Guiding Me, Guiding You: Deontic Dimensions of Guidance with Neurominorities (NEUROGUIDANCE)

Description of the granted funding

NEUROGUIDANCE investigates how decision-making power is negotiated in guidance interactions involving neurominorities, with a focus on autism and ADHD. The project examines real-life parental and employment guidance interactions between guidance practitioners and neurodivergent adults. NEUROGUIDANCE targets several significant research gaps: the limited understanding of decision-making power in parental and employment guidance and, overall, neurominority research. There is also a timely societal challenge of developing neurodiversity-informed guidance. Grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm and participatory and qualitative methods, NEUROGUIDANCE studies both the interactions captured in video recordings and the lived experiences of participants through video-stimulated interviews. Its goal is to advance understanding of decision-making power in guidance, reduce power asymmetries, and create inclusive, agency-enhancing, and neurodiversity-informed guidance practices.
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Starting year

2026

End year

2030

Granted funding

Katja Dindar Orcid -palvelun logo
699 339 €

Funder

Research Council of Finland

Funding instrument

Academy research fellows

Decision maker

Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities
11.06.2026

Other information

Funding decision number

378075

Research fields

Sosiaalipsykologia