Speaker: Karen D. Bopp, PhD (she, her, hers) Director of Provincial Outreach | Adjunct Professor Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA) UBC Department of Educational Counselling, Psychology and Special Education (ECPS)

Many employers would like to be inclusive in their hiring practices, but feel that they do not know what behaviours to expect from an autistic employee, and many ASD individuals want to work, but lack work experience, or have had unsuccessful employment experiences.

Dr. Karen Bopp is the Provincial Director of Outreach who is leading a BC Training Initiative at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA) at UBC: https://circa.educ.ubc.ca/the-circa-training-initiative/. The intent of this
initiative is to create interactive on-line training modules on autism and other neurodiversities to help improve inclusion and acceptance in the workplace. This training initiative is unique in that the goal is focused on providing training for employers/managers/ HR professionals to learn how to adjust their practices to better support accept and include autistic
individuals in the workplace. An essential component of these modules are the video interviews that highlight the first-hand employment experiences of autistic employees. For more information about this initiative please
contact Dr. Bopp directly at:  [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>