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

Identified topics

psychology