Recap: What Instructors Need to Know When Working with Neurodivergent Students
This is a very useful introduction to the topic from Liz Norell. If you know a little bit about ADHD or autism but want to know more, or if you're interested in supporting neurodivergent students but don't know what to say, this is where to start.
Because any learning space (or any group gathering, for that matter) includes people with diverse ways of knowing, processing information, and learning, all of these spaces will be neurodiverse. Meeting the needs of the neurodivergent, though, requires some awareness and intentionality.
Neurodivergent describes those who have some condition that impacts how their brains work; this might be a learning disability, attention deficit or anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, bipolar disorder, and more.