Travelling with an Asperger's child
Andersson, Allegra; Tuuri, Julia (2020)
Andersson, Allegra
Tuuri, Julia
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202003233797
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202003233797
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Accessible tourism has been a risen matter during this decade. Accessible tourism is all about equality which is luckily a famous discussion topic and affects this way to everything for instance to tourism industry as well. There are many segments of people who require this so-called inclusive tourism, accessible tourism or tourism for all. There are people with physical disability, sensory disability or intellectual disability. All these groups have different needs at the airport, at the destination or anywhere when travelling between home and the actual destination.
In this thesis intellectual disability is in a big role since that section covers travellers from the spectrum of autism that this research is all about. As accessible tourism is a risen matter so is autism. 1 out of 60 kids are nowadays diagnosed in autism spectrum. Autism chapters covers information of different forms of autism, what symptoms they might face, what is typical for them and different kind of general information of autism from origins of it to the commonness of it.
Research was produced with unstructured qualitative method by using theme interviews. There were four themes in the interviews. Planning a vacation, travelling, being at the vaca-tion and back home after a vacation. Covering these four parts interviews gave full picture understanding of the trip. What kind of preparations are done with planning, what happens at the airport, what kind of trips are taking place at the destination and what happens when the trip is over and the family is back at home.
Suomen Autismiliitto has acted as a commissioner to the research project and has guaran-teed information with their webpage. Another useful resource has been Facebook group for Asperger’s children's- parents peer support group where all the interviewees were found. All the interviews were conducted by phone since the interviewees live all over Finland and Germany. Interviews were conducted with every interviewee's native language.
The concluding chapter condenses what was learned when producing the research including theoretical framework, interviews and the results. In its entirety combining the mat-ter of accessible tourism and autism forms a unique handbook like research that provides information of accessible tourism with a focus of an Asperger’s child. Recommendations form a platform of the actual tips for the families when travelling. Goal of the research was to gather trustworthy, useful and versatile tips when travelling with an Asperger’s child. Also growing the consciousness of Asperger’s travellers is hoped with the thesis.
In this thesis intellectual disability is in a big role since that section covers travellers from the spectrum of autism that this research is all about. As accessible tourism is a risen matter so is autism. 1 out of 60 kids are nowadays diagnosed in autism spectrum. Autism chapters covers information of different forms of autism, what symptoms they might face, what is typical for them and different kind of general information of autism from origins of it to the commonness of it.
Research was produced with unstructured qualitative method by using theme interviews. There were four themes in the interviews. Planning a vacation, travelling, being at the vaca-tion and back home after a vacation. Covering these four parts interviews gave full picture understanding of the trip. What kind of preparations are done with planning, what happens at the airport, what kind of trips are taking place at the destination and what happens when the trip is over and the family is back at home.
Suomen Autismiliitto has acted as a commissioner to the research project and has guaran-teed information with their webpage. Another useful resource has been Facebook group for Asperger’s children's- parents peer support group where all the interviewees were found. All the interviews were conducted by phone since the interviewees live all over Finland and Germany. Interviews were conducted with every interviewee's native language.
The concluding chapter condenses what was learned when producing the research including theoretical framework, interviews and the results. In its entirety combining the mat-ter of accessible tourism and autism forms a unique handbook like research that provides information of accessible tourism with a focus of an Asperger’s child. Recommendations form a platform of the actual tips for the families when travelling. Goal of the research was to gather trustworthy, useful and versatile tips when travelling with an Asperger’s child. Also growing the consciousness of Asperger’s travellers is hoped with the thesis.