Learn More About Neurodiversity
In addition to checking out our apprentices’ writing and videography work as examples of the kind of work we do as a team at Legacy Farms, check out these articles and resources to learn more about neurodiversity!
Neurodiversity: The Movement
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-elusive-brain/202004/neurodiversity-the-movement
How to Talk About Autism Respectfully:
Interview with John Elder Robison, IACC (8 minute video with transcript): https://iacc.hhs.gov/meetings/multimedia/2019/john-robison-interview/
" I think that neurodiversity, the idea that there is a range of Neurology that is a natural part of the human species - that's a thing that a good many of us seem to be comfortable with and really embrace. And neurodiversity is our word. Neurodiversity isn't a diagnosis that is bestowed upon us by a doctor. It is our word to recognize that we are different, our brains are wired different. We don't have to be tested to be told this. You know it. I knew I was different all my life, even with no knowledge of autism as a kid. And neurodiversity is our way to take charge of the conversation, to say that neurodiversity is about the mix of exceptionality and disability that we live with. But it is mostly a function - it's mostly a focus of what we can do and who we are. It is a positive thing, not an inherently negative thing. And so I think that is really the important idea behind talk of neurodiversity. It is absolutely not a denial of disability, you can believe in neurodiversity and be very, very disabled. And you can also be very, very exceptional."
Stanford Neurodiversity Project:
https://med.stanford.edu/neurodiversity.html
William & Mary Neurodiversity Initiative:
https://www.wm.edu/sites/neurodiversity/index.php
Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage, Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2017/05/neurodiversity-as-a-competitive-advantage
Open Office, New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/autism-office-design.html
Organic Education (and Neurodiversity): John Elder Robison at TEDxCollegeofWilliam&Mary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkQifd-D1U
Neurodiversity: On the neurological underpinnings of geekdom, The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/09/neurodiversity/305909/