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[8] [9] [10] However, this term first appeared in publication in a 1998 article by Harvey Blume, a year before Singer included it in a book chapter discussing the development of the concept of "neurological diversity" online. In this chapter, Singer did not claim to have created the term, and only used it in passing.
The word neurodiversity first appeared in publication in 1998, in an article by American journalist Harvey Blume, [24] 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. [3]
American writer Harvey Blume was a member of the list [32] and described it as embracing "neurological pluralism" in a 1997 article in The New York Times. [36] Blume discussed the concept of neurological diversity with Australian sociologist Judy Singer . [ 37 ]
The term "neurodiversity" was first published in Singer's 1998 Honours thesis [29] [30] and in Blume's 1998 article in The Atlantic. [31] Blume was an early self-advocate who predicted the role the Internet would play in fostering the international neurodiversity movement. [32]
The changing practice was to practice cultural understanding for neurodiversity as a social difference or personal identity. [5] In this framing, neuroatypical conditions could be recognized as another form of diversity comparable to gender, sexual orientation, or race. [ 5 ]
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.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity [1] from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives. Neurotribes was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2015, [2] [3] and has received wide acclaim from both the scientific and the popular press.
PDFedit is a free PDF editor for Unix-like operating systems (including Cygwin on top of Windows). It does not support editing protected or encrypted PDF files or word processor-style text manipulation, however. [1] PDFedit GUI is based on the Qt 3 toolkit and scripting engine , so every operation is scriptable. It also has the ability to be ...