Event: Public Online Lecture: Autism and Down Syndrome: between stigma and medicalisation
Date: 17 January 2023
Time: 17:00-20:00
Venue: Online event (via Zoom)
This Public Online Lecture is being organised by the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta.
Speaker: Dott. Alice Scavarda, Research Fellow, Department of Culture, Politics and Society, Università di Torino
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This Public Online Lecture is being organised by the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing at the University of Malta.
• Autism and Down Syndrome: are they the most different impairments within cognitive disabilities?
• Families’ strategies of stigma management: results of a research study
• Resistance to stigma between medicalisation and normalisation
• The focus on Autism: how to embrace and resist medicalisation
• The focus on Down Syndrome: the effects of the genetic fault?
This public online lecture is open to anyone with an interest in persons with intellectual disabilities and neurodiversity.