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Funded Student Projects
Dialogue McGill funds students who research access to health and social services for English-speaking populations in Quebec. After a diligent internal review by Dialogue McGill’s research committee, the following student projects were selected for funding.
Examining and Providing Access to Health Care Services to Official Language Minority Anglophone Caregivers and Their Minimally Verbal Children with Autism
It all begins with an idea.
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