The term neurodiversity was coined by Judy Singer in 1998. A lot has changed in the two decades since that first essay about neurological differences was published in The Atlantic. The neurodiversity ...
Man and woman standing opposite each other on either side of the road, divided by a red line. Divorce, breakup, borders, barrier and brexit concept. To put it bluntly, minority neurotypes like ADHD, ...
Public perceptions of autism have come far in the 80 years since Austrian American scientist Leo Kanner first described a neurodevelopmental childhood disorder causing “an innate inability to form the ...
“In our conversations around [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion], the same topics, understandably, often bubble up to the top,” Laura Murray, assistant director for learning programs at the McGraw ...
Language trends change quickly at the hands of social media users. They explode into our screens, rather than slowly evolve. This can change the ways we talk about diagnoses such as autism and ...
Companies including CAI, Dell Technologies, EY, Freddie Mac, Google, HP, Microsoft, SAP, Spectrum Designs Foundation reaffirm commitment to neurodivergent candidates, an untapped talent pool that can ...
Anuksha S. Wickramasinghe ’24 is a Neuroscience concentrator and Crimson Editorial editor in Mather House. Her column “Adhdventures” appears on alternate Wednesdays. “Neurodiversity: (noun) the range ...
I am blind and autistic. Like many people who grew up experiencing the world differently to mainstream Australians, I was thrilled last Thursday to read Black Inc.’s announcement of a new anthology, ...
The Nuffield Health Trust Think Tank have published data that there are an estimated 1.2 million Autistic people and 2.2 million ADHDers in the UK. They rightly note that diagnosis services are simply ...