Bev Harp

Project Director

LEND faculty

Phone: (859) 338-1724

Email: baharp2@uky.edu

Responsibilities: ISAW: Create and deliver trainings for employers and support staff, OVR staff, Community Rehabilitation Providers and others. Serve as a consultant on autism/employment related issues. Assist job seekers as requested. Provides training to other interested parties on request. LEND: Faculty member. Provide students with information related to self-determination, models of disability, history of Disability Rights movements, and other self-advocacy related topics.

Experiences:

Reason: “Non-compliance is a social skill.” #realsocialskills

Research:

Interests: Disability rights, Disability Studies, Autistic rights movements, LGBT rights, Logic and thinking skills, Pattern recognition, Ethnography, Allyship, Supported Decision Making

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