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Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Conversation with Dr. Ariel Schwartz
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Ariel Schwartz at Boston University. She tells us about her early engagement with the disability community. She discusses the importance of meaningful inclusion of people with disabilities in research, beyond the tokenism frequently present in academic research. Ariel discusses participatory action research and how she has implemented it in work with peer-mentoring, developing relationships with self-advocates and giving them space to actively steer research. We will be interviewing some of the self-advocates that work with Ariel in the coming months, so we can hear directly from them and their experiences in this process.
Guest bio:
Ariel Schwartz, PhD, OTR/L is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. She has worked with young adults with IDD for over 15 years. Ariel’s research is focused on figuring out how to best include people with IDD in the research process. Including young adults is called “inclusive research.” Ariel wants to learn the best way to do inclusive research, because she believes that people with IDD have a lot of knowledge and experience that can help make research more useful to people with disabilities. Ariel also studies peer mentoring and employment for young adults with IDD-MH.
Links:
Our website: www.mhddcenter.org
Participatory action research (PAR)
Website for PAR team:
Inclusive research information from Australia: https://www.cadr.org.au/images/1759/inclmainrapidreview.pdf
*Music Credit: Music for our podcast is licensed from Marmoset Music. Artist: Johnny Clay; Song "Looking Down the Road"
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