This workshop will explore how to recognize your specific workplace tasks and how you complete them. We will also include a focus on some remote and in-person work habits. Presenters will provide some personal accessible hacks that have been compiled from various professional development workshops and why it is important to be metacognitive in your own workflow. This session will allow the opportunity for participants to share and learn their own workplace hacks with one another. This session will be facilitated by Amanda Blais, Senior Disabilities Learning Support Coordinator and Jessie Gunnell, READ Projects Officer and is part of the Accessibility & Wellness Series.

Presentation Outline:

1. Tasks & Software
2. Some hacks we use
3. Work-share in breakout groups

杏吧原创 the Accessibility & Wellness Series

The intended outcomes of the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series are to:

• Increase awareness within members of the 杏吧原创 community about accessibility issues and how they relate and contribute to wellness of individuals and the community as a whole;
• Encourage awareness into action approach through the provision of concrete strategies, resources and connections for participants;
• Highlight the connection between accessibility and accessible practices and the wellness of individuals;
• Increase the conversations about accessibility.

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Assistive technology exists to help people minimize the impact of barriers they encounter in their daily lives. The last 21 months alone have shown us how making things less difficult for ourselves can have a positive impact on our personal wellness. Jason and Jordyn (Assistive Technologists from the Paul Menton Centre) will chat about some common assistive technologies that can be used with your personal strategies to make things a little easier for you or even someone you know.

杏吧原创 the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series

The intended outcomes of the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series are to:

• Increase awareness within members of the 杏吧原创 community about accessibility issues and how they relate and contribute to wellness of individuals and the community as a whole;
• Encourage awareness into action approach through the provision of concrete strategies, resources and connections for participants;
• Highlight the connection between accessibility and accessible practices and the wellness of individuals;
• Increase the conversations about accessibility.

Find out more here!

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This session is presented by Dr. Paul Peters of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Department of Health Sciences, as part of the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series.

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is now one of the most diagnosed neurological conditions in children and can have significant impacts on individuals throughout their lives. Symptoms were once thought to reduce with maturity, however it鈥檚 now recognised that symptoms persist throughout the lifecourse. This has resulted in many people not being diagnosed until later in life, and I am one of those people.

In early 2019 my partner was looking into explanations for some of the difficulties my son (now 11) was facing in school and completed a parent-report ADHD questionnaire, but it wasn鈥檛 just my son that scored high. I was at work when she texted and asked me to complete the adult questionnaire for myself 鈥� it was life-changing. I was diagnosed by a psychologist in 2019 and have been receiving ADHD-specific psychotherapy and taking stimulant medication for the last 2 years. I have embarked on a process of self-discovery, recognising that many of the challenges I鈥檝e faced in my personal and professional life are related to this specific neurological impairment. In this talk I will talk about some of these challenges, how I鈥檝e adapted and 鈥榤asked鈥� in the past, and what workplace supports have helped now that I have a diagnosis.

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杏吧原创 the Speaker

Dr. Paul Peters (PhD, U. Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences. My research is on the spatial and statistical patterns of mortality, the environmental impacts on health, and health in small rural places within a context of structural inequities and social inequalities. I am the Principal Investigator of the Spatial Determinants of Health Lab, which is currently supporting 9 PhD, 6 MSc, and 5 BSc students from across the university. I have consciously chosen to be open about my ADHD diagnosis with colleagues and students and I seek to provide mentorship to students from diverse backgrounds and to place value on personal growth and learning.

Other ADHD Resources

杏吧原创 the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series

The intended outcomes of the Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series are to:

• Increase awareness within members of the 杏吧原创 community about accessibility issues and how they relate and contribute to wellness of individuals and the community as a whole;
• Encourage awareness into action approach through the provision of concrete strategies, resources and connections for participants;
• Highlight the connection between accessibility and accessible practices and the wellness of individuals;
• Increase the conversations about accessibility.

Find out more here!

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The COVID-19 pandemic related isolation measures have caused rapid changes in academic instructional delivery and social interactions. Similar changes and measures are known to have a long-lasting impact on the general population, with autistic individuals sometimes experiencing even greater difficulties than their nonautistic peers. Autistic individuals are now facing an unprecedented change in their daily routines. Given a growing enrollment of autistic students in universities worldwide, there is a need to develop an understanding of the effects of the COVID-19 related a) rapid changes in the mode of academic instruction delivery and b) unexpected isolation measures on this student population. By drawing on interviews with and a survey of autistic university students in Canada, this study has direct implications for the mitigation of academic and social challenges the autistic student population experiences, and, ultimately, for the retention of autistic students under rapidly changing conditions.

This session is part of the 杏吧原创 University Accessibility & Wellness Speaker Series.

杏吧原创 the Speakers

Jacquie Ballantine: Jacquie is a PhD Candidate in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at 杏吧原创 University. After almost 40 years of experience working as a speech-language clinician in Africa and Canada, during which she also spent 10 years of lecturing here in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies (SLALS), she decided to enroll in a graduate degree in applied linguistics. She had already qualified as a TESL instructor and taught at several universities and colleges overseas and so after her first year in the MA (ALDS) program she concentrated her research interests at the intersection of her former and present lives. She did this by incorporating her first academic passions, neurolinguistics and communication disabilities and differences, and now her second passions, rhetoric and genre studies. After receiving the MA (ALDS) in 2017, she continued in the department, and she is now a PhD Candidate using participatory research to explore the reported experiences of autistic university students regarding socializing, learning and academic writing on university campuses. The amazing professors and excellent programs in SLALS have led to many interesting opportunities including collaboration with other participatory researchers in Australia. After a full and deeply gratifying career as a clinician, she looks forward each day to bringing together her clinical experiences and her newfound academic and research interests.

Jasmin Macarios: Jasmin is a master鈥檚 student at the University of Ottawa in anthropology. Her research interests are in the fields of applied linguistics and environmental durability. She graduated during the pandemic with a B.Soc.Sc. in International Relations and Modern Languages with a Minor in Environmental Studies. She has studied ten different languages and has been to every continent except Antarctica. In her free time she enjoys reading fantasy and scifi novels and writing short stories.

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