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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"neurodiversity"”.
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Neurodiversity in vocational education: Facilitating success
RESEARCH AIM The aim was to explore how lecturers can create successful learning experiences for neurodiverse learners that not only include but take account of their challenges and utilise and enhance the capabilities that neurodiverse learners bring to the learning and teaching environment. …
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Neurodiversity and Learning Engagement in Higher Education
… than their neurotypical peers. Through a neurodiversity lens, this thesis explores the strengths and challenges associated with being a neurodivergent learner. Quantitative and qualitative research methods are adapted to focus attention on the extent to which the learning environment meets …
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Characteristics of Neurodiversity-Affirming Paediatric Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review
… of the available literature pertaining to Neurodiversity-Affirming (NDA) paediatric Occupational Therapy. This was to answer the question: “What does the literature tell us about the characteristics of NDA paediatric Occupational Therapy?” Introduction: The neurodiversity paradigm is …
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Self-Determination & Neurodiversity in Social Supports for Autistic Adolescents & Young Adults
Social skills interventions are among the most implemented supports for autistic individuals across educational and community contexts, yet growing scholarship raises concerns about the extent to which these interventions align with autistic individuals’ own goals, values, and definitions of social …
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Why is autism a disability? Examining an argument for intersectional neurodiversity
… autistic experience. In the preferred version of neurodiversity, not the brain itself, but the interaction of the brain with the environment explains autism. To challenge the brain-based explanation of autism, a small section of the available neurological data mapping the human brain is …
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Making (in)visible: Marginality, neurodiversity and COVID-19 in urban Saskatchewan
… imagination for post-pandemic futures. Keywords: Neurodiversity, COVID-19, Arts-Based Methods, Intersectionality, Invisibilization, Disability Justice
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Neurodivergent Narratives: Restorying Neurodiversity in Twenty-First Century Middle Grade Literature
Popularized middle grade literature about neurodivergent characters, typically written by neurotypical authors, often portrays disability as a problem needing to be cured or changed. In contrast, fiction created by neurodivergent authors offers alternative perspectives, reimagining and restorying …
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Towards neurodiversity-informed understandings and diagnostic assessments of autism and autistic play
… from a deficit-focused perspective, towards a neurodiversity-informed perspective. This is important for helping us to understand how to improve autistic people’s wellbeing and improve the way diagnostic assessments are carried out in ways that better cater to autistic people’s needs. To …
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Autism, Neurodiversity, and the Good Life: On the Very Possibility of Autistic Thriving
Autism is typically framed as stemming from empathy deficits as well as more general cognitive and sensory issues. In turn it is further associated with other purported harms: ranging from psychological suffering to diminished moral agency. Given such associations, in the philosophical literature, …
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"The worry that you are yourself": Darl's unforgivable neurodiversity in As I lay dying
… Articles related to the relatively new idea of neurodiversity will counter the backhanded sympathy with which the critics regard Darl. Sociological and psychological studies are used to provide scaffolding for the discussion of mental illness. The goal of conflating 21st - century social …
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BRAIN ORGANOIDS AS MODELLING CONDUITS OF HUMAN NEURODIVERSITY: ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO SINGLE CELL TRANSCRIPTOMICS
The establishment of the adult central nervous system (CNS) morphology and physiology results from finely orchestrated developmental processes. The introduction of human brain organoids (BOs), allowed to reach an unprecedented experimental tractability of brain development trajectories, surpassing …
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Does the learner profiler successfully screen for neurodiversity and predict neuropsychological outcomes in high school learners?
There has been a push for improved inclusive education for learners with learning difficulties and disabilities in SA due to the long-lasting detrimental consequences learning difficulties and disabilities have on learners' academic achievement and future outcomes. The importance of the screening …
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Reducing Stigma Around Neurodiversity Through the Use of Celebratory Technology Ice Breakers in First-Year Undergraduate Classrooms
<p>Celebratory technology for Neurodiversity is a new paradigm in the field of human computer interaction; it focuses on reducing stigma surrounding neurodivergent labels and behaviors. Celebratory technology aims to highlight the strengths of neurodiversity rather than fixing socially undesired …
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Neuroverso Escolar: um podcast para educadores
… Escolar” first season. The project is about neurodiversity in the educational environment, and has educators and education students as its target audience. The first season talks specifically about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the classroom, debating the subtopics: what it feels like to …
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Social Virtual Environments as ‘Third Places’: Co-Designing Socio-Relational Spaces For Autistic Young Adults
… contemporary perspectives informed by the neurodiversity paradigm emphasize autism as a form of human variation and call for research that centers autistic voices and lived experience. Responding to these shifts, this project explores how online environments - particularly Discord and the …
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At the Intersection of International, Neurodiverse, and "Different": Making Space for Inclusion and Belonging in Hong Kong
… DisCrit theory, Chinese cosmopolitanism, and the neurodiversity paradigm, this Dissertation-in-Practice seeks to improve the experiences of multiply marginalized students, in particular, those with additional needs, who inhabit a unique context: Sandy Field Elementary (pseudonym), an international …
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Show me the real you: Therapeutic relationship-building with autistic adults
… to be worth the effort. Grounded in the neurodiversity paradigm, this thesis shifts the focus from presumed unilateral social deficit in autistics to bilateral differences in relating, or the ‘double empathy problem’. I interviewed 17 autistic adults about their relationship-building …
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When Being Normal Isn't the Goal: How Therapists Co-Transform Beyond Normal with their Autistic Clients
… – in combination with insights from the neurodiversity paradigm of autism – may offer insights into co-transformative psychotherapy practices with autistic clients and people close to them, enabling more authentic autistic being in the world. This study used interpretative …
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
… influences of gender, neoliberalism and neurodiversity, leading to disappearance and suppression of private sphere embodied, emotional and relational aspects of myself. I aspire to counter these dynamics, to reconnect, care and enable personally, relationally and professionally, as …
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