*Day 1 Welcome and Keynote - "We can do much more than people think": The Power of Storytelling to Foster Agency and Advocacy
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Opening remarks and welcome by Andrew Houtenville, PhD, Director of UNH Institute on Disability and NCSS leadership
Opening Keynote presented by Jacy Bell Farkas, MA, PhD, Director, University of Arizona Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how storytelling can be an effective tool to nurture self-expression, foster self-knowledge, and drive self-determination.
- Identify strategies to support people with IDD and mental health needs to tell their own stories.
- Identify three actions to promote the use of storytelling to drive meaningful change.
Session Description:
Stories can shape our perspective of the world. They help us understand our place in the world, and better understand the experience of others. This session will explore how storytelling allows people with disabilities to name, own, and share the reality of their lived experiences, and thereby creating avenues for increased self-knowledge and self-determination. Their stories offer opportunities to reframe perceptions about disability and drive meaningful change in our communities.
References:
De Jager, A., Fogarty, A., Tewson, A., Lenette, C., & Boydell, K. M. (2017). Digital storytelling in research: A systematic review. The Qualitative Report, 22(10), 2548-2582.
Rice, C., & Mündel, I. (2018). Story‐making as methodology: Disrupting dominant stories through multimedia storytelling. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 55(2), 211-231.
Trevisan, F. (2017). Crowd-sourced advocacy: Promoting disability rights through online storytelling. Public relations inquiry, 6(2), 191-208.
Andrew Houtenville, PhD
Director
Institute on Disability, CMDR Research Director
Dr. Andrew Houtenville is a Professor of Economics and Research Director at the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. He is extensively involved in disability statistics and employment policy research. He has been published widely in the areas of disability statistics and the economic status of people with disabilities. Dr. Houtenville received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and was a National Institute on Aging Post-Doctoral Fellow at Syracuse University in 1998/1999. He was also a Senior Research Associate at Cornell University and New Editions Consulting in McLean, Virginia.
Jacy Bell Farkas, MA, PhD
Director
University of Arizona Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities
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