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Comparing Indigenous and Western Approaches to Autism

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dc.contributor.authorAnna Wilson MEd.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T11:31:01Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T11:31:01Z
dc.date.issued2015/02/06
dc.descriptionThis poster challenges the dominant narrative in Western society’s medical model that views autism as a ‘disease’ by defending the empowering Navajo view of autism as a ‘difference’ in Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRM). This envisions people with autism as a source of social capital instead of a social burden. The healing Indigenous people experience through community sharing can also help non-indigenous people with autism heal in their communities. The healing stories of people with autism provide a wealth of experience to the Library and Information Studies Field. The World Health Organization (WHO) values librarians’ inclusion of people with autism through developing informative autism web sites and sharing their valuable experiences through digital stories (Servili, & Saxena, 2013).  Librarians can challenge societies’ stereotypes of autism through promoting appropriate autism websites and critiquing inaccurate websites. This poster examines how five autism organization websites challenge the Western medical view of autism as a disease through alternative Indigenous methods of coping with autism. These refreshing stories of people with autism reveal how nourishing their strengths enables them to flourish creatively as authors of their own destiny.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3QN5ZF7M
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
dc.subjectIndians of North America--Attitudes
dc.subjectNavajo Indians with disabilities
dc.subjectIndigenous peoples--Attitudes
dc.subjectSociology of disability
dc.subjectCross-cultural studies
dc.subjectAutistic people--Public opinion
dc.titleComparing Indigenous and Western Approaches to Autism
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6670
ual.jupiterAccesshttp://terms.library.ualberta.ca/public

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