Join Mike and Laury as they chat with Karen Thompson about the overlap between her lived experiences and her professional position in the disability arena.
Karen Thompson is the Executive Director at ASK. She works across all projects and serves on a number of statewide committees representing persons with disabilities and their families in the areas of healthcare and education. Karen has worked in disability advocacy, rehabilitative training/counseling, and public program administration serving people with disabilities professionally for 29 years. She holds a Bachelor's in Psychology. Her family experience with disabilities spans three generations. She is the daughter of a stroke survivor, the mother of two children with ADHD, and a person with dyslexia. She sees her disability as an attribute and challenges others to do the same.
To access the ASK resource website please click on the following link: https://www.askresource.org/
This podcast was recorded on 12/13/2022
To get in contact with the hosts, email: caitlin-owens@uiowa.edu
Podcast transcripts are available at: https://ucedd.uihc.org/disability-exchange
