We asked the expert panellists from the launch event to create a recommended multimedia “reading list” and this is what they shared:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Alicia Broderick<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jac den Houting (2019): TEDx: Why Everything You Know About Autism is Wrong<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a clear, succinct, and accessible discussion of the necessary paradigmatic shift from pathology paradigm thinking to neurodiversity paradigm thinking. If you are trying to market to \u201cneurodiversity\u201d (by which you mistakenly probably mean \u201cneurodivergent people\u201d) without actually shifting your assumptions away from pathologizing neurodivergent people and toward understanding and valuing the full range of human neurodiversity, then your efforts may be misguided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kristen Essex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Workplace Neurodiversity Rising<\/span> by Lyric Rivera (they\/them) – The book guides organizations to consider what they can do to support neurodivergent employees and offers practical strategies to cultivate a neuroinclusive organizational culture. Rivera is an autistic author who runs the Neurodivergent Rebel blog and pioneered the #AskingAutistics hashtag, where simple questions invite autistic people to respond and converse with one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Organization for Autism Research has a free-to-access Libby library of curated autism related e-books and audio books: https:\/\/researchautism.org\/resources\/lending-library\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Josephine Go Jefferies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommend watching an award-winning advertisement, ‘Me, My Autism, and I’ directed by Tom Hooper for Reckitt’s Vanish laundry stain remover detergent. The short film features Ash, a young person with autism and her family in England. This is an example of cause-related marketing to raise awareness of autism as affecting girls and women. The campaign is focused on autism visibility and representation with guidance from the advocacy organisation, Ambitious about Autism https:\/\/www.diversityinadvertising.co.uk\/winner\/vanish-me-my-autism-and-i\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jean Hewitt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I recommend watching the short film<\/a> about the Grimaldi building project for the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and taking a peek at the free to download PAS 6463 Guidance: Neurodiversity & the Built Environment – PAS 6463:2022 | BSI (bsigroup.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Margaux Joffe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People”<\/a> This Disability Justice Primer, based on the work of Patty Berne and Sins Invalid, offers analysis, history and context for the growing Disability Justice Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You<\/a> by Jenara Nerenberg<\/a>. A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women\u2014those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder\u2014exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation<\/a> by Eric Garcia<\/a>. With a reporter\u2019s eye and an insider\u2019s perspective, Eric Garcia shows what it\u2019s like to be autistic across America. Chapter 4 goes into detail on Autism in the workplace, what to understand and pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you want to see the recent research i mentioned on neurodivergent employee experience with disclosure and accommodations: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/margauxjoffe_accommodations-neurodiversity-hr-activity-7199401243008458752-nLdF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tim Vogus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a video of Eric Garcia (an autistic journalist) and Steve Silberman (author of Neurotribes) discussing Eric\u2019s outstanding book \u201cWe\u2019re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.\u201d You will think and see differently after this conversation. Read the book too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/h1>\n\n\n\n