Examining and Providing Access to Health Care Services to Official Language Minority Anglophone Caregivers and Their Minimally Verbal Children with Autism

McGill University2020
Written By andrew Durand

For this proposal, I aim to; (1a) Examine access to English health services, in particular autism intervention and support services in Québec, as experienced by English-speaking (ES) caregivers and their minimally-verbal (MV) child with autism and (1b) Compare access to English autism health services between ES families residing in Québec versus the rest of Canada and (2) provide a free parent-coaching intervention aimed at increasing the child’s ability to communicate using non-spoken methods to ES caregivers and their MV child with autism. This proposal’s objectives 1 and 2 above will be completed within scope of my larger dissertation project that seeks to develop, test, and compare the effectiveness of a novel non spoken communication intervention for MV children with autism, delivered via telehealth, with that of a control intervention from the community. If effective, this model could broaden the options for service provision to this underserved group.

Outputs:

  • MacDonald. A. (February 2021). Potential Healthcare Access Barriers for English Speaking People with Autism in Québec [Virtual presentation]. Institute for Health and Social Policy’s Graduate Award Program

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