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Neurodiversity Celebration Week: 17th - 23rd March 2025.

Neurodiversity describes the range of brains in the world from mine to yours with everyone else mixed up in this grouping! Neurodiversity is a plural and refers to all.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week began in 2018 and encourages schools, universities, students, parents and organisations to work together to help change the narrative around neurodiversity. You can find the organisations mission and position statements here and a range of resources and events occurring over the week.

Neurodivergent* is singular and refers to a person and it refers to a difference in being. Being neurodivergent can mean there is a name for the different ways of being – Autism Spectrum Condition, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia, or Tourette’s. Each difference means that we can experience the world in different ways to the majority of people.

Let’s celebrate being neurodivergent and whilst we recognise the challenges being neurodivergent can bring, it can also be a very useful way of viewing the world and can bring a diverse range of skills and talents that can be applied to your studies, your research, teaching or employment.

Grab a cup of something refreshing and spend a few minutes reading, listening or viewing any of the resources we have drawn together to support Neurodiversity Celebration Week!

To get you started, here are a range of resources related to neurodiversity from different perspectives:

• Honeybourne, V. (2018). The neurodiverse classroom : a teacher’s guide to specific learning difficulties and meeting individual students needs. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

• Oslund, C. (2014). Supporting college and university students with invisible disabilities : a guide for faculty and staff working with students with autism, AD/HD, language processing disorders, anxiety, and mental illness. Jessica Kingsley.
• Halder, S., & Squires, G. (Eds.). (2023). Inclusion and diversity : communities and practices across the world. Routledge.
• Smith, T., & Kirby, A. (2021). Neurodiversity at work : drive innovation, performance and productivity with a neurodiverse workforce. KoganPage.
• Honeybourne, V. (2020). The neurodiverse workplace : an employer’s guide to managing and working with neurodivergent employees, clients and customers. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Hallam Library has an extensive Curated Reading list.

• Neurodiversity: Seeing the world through multiple lens to help you further explore!

Plus… take a look at our Box of Broadcasts playlist packed with programmes and radio celebrating the wonderful world of neurodiversity! related to being autistic.

After that lovely cup of tea or coffee, our understanding may have expanded, or we may have gathered up new information and begun to look at others or ourselves a little more compassionately.

*These are examples of being neurodivergent and not representative of all neurodivergent differences.