Tag: independent living

Episode 42. “How do we break down the barriers?” Anne Borden King, interviewed by Sean Pickard on Voices for Abilities

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While the podcast is on a brief hiatus as I finish my book (yay!), I’m sharing this interview that Shawn Pickard hosted with me for Voices for Abilities radio. We discussed how Canadian autism policy needs to move from a charity perspective to a rights perspective and how the inclusion and neurodiversity movements are working for the changes that autistic people & families need.

Listen to the podcast by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like Spotify, Stitcher or ApplePodcasts.

 

Bio
Anne Borden King is a Toronto-based podcaster, writer and human rights advocate. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Healthy Debate, FactKeepers and Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, among other publications. She is the host of Noncompliant, a popular podcast about neurodiversity. A co-founder of Autistics for Autistics, the Canadian autistic self-advocacy organization, she has presented before the United Nations and the Canadian Senate among others, on autism policy.

Her upcoming book, The Children Do Not Consent: The search for autism’s “cure”—and the kids who pay the cost will be published in 2023.

 

 

 

 

Episode 40. Keenan Wellar from LiveWorkPlay: Transforming Canada’s housing & programs for intellectually disabled Canadians

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Portrait photo of a woman and man standing together, smiling, against a white wall with the shadows of a tropical plant projected on the wall. The woman has short, light brown hair and a black boatneck shirt with a patch of burgundy on it. The man has salt-and-pepper hair, cut short and is wearing a dress shirt with a small blue and white check pattern.
Julie Kingstone & Keenan Wellar, co-leaders of LiveWorkPlay

I had the honour of speaking with Keenan Wellar, founder of LiveWorkPlay about the organization’s work helping the community welcome and include people with intellectual disabilities, autistic persons, and those with a dual diagnosis in housing, work and leisure.  LiveWorkPlay is a model for the paradigm shift that is needed in developmental services!

Listen to the podcast by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like Spotify, Stitcher or ApplePodcasts.


Transcript: Transcript_KeenanWellar_NCP_Podcast

Bio
Keenan Wellar has served as Co-Leader and Director of Communications for charitable organization LiveWorkPlay since 1997. LiveWorkPlay helps the community welcome and include people with intellectual disabilities and autistic persons to live, work, and play as valued citizens. The organization has earned numerous accolades, including Ottawa Board of Trade’s Best Non-Profit of 2019. Keenan serves as LiveWorkPlay event host as well as media spokesperson. He currently appears monthly on the Weekly Roundup show on 580 CFRA talk radio .