The Neurodiversity Reader: Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice

The Neurodiversity Reader: Exploring Concepts, Lived Experience and Implications for Practice
ISBN-10
1912755394
ISBN-13
9781912755394
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
350
Language
English
Published
2020-08-28
Publisher
Pavilion Publishing and Media Limited
Author
Damian Milton

Description

This thought-provoking collection is written for all stakeholders in relation to autism and neurodivergent conditions. Despite having wide impact on a variety of disciplines, neurodiversity and related concepts are often poorly understood, which can lead to uninformed debate and potential tensions between stakeholders regarding service provision for those with neuro-developmental disabilities. The Neurodiveristy Reader brings together work from pioneering figures within and beyond the neurodiversity movement to critically explore its history, the concepts of neurodiversity that have shaped it, lived experiences, and how a better informed understanding might be translated into practice and service provision. Through a variety of accounts, the relevance and criticisms of these concepts in understanding ourselves and one another are examined, as well as important implications for practice. A primary text for support professionals and students of neurodivergent experiences and disability, as well as neurodivergent people themselves.

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