It’s been twenty-four years since Judy Singer published her Sociology Thesis “Neurodiversity: the Birth of an Idea”. It’s been six years since the Employable Me / Employables Series launched on the ...

Neurodiversity refers to the concept that individuals perceive and engage with the world in diverse ways and have different cognitive abilities. While no one person thinks or behaves the same, ...

Watching the neurodiversity movement gain traction online and in real life has given me hope that a more inclusive and informed future isn’t too far away. In social media videos, people discuss the ...

Our current thinking about mental health is still disproportionately influenced by what's known as the medical model, which conceptualizes cognitive differences in terms of disability or disease.

Neurodiversity first emerged as a concept in the 1990s, arising from discussions in an autistic-run online group (Dekker, 2020). While it has taken many years of advocacy to bring the notion to the ...

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Neurodiversity Navigators, formerly known as Autism Spectrum Navigators, tries to make one thing very clear - the program is designed to build on students' strengths, rather than fix ...

There’s a growing push to focus on our brain differences, not deficits. This wider view of "normal" is a big part of something called neurodiversity. Advocates hope the idea expands how we think of ...