“It’s a symbolic violence”: Autistic people’s experiences of discrimination at universities in Australia
Diana Weiting Tan,
Marion Rabuka,
Tori Haar
et al.
Abstract:In recent years, the number of autistic people entering university has increased in Australia and worldwide. While an encouraging trend, autistic students’ completion rates remain much lower than non-autistic students in Australia. Perhaps unsurprisingly, numerous studies investigating autistic people’s experiences at universities have identified stigma and discrimination as a significant barrier facing autistic people in higher education. In the current study, our team of autistic co-researchers and non-autis… Show more
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