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The Neurodiversity Movement grew largely from online interaction. The internet's design lent well to the needs of many autistic people. [34] People socialized over listservs and IRCs. Some of the websites used for organizing in the Neurodiversity Movement's early days include sites like Autistics.Org [35] [36] and Autistic People Against ...
Jim Sinclair is an American autistic activist and writer who helped pioneer the neurodiversity movement. [1] Sinclair, along with Xenia Grant and Donna Williams, formed Autism Network International (ANI). [2] Sinclair became the original coordinator of ANI. [3]
Kassiane A. Asasumasu (née Sibley; born 1982) is an American autism rights activist who is credited for coining several terms related to the Neurodiversity Movement, including neurodivergent, neurodivergence, and caregiver benevolence.
Due to accreditation of the origin of the term "neurodiversity" to Singer by Steve Silberman in his book NeuroTribes, Singer is often credited with the creation of the term neurodiversity [1] to represent both the idea of neurological diversity and to think about the existence of a social movement of neurological minorities that would also ...
Autism rights movement (14 P) Pages in category "Neurodiversity" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
In the mid-2010s various large multinational corporations began developing policy on occupational neurodiversity. [5] Previously, organizations either did not discuss the issue, or if they addressed it, then it was a sort of disability accommodation. [5]
The autism rights movement, also known as the autistic acceptance movement, is a social movement allied with the disability rights movement. It emphasizes the neurodiversity paradigm , viewing autism as a set of naturally occurring variations in human cognition , a disability with both strengths and weaknesses, rather than as a disease to be ...
The autism rights movement is a social movement within the context of disability rights that emphasizes the concept of neurodiversity, viewing the autism spectrum as a result of natural variations in the human brain rather than a disorder/disease to be cured. [75]