Timothy Ross
Biographic Data
| ID | 6247977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Ross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ross |
| SIGNATURE | ROSS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9344-8645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An umbrella review of barriers, facilitators, and interventions for children and youth with disabilities
Children and youth with disabilities have fewer opportunities for structured and unstructured active play than their peers without disabilities. This umbrella review explored how active play is defined and perceived among children and youth with disabilities and their adult facilitators, and identified barriers, facilitators, and interventions influencing active play among children and youth with disabilities. A total of 18 review articles were d…
Delivering accessible school transportation services in Canada's Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
Accessible school transportation is often essential to disabled students’ equitable access to education. This study centres on the experiences of education professionals with disabled students’ school transportation in Ontario, Canada’s Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Grounded in a Critical Disability Studies perspective, the paper is organized around three key themes: operational barriers, communication complexities, and inclusive practices. …
Understanding accessibility and disability in the planning profession
Disability discrimination has been prohibited in Canada for decades, yet people with disabilities continue to experience inaccessible built environments. Canada’s most populous province – Ontario – has well-developed accessibility legislation but was recently evaluated to be in a ‘crisis state’ after 20 years of implementation. Planners have profound influence on built environments, thus we ask planners about their attitudes, perceptions and know…
Storying the inclusive playground experiences of families of disabled and non-disabled children
Public toilet provision for people with disabilities
We are always in self-isolation”
The pandemic disproportionately influenced marginalized communities in North America. However, the social and spatial inequalities impacting marginalized rare genetic disease communities – such as those living with cystic fibrosis – have not been heard in mainstream pandemic narratives. Sensitized by the social determinants of health, this qualitative study explored the experiences of 12 youth with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) during the pandemic. Conten…
Understanding the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds designed for disability inclusion
Disabled children and their families are often excluded from community play opportunities, including playgrounds. One potential solution is inclusive playgrounds. This study explores the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds inspired by Principles of Universal Design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 parents (16 parents of disabled children) located across four Canadian cities with newly buil…
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Children’s Usage of Inclusive Playgrounds
Inclusive playgrounds that are designed to be physically accessible and welcoming to children with disabilities may provide equal and equitable access to play for all children. Using a naturalistic observational design, this study examines children's use of a playground designed to be accessible and inclusive for all ages and abilities. A modified version of the System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities was used to collect child dat…
Understanding the effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare
Prior research demonstrates that the interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation in child welfare, used in the New York City Family Court, speeds up the time to permanency for children in foster care with no effect on child safety. Interrogating these findings further, this study utilizes a qualitative interview-based design to understand how the model works in practice to impact the outcomes of families’ cases. We interviewe…
A visual ethnographic pilot study of school travel for families living with childhood disability
Children’s school transport has become a major research focus over the past 20 years, particularly within the fields of planning, transport geography, and children’s geographies. However, this work has rarely considered children living with disability. This article presents the pilot component of a visual ethnographic study about school transport within families living with childhood disability. It explains why we piloted the study, details the p…
Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare
This study utilizes a quasi-experimental propensity score matching design to assess the causal impact on child welfare outcomes when parents facing an abuse or neglect case in the New York City Family Court were provided interdisciplinary law office representation as opposed to a standard panel attorney. The interdisciplinary law office approach includes social work staff and parent advocates for the parent, and salaried attorneys working in nonp…
The decline in active school transportation (AST)
Using and dealing on Calle 19
Notes from South America
Analyzing Crime Patterns
Using real case studies from New York where GIS have been at the centre of a successful programme, the contributors to this study present methods of combining geographic information systems and application software with strategies to reduce crime
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare
This study utilizes a quasi-experimental propensity score matching design to assess the causal impact on child welfare outcomes when parents facing an abuse or neglect case in the New York City Family Court were provided interdisciplinary law office representation as opposed to a standard panel attorney. The interdisciplinary law office approach includes social work staff and parent advocates for the parent, and salaried attorneys working in nonp…
Understanding the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds designed for disability inclusion
Disabled children and their families are often excluded from community play opportunities, including playgrounds. One potential solution is inclusive playgrounds. This study explores the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds inspired by Principles of Universal Design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 parents (16 parents of disabled children) located across four Canadian cities with newly buil…
Analyzing Crime Patterns
Using real case studies from New York where GIS have been at the centre of a successful programme, the contributors to this study present methods of combining geographic information systems and application software with strategies to reduce crime
Notes from South America
Using and dealing on Calle 19
The decline in active school transportation (AST)
A visual ethnographic pilot study of school travel for families living with childhood disability
Children’s school transport has become a major research focus over the past 20 years, particularly within the fields of planning, transport geography, and children’s geographies. However, this work has rarely considered children living with disability. This article presents the pilot component of a visual ethnographic study about school transport within families living with childhood disability. It explains why we piloted the study, details the p…
Effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare
This study utilizes a quasi-experimental propensity score matching design to assess the causal impact on child welfare outcomes when parents facing an abuse or neglect case in the New York City Family Court were provided interdisciplinary law office representation as opposed to a standard panel attorney. The interdisciplinary law office approach includes social work staff and parent advocates for the parent, and salaried attorneys working in nonp…
Understanding the effects of an interdisciplinary approach to parental representation in child welfare
Prior research demonstrates that the interdisciplinary law office approach to parental representation in child welfare, used in the New York City Family Court, speeds up the time to permanency for children in foster care with no effect on child safety. Interrogating these findings further, this study utilizes a qualitative interview-based design to understand how the model works in practice to impact the outcomes of families’ cases. We interviewe…
Children’s Usage of Inclusive Playgrounds
Inclusive playgrounds that are designed to be physically accessible and welcoming to children with disabilities may provide equal and equitable access to play for all children. Using a naturalistic observational design, this study examines children's use of a playground designed to be accessible and inclusive for all ages and abilities. A modified version of the System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities was used to collect child dat…
Engaging Disability Theory in Planning Practice
In this commentary, we suggest that disability in planning practice is widely under-theorized. Planners must respond to normalized inattention to disability in the planning field and can begin doing so by engaging disability theory in practice. Five disability perspectives are discussed with a view to providing planners with a disability theory toolkit: (1) the medical, (2) social, and (3) biopsychosocial models; (4) a neoliberal viewpoint; and (…
We are always in self-isolation”
The pandemic disproportionately influenced marginalized communities in North America. However, the social and spatial inequalities impacting marginalized rare genetic disease communities – such as those living with cystic fibrosis – have not been heard in mainstream pandemic narratives. Sensitized by the social determinants of health, this qualitative study explored the experiences of 12 youth with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) during the pandemic. Conten…
Understanding the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds designed for disability inclusion
Disabled children and their families are often excluded from community play opportunities, including playgrounds. One potential solution is inclusive playgrounds. This study explores the experiences of parents of disabled and non-disabled children at playgrounds inspired by Principles of Universal Design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 parents (16 parents of disabled children) located across four Canadian cities with newly buil…
Understanding accessibility and disability in the planning profession
Disability discrimination has been prohibited in Canada for decades, yet people with disabilities continue to experience inaccessible built environments. Canada’s most populous province – Ontario – has well-developed accessibility legislation but was recently evaluated to be in a ‘crisis state’ after 20 years of implementation. Planners have profound influence on built environments, thus we ask planners about their attitudes, perceptions and know…
Storying the inclusive playground experiences of families of disabled and non-disabled children
Public toilet provision for people with disabilities
An umbrella review of barriers, facilitators, and interventions for children and youth with disabilities
Children and youth with disabilities have fewer opportunities for structured and unstructured active play than their peers without disabilities. This umbrella review explored how active play is defined and perceived among children and youth with disabilities and their adult facilitators, and identified barriers, facilitators, and interventions influencing active play among children and youth with disabilities. A total of 18 review articles were d…
Delivering accessible school transportation services in Canada's Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
Accessible school transportation is often essential to disabled students’ equitable access to education. This study centres on the experiences of education professionals with disabled students’ school transportation in Ontario, Canada’s Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Grounded in a Critical Disability Studies perspective, the paper is organized around three key themes: operational barriers, communication complexities, and inclusive practices. …
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Family and Disability Support Research (3 works) · Inclusion (mineral (3 works) · Law (3 works)