The Cultural Model of Disability and Empowering Practice Frameworks
with Bryden Carlson-Giving
03/20/2024
Our practice frameworks are supposed to guide our work…but what happens when their authors of our practice framework haven’t analyzed their biases? In this episode, we discuss how ableism is built into the practice framework of occupational therapists, and what it looks like to do something totally different. Today’s guest, Dr. Bryden Carlson-Giving, wrote the first neurodiversity-affirming practice framework for OTs – and there’s something to learn from it no matter what field you work in. In this conversation we also dive into the cultural model of disability, the limitations of evidence-based practice, and so much more. Dr. Bryden Carlson-Giving is a queer, neurodivergent, and disabled occupational therapy practitioner who developed The EMPOWER Model.
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Show Notes
- Check out the LPT Education Hub
- Learn more from/about Bryden through:
- Neurodivergent Nexus (website); @BrydenCarslon_Giving (on Instagram)
- The Empowering Neurodivergent Occupational Participation and Well-being (EMPOWER) Model
- Doctoral thesis about neurodiversity-affirming approaches that embrace neurodivergent occupations, empower disabled voices, and challenge ableism within Occupational Therapy
- Introductory Manual to Embracing Neurodivergent Occupations Program
- Resources referenced:
- Concepts/research referenced:
- Occupation, injustice, and anti-Black racism in the United States of America by Khalilah Johnson and Dr. Ryan Lavalley
- Cultural locations of disability by David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder (2005)
- Redefining evidence-based practices: Expanding our view of evidence. By Kayla Tawa (2020).
- Community-defined evidence project (CDEP): Preliminary quantitative and qualitative findings by the National Latino Behavioral Health Association & National Network to Eliminate Disparities. (2009).
- Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders by Kristie Patten & Scott Tomchek (2016)
- Lived experience informed practice: An alternative to evidence-based practice. By Sonny Jane Wise (2023), Lived Experience Educator
- Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time by Ellen Samuels (2017)
- Selected podcast episodes with Autistic researchers:
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