Tag: Occupational Therapy
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Becoming Neurodiversity Affirming: Listening to Autistic People to Inform our Approaches with Neurodivergent Students in Schools
Autistic people are advocating for changes in how we support neurodivergent children in schools. Instead of trying to make Autistic students conform to neurotypical expectations, we need to better understand and accommodate them. The neurodiversity paradigm views autism as a different way of being (Houting, 2019). Autistic people may think, process senses, move, communicate, and…