“Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?”: Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders
“Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?”: Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders
Technologies play vital roles in the learning and participation of autistic people and yet have mostly been conceptualised according to a medical model of disability. In this stakeholder review, the comments of 240 participants from a two-year seminar series focusing on autism and technology were analysed to co-construct an understanding of how research could develop more inclusively. Our socio-cultural analysis shows that stakeholders were very positive about the roles that technologies can play in many areas of life, but that these technologies need to be developed and evaluated according to the needs and preferences of autistic people and their families. We propose an inclusive common social framework for research based on the core themes of social inclusion, perspectives, and participation and agency. Such a framework requires the field to recognise that some current practices are exclusionary and that a commitment to action is needed in order to make positive changes.
Autism, Technology, co-construction, participatory research, stakeholders
201-234
Parsons, Sarah
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Yuill, Nicola
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Good, Judith
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Brosnan, Mark
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7 February 2020
Parsons, Sarah
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Yuill, Nicola
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Good, Judith
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Brosnan, Mark
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Parsons, Sarah, Yuill, Nicola, Good, Judith and Brosnan, Mark
(2020)
“Whose agenda? Who knows best? Whose voice?”: Co-creating a technology research roadmap with autism stakeholders.
Disability & Society, 35 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/09687599.2019.1624152).
Abstract
Technologies play vital roles in the learning and participation of autistic people and yet have mostly been conceptualised according to a medical model of disability. In this stakeholder review, the comments of 240 participants from a two-year seminar series focusing on autism and technology were analysed to co-construct an understanding of how research could develop more inclusively. Our socio-cultural analysis shows that stakeholders were very positive about the roles that technologies can play in many areas of life, but that these technologies need to be developed and evaluated according to the needs and preferences of autistic people and their families. We propose an inclusive common social framework for research based on the core themes of social inclusion, perspectives, and participation and agency. Such a framework requires the field to recognise that some current practices are exclusionary and that a commitment to action is needed in order to make positive changes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 June 2019
Published date: 7 February 2020
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The seminar series ?Innovative Technologies for Autism: Critical Reflections on Digital Bubbles? was a collaboration between the Universities of Southampton, Sussex, and Bath in the United Kingdom. The authors would like to thank everyone who took part in the seminar series as well as those who provided invaluable support behind the scenes. The data upon which this article is based are available from the first author. The seminar series was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council [ES/M002624/1].
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Autism, Technology, co-construction, participatory research, stakeholders
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