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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Neurodivergence"”.
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Immersive experience between neurodivergence and neurotypicality Community Center for and by Autistic adults
This thesis explores the design of a community center tailored for autistic adults, aiming to foster inclusivity and blur boundaries between neurodiverse and non-neurodiverse individuals. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it investigates spatial and sensory elements to create an immersive …
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Effective Altruism on Animal Activism — A Site of Ableism and Neoliberal Co-optation of Neurodivergence
Effective Altruism, or EA, is a relatively recent framework and movement introduced to global philanthropic spaces (Singer, 2015), relying on “careful analysis of evidence” (Gabriel, 2017, p. 458) to answer the question, “How can I make the biggest difference I can?” (MacAskill, 2016, p. 11). It …
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Who Gets to Be Taken Seriously? Three Atypical Scholars Navigate Doctoral Education at the Intersections of Race, Neurodivergence, and Veteran Identity
… institutional power at the intersections of neurodivergence, veteran status, first-generation identity, and race.</p> <p>The study was guided by three research questions: How do atypical students experience barriers related to their intersecting identities in doctoral education? What …
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The experience of neurodivergent midwives in Aotearoa New Zealand: An appreciative inquiry
As awareness of neurodivergence grows and diagnostic pathways improve, increasing numbers of health professionals are identifying as neurodivergent (ND). However, little is known about the experiences of ND kahu pōkai (midwives) in Aotearoa New Zealand. This study explores how ND kahu pōkai …
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Divergence: Toward a Neurodivergent Latinx Liberative Social Ethic
… society and theological discourse. While neurodivergence and disability are not synonymous, the failure to recognize the marginalization of disability contributes to neurodivergent invisibility. Disability is depoliticized when disability is conceived as an issue of individual embodiment …
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Reducing Stigma Around Neurodiversity Through the Use of Celebratory Technology Ice Breakers in First-Year Undergraduate Classrooms
… interests' others have in common, thus reframing neurodivergence as inclusion in human diversity rather than a condition to be stigmatized or objectified. This work addresses a critical pain point: first impressions. This project specifically targets first year undergraduate students with declared …
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Creating Imaginary Worlds on the Page and in the Mind
… practice, which has been informed by his own neurodivergence in general and his aphantasia in particular. It has also been informed by Wolfgang Iser’s phenomenological exploration of the reading process. The thesis interrogates the techniques and conceptual framework employed during the …
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Beyond the table and into the dungeon: a study into queer and neurodivergent experiences of identity within tabletop roleplaying games
… as well as non-deficit-based research into neurodivergence. The identity theories used were Eriksons theory of identity, as well as the possible selves theory. The data collection took place over two groups, consisting of interviews and gameplay using the games Dungeons and Dragons and Call …
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Celestial Bodies and Other Stories
… including gender, sexual orientation, and neurodivergence. “Changeling” recounts the story of El and their twin sister, Riza; their mother has always suspected that one of them is a changeling from Celtic mythology. “Let the Pruning Hooks Remain Themselves” is based in classical mythology, …
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Reconfiguring motherhood an autoethnography of ADHD, care, and knowing in the homeplace
… scholarship on Black motherhood, literacy, and neurodivergence by framing maternal self-definition as a dynamic literacy practice—an act of reading, interpreting, and reauthoring oneself in relation to child, community, and system. It ends with a call for pedagogies and research methods that …
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Understanding Video Interview Experiences and ADHD
… interview. Of interest in this research is how neurodivergence influences a host of reaction measures to the AVI experience. Particularly, we focus on the experience of adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We know that adults with ADHD experience challenges in the …
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A heuristic enquiry of being “Alaq,” suspended in liminality as a convert to Islam
… of her liminal stuckness. This intersection of neurodivergence and spiritual practice underscores the potential of integrated psycho-spiritual approaches in addressing complex identity and mental health issues. The conclusions highlight the parallel processes between the liminality of religious …
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Collective Case Study Career Critique of Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Gifted Adults
… Key findings included that learning about gifted neurodivergence positively develops self-awareness; self-awareness and curiosity impact self-education, which influences self-efficacy; frustration with work experiences spurs positive disintegration of career paths; intellectual knowledge and …
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Equity at Work: Understanding the Experiences of Employees and Job Seekers Who Are Neurodivergent
… invest in comprehensive training on neurodivergence, they gain the tools, language, and strategies necessary to enact meaningful change that supports everyone at every stage of employment.
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Feeling Time Differently: Autistic Temporality, Self-Care Technologies & Social Imaginaries of the Good Life
… reflections on a renewed social imaginary of neurodivergence and harmonised coexistence. Theoretically, this study integrates phenomenologically inspired approaches to time and temporality with insights from symbolic interactionism, critical disability studies, and the sociology of the good …
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Unmasked and Unprotected: An Autistic Poet's Journey of Imperfect Confession
<p>Cynthia Short’s thesis analyzes the consumption and contortion of neurodivergent experience across the clinical, personal, and artistic stages. Combining intersectional memoir with clinical research, traditional poetics, and spoken word experience, she weaves a first-person narrative of …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Workplace Experiences to Inform Transition Services for Neurodivergent Youth
<p>Individuals with disabilities, including neurodivergent individuals, are employed are significantly lower rates than individuals without disabilities (Bureau of Labor Statistics [BLS], 2023). Although secondary schools are responsible for engaging in transition planning for students with …
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"""Reverse pictures"": twentieth-century American portraiture and the subversion of the medico-photographic body"
This dissertation considers the efforts of twentieth-century American artists to challenge empirical knowledge about the body through the reappropriation, manipulation, and parody of corporeal stereotypes. It contains a series of case studies which explore the work of Marsden Hartley, Paul Cadmus, …
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Sex Differences in Social and Cognitive Abilities of Autistic Individuals
Autistic females have been consistently underdiagnosed and diagnosed later compared to autistic males. Although the causes are multifactorial, this discrepancy can be partially explained by different behavioral manifestations in the social domain that conform more closely to societal expectations, …
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The Vigor of Creative Materialism: Making the Hidden Stories of Underrepresented Engineering Students Visible
<p>Despite decades of initiatives, engineering education continues to lack diversity. The proportion of women, BIPOC, LGBTQA+, low-income, first-generation, and disabled students in engineering education remains below national population levels. The culture of engineering is a barrier to increasing …
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