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Elisabeth Øverland

PhD research fellow

Email: elisabeth.overland@inn.no
Phone number: +47 62 51 76 68

Faculty of education
Department of Pedagogy
Campus Lillehammer

Short description

Elisabeth is a PhD Candidate on the project "Life with autism: Quality of Life, daily functioning and compensatory strategies from childhood to emerging adulthood". The project is a part of The Lillehammer Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Study, LINEUP, which is financed by the Innlandet Hospital Trust.

The aim of this project is to explore how autistic emerging adults experience their lives, and what they describe as important for leading a good life. We want to gain insight into what functions well in their lives, and what contributes to that. We also want to reveal their needs for support, both in their family, but also in educational institutions, workplaces and healthcare institutions. We want to gather information about the use of compensatory strategies, as this could be helpful in daily life for some, but at the same time demanding, and for some exhausting. To explore all this, we have done in-depth interviews with a sample of emerging adults with autism.

Research groups

Critical realism - Interdisciplinarity, Sustainability, Education and Social Science

Øverland, Elisabeth; Hauge, Åshild Lappegard; Orm, Stian; Øie, Merete Glenne; Skogli, Erik Winther & Pellicano, Elizabeth [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2024). “I have to charge my social battery”: Perspectives from autistic young adults on Quality of Life. Autism. ISSN 1362-3613. doi: 10.1177/13623613241245578.
Øverland, Elisabeth; Hauge, Åshild Lappegard; Orm, Stian; Pellicano, Elisabeth; Øie, Merete Glenne & Skogli, Erik Winther [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2022). Exploring life with autism: Quality of Life, daily functioning and compensatory strategies from childhood to emerging adulthood: A qualitative study protocol. Frontiers in Psychiatry. ISSN 1664-0640. 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1058601. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Introduction: This study aims to investigate self-perceived quality of life, daily functioning, and the use of compensatory strategies in emerging adults with autism. Methods and analysis: Participants will be recruited from the Lillehammer Neurodevelopmental 10-year follow-up study (LINEUP), with the aim of 15 individual in-depth interviews. Subsequently, two focus groups with clinicians will be invited to reflect on the themes found in the individual interviews. All interviews will be recorded and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Ethics and dissemination: The study is approved by the Regional Committee for Medical Research Ethics in South-East Norway. The findings will be disseminated to academic and clinical audiences through journal articles and conference presentations. To reach the broader autistic and autism communities, the findings will be shared with the Autism Society at national and local meetings, in their membership magazine, and on their social media channel.

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Øverland, Elisabeth (2024). "Jeg må lade det sosiale batteriet mitt" Perspektiver fra unge voksne autistiske personer om livskvalitet .
Øverland, Elisabeth; Pellicano, Elizabeth; Skogli, Erik Winther; Hauge, Åshild Lappegard; Orm, Stian & Øie, Merete Glenne [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). Growing up with autism: Perspectives from autistic emerging adults on Quality of Life.
Lundahl, Kathe-Inger; Øverland, Elisabeth & Askheim, Siw (2022). Selektiv mutisme hos barn og unge - hvordan arter det seg i barnehage og skole og hva er god hjelp? Psykologi i kommunen (PIK). ISSN 1892-3364.
Øverland, Elisabeth; Damsgaard, Kristine; Nordby, Maren-Johanne; Wilberg, Espen Langbråten; Tjäder, Hedda Gjesti & Bredesen, Aud (2021). Elever med nevroutviklingsforstyrrelser og alvorlig skolefravær. Spesialpedagogikk. ISSN 0332-8457. Show summary
I denne artikkelen presenterer vi hva elever med nevroutviklingsforstyrrelser selv mener er årsaken til skolefraværet de har hatt, og hva som bør endres for at elever med slike vansker skal få en bedre skolehverdag.
Øverland, Elisabeth & Zahl, Erica (2021). Gruppetilbud til unge med autismespekterforstyrrelse. Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening. ISSN 0332-6470. 58(5), p. 362–367.

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Addresses

Postal Address

Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Postboks 400 Vestad
2418 Elverum
Norway