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Research
Latest papers
A double disadvantage? Immigrant and disability status as predictors of community belonging in Canada.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026 · first author
Belonging involves mutuality, agency, and acceptance: An ethnographic exploration of belonging with adults labelled with intellectual disability.
Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID · 2025
'We're Not Really Into Helping, We're Into Being Useful': Service Provider Practices That Support Belonging Opportunities in the Lives of Adults Labelled With Intellectual Disabilities.
Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025
Latest funding
- $33,868
Developing socio-political practices in occupational therapy
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $68,695
Equitable access to inclusive early learning and childcare for disabled children: The family experience
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $84,596
From stories to praxis: Transforming community-based support services for women with disabilities who have survived intimate partner violence
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
24 publications.
A double disadvantage? Immigrant and disability status as predictors of community belonging in Canada.
McConnell D, Kazi M
Belonging involves mutuality, agency, and acceptance: An ethnographic exploration of belonging with adults labelled with intellectual disability.
Reeves P, McConnell D, Phelan SK
'We're Not Really Into Helping, We're Into Being Useful': Service Provider Practices That Support Belonging Opportunities in the Lives of Adults Labelled With Intellectual Disabilities.
Reeves P, McConnell D, Phelan SK
The (radical) role of belonging in shifting and expanding understandings of social inclusion for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Reeves P, McConnell D, Phelan SK
Improving services for parents with intellectual disability and their families: Views of Canadian social service workers.
Pacheco L, Aunos M, Feldman M, McConnell D
Intimate partner violence against women with intellectual disability: A relational framework for inclusive, trauma-informed social services.
McConnell D, Phelan SK
Reasonable Efforts? Child Maltreatment Investigations and Service Referrals of Parents With Ascribed Cognitive Impairments in Canada.
Pacheco L, Aunos M, Feldman M, McConnell D
Childhood experience, family support and parenting by people with intellectual disability.
McConnell D, More R, Pacheco L, Aunos M, Hahn L, Feldman M
The devolution of eugenic practices: Sexual and reproductive health and oppression of people with intellectual disability.
McConnell D, Phelan S
Child Maltreatment Investigations in Canada: Main and Moderating Effects of Primary Caregiver Cognitive Impairment.
McConnell D, Aunos M, Pacheco L, Feldman M
Developing socio-political practices in occupational therapy
Principal investigators: Barlott, Timothy
Keywords: Slow death; Debility; Capacity; Occupational therapy; Healthcare practices; Society of control; Health inequities; Socio-political practices; Occupational science; Social theory
Equitable access to inclusive early learning and childcare for disabled children: The family experience
Principal investigators: Phelan, Shanon
Keywords: Disability; Child; Family; Early Learning; Childcare; Inclusion; Qualitative Research
From stories to praxis: Transforming community-based support services for women with disabilities who have survived intimate partner violence
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: women; disability; intimate partner violence; community-based services; tertiary prevention
Re-Envisioning Inclusion: Exploring Child Culture with Children with Disabilities
Principal investigators: Phelan, Shanon
Keywords: (1) Disability; (2) Children; (3) Child Culture; (4) Inclusion; (5) Exclusion; (6) Child Development; (7) Qualitative Methods; (8) Play
The loneliness crisis and the decline of free play: pathways and effects
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: disability; social isolation; free play; social-emotional development; mixed methods; longitudinal
Parental disability and youth well-being: A population-based analysis
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: (1) disability; (2) parenting; (3) youth; (4) well-being; (5) environmental adversity; (6) socioeconomic position; (7) peer relationships
Support needs and service pathways of parents with intellectual impairment
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: parenting; intellectual impairment; child welfare; family support; child safety; child development; capacity building; support needs; service pathways; mixed methods
Social inclusion of children and youth with disabilities in Canada
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: social inclusion; disabilities; well-being; children; youth
Sustainable family care for children with severe or profound disabilities
Principal investigators: McConnell, David
Keywords: family; caregiving; disability; adaptation
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Sandra Hodgetts: 4 shared papers
- Sandra Hodgetts and David McConnell: 2 shared papers
- David McConnell and Rhonda Breitkreuz: 2 shared papers
- Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and David McConnell: 1 shared paper
- David McConnell and Shanon Phelan: 1 shared paper
- Social Work
- Women's Studies
- Occupational Therapy
- Pediatrics
- Interdisciplinary Studies
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