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The word neurodiversity first appeared in publication in 1998, in an article by American journalist Harvey Blume, [22] as a portmanteau of the words neurological diversity, which had been used as early as 1996 in online spaces such as InLv to describe the growing concept of a natural diversity in humanity's neurological expression. [2]
In various articles and especially in their book Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism, Chapman has criticized how psychiatrists and the field of psychiatry deal with the issue of mental health and disability. In this book, they build on existing work that urges the need for alternatives to psychiatry and clinical psychology, led ...
Walker initially began writing about neurodiversity and developing her conceptualization of the neurodiversity paradigm in 2003, in online autistic activist forums. Her first piece on the neurodiversity paradigm to appear in print was the essay “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm,” published in 2012.
Neurodiversity Celebration Week was started in 2018 by Siena Castellon when she was 16 year old. [4] As an autistic student, who also has dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD, she experienced significant challenges, prejudice and bullying throughout her education.
Waldie was born in Vancouver, and undertook her undergraduate education at the University of Victoria. She then completed an MSc, followed by a PhD titled Hemispheric specialization for reading in subtypes of children with developmental dyslexia, both at the University of Calgary. Her doctoral work was supervised by Lary Mosley. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The neurodiverse-friendly office . All kinds of companies have made updates to their employee experience strategy with neurodivergent workers in mind, including EY, Goldman Sachs, and IBM.But the ...
Price has delved into the intersectional nature of neurodiversity and the experiences of autistic people of color. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He is a staunch proponent of self-diagnosis and criticizes clinical evaluations, framing autism as a non-pathological social identity, despite acknowledging it as a neurodevelopmental disability.
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.