Coping with Loss During COVID-19 and 2020 Societal Conflicts


Wednesday, October 21, 2020
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Central Time Zone

Description

Researcher and autistic self-advocate T.J. Gordon uses personal experience and research to talk about how people with autism are dealing with sadness, anxiety, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths in 2020, and societal conflicts. You will also learn about ways you can help people with autism cope with the pain due to 2020 events. .

Notes: Presenter will use "autistic person", "person on the autism spectrum", and "person with autism" interchangeably. Content Warning: Mentions of violence, depression, suicide, and death.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identifying various means people with autism could deal with loss and sadness during COVID-19 pandemic and other social issues in 2020
  2. Learning to understand and address an autistic person's loss
  3. Learning ways to help people with autism cope with loss and sadness (including #StayAndPlay initiative by The Alliance)

Speakers:

Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr, Research Assistant, Institute of Disability and Human Development, UIC