 Following neurodiversity: trends and tactics along the quest for better worldsMargaret F. Gibson Chapter 9 in Disability in a Turbulent Era, 2026, pp 111-120 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This chapter is about what I have learned about the word “neurodiversity”. “Neurodiversity” is a word that means that people think and learn differently, and this is okay. More people have started using this word, but they do not all use it in the same way. I asked 60 people in Canada what they think “neurodiversity” means, and why they use this word. These people all thought neurodiversity was important. Some said they knew lots of places to talk about neurodiversity. Some almost never had a chance to hear or talk about neurodiversity. Everyone thought that what happens in schools and social programs needs to change. They hoped that neurodiversity would help make change happen. What happens now does not work well for many people. Too often, programs and the people who work in them assume that everyone should learn the same way in the same amount of time. But not everyone learns the same way in the same amount of time. Now some people in governments are trying to make it harder to even talk about differences between people. Disabled people and their allies will need to keep working on how to make things better. Keywords: Neurodiversity; Neurodivergence; Institutional ethnography; Systemic inequities; Anti-diversity policies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:23973_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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