PO556: Thinking, Talking, Teaching: How Educators Facilitate Neurodiversity-Affirming Classrooms

  • PMD: 3,8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. evaluate the degree to which Canadian educators receive training in neurodiversity-affirming teaching practices;
  2. describe current trends in educators' neurodiversity-affirming attitudes and teaching practices; and
  3. explore possible links between formal training and educators' attitudes and teaching practices.

Description

The purpose of this poster is to inform participants about how the training primary school educators receive informs their understanding and use of neurodiversity-affirming teaching practices in the classroom.

Presenter(s)

Antonia K. Soldovieri, University of British Columbia
Laurie Ford, University of British Columbia

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