9MrXb7XJX0JncDVWOkx7I%3D/?refer=undefined&day=3

Smith, H., Epstein, I., Power, C., Walsiyen, I. P., & Baljko, M. (2022, June 15). Preparing and Implementing KMb During a Research Project: Longterm KMb projects [Workshop]. Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2022, June 13-17th 2022. https://whova.com/embedded/event/secondary/5zK45R3n1226dPYXWRxPjw9MrXb7XJX0JncDVWOkx7I%3D/?refer=undefined&day=2

Epstein, I., Baljko, M., Magel, B., Stephens, L., Dadashi, N., Smith, H., & Bulk, L. Y. (2022). Document Landscape: Exploring What Shapes Disabled Students’ Experiences in Practice-Based Education. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 11(1), 53–90. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v11i1.851

Stephens, L., Narayani Prakash, D., Epstein, I., Baljko, M., Dadashi, N., Smith, H., McIntosh, I., & Kim, S. (2021). Accessibility and the Design Charette: Time, power and facilitation. ACSP2021 Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 61st Annual Conference, 424–425. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.acsp.org/resource/collection/1E387680-3D4A-4EFC-830E-97842B4C4A36/21bkofacceptedabstracts_v2.pdf.

Bulk, L. Y., Franks, A., Stephens, L., Dadashi, N., Baljko, M., & Epstein, I. (2021, October 6). Access in Placement Education as a Function of Unrecognized Labour. 2021 Centre for Health Education Scholarship (CHES) Celebration of Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.