Alice-Simone Balter

Biographic Data

ID287699
NAMEAlice-Simone Balter
GIVEN NAMESAlice-Simone
FAMILY NAMEBalter
SIGNATUREBALTER A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Guelph
ORCID0000-0002-9823-4467
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Finding a Needle in a Haystack

    Open AccessAlice-Simone Balter, Alice‐Simone Balter et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2025

    BACKGROUND: This practice paper exemplifies a systematic approach used to learn about existing mental well-being programs for youth 11-14 years to inform curriculum development for after-school settings. METHODS: We reviewed 3389 mental well-being programs from publicly accessed databases and conducted a content analysis using inductive and deductive coding to explore the domains each program addressed. RESULTS: Through our content analysis of th…

  • Mothering Disabled Children in Early Childhood

    Open AccessAlice-Simone Balter, Kathryn Underwood et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2025References: 39

    This paper considers Smith's 'standard North American family' (SNAF; 2005; 1999; 1993) to understand how early childhood systems uphold and reproduce gendered spaces of care for disabled children that also reify ableist, racist, and classist constructions of family and mothering. We present findings from an analysis of 25 mother and caregiver interviews over a 6-9 year time period, through which we have mapped the interactions that families have …

  • Mental health needs assessment for youth in out of school programs

    Open AccessSabrina Brodkin, Annabel Sibalis et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2024

    Out‐of‐school programs are an accessible option to bolster the mental well‐being of youth, who may be at risk of developing further emotional and behavioural concerns. Developing a more nuanced understanding of the tools and methods available to understand youth mental health needs, in the context of out‐of‐school programs is needed to provide relevant services. However, many out‐of‐school programs do not include such an assessment. One barrier t…

  • Understanding Speech-Language Pathology from the Standpoint of Families

    Open AccessKathryn Underwood, Alice-Simone Balter et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2024References: 7

    The Inclusive Early Childhood Service System (IECSS) project is a longitudinal institutional ethnography that studies disability services in early childhood, and the interactions between these services and other systems, from the standpoint of families. In this paper, we examine speech-language services as part of a system of services and a site of participation for disabled children. We use longitudinal data from annual interviews with 117 infor…

  • Re‐Imagining Inclusion Through the Lens of Disabled Childhoods

    Open AccessAlice-Simone Balter, Laura Feltham et al.ARTICLESocial Inclusion2022References: 12

    The purpose of this article is to contribute new insights to critical disability and disabled children’s childhood studies that center on the valuing of disabled children’s lives—a guiding purpose in the disability justice movement. We use published findings from the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project, a longitudinal, institutional ethnography of the ways that families and children are organized around categories of disability, whic…

  • Pandemic Effects

    Open AccessKathryn Underwood, Tricia van Rhijn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Childhood Studies2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed social organizations and altered children’s worlds. As part of an ongoing longitudinal study of the institutional organization of disabled children’s lives, since March 2020 we have conducted interviews with families in rural and urban communities across Canada (65 families at the time of writing). The narrow focus of governments on the economy, childcare, and schooling does not reflect the scope of experiences o…