They don’t take #DisabilityStudies classes.
Karrie Higgins
They don’t socialize with us.
They don’t listen to us.
Our advocacy for neurodiversity affirming practice in healthcare seeks to improve delivery of healthcare to neurodivergent and disabled consumers. We seek to improve health practitioner competency through education and training programs and bring attention to the inadequacies of care in order to advance systemic change.
We see lots of neurodiversity-lite solutions applied to healthcare that fail to advance systemic change. We’re here for real structural change steeped in neurodiversity and disability justice.
Join us on our healthcare learning pathway. Learn how to adopt neurodiversity affirming practice that meets our needs into care settings.
About Learning Pathways
A learning pathway is a route taken by a learner through a range of pages, modules, lessons, and courses to build knowledge progressively.
Pathways don’t need to be traversed in order. Pick what looks interesting. Choose your own adventure.
Access
Here are some things practitioners should and should not do in order to provide neurodiversity affirming care.
- Healthcare Access: They don’t take Disability Studies classes. They don’t socialize with us. They don’t listen to us.
- Enable Dignity: Everywhere Should Be Accessible
- Autistic Communication Tool | Supporting Autistic People in Healthcare
- Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #2: Healthcare Access
Our Needs
Here are some things we need as neurodivergent and disabled people seeking care.
- We Need Human-Centered Healthcare
- Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences
- Access Intimacy
Inclusive and Affirming Care Settings
Here’s how to create a neurodiversity inclusive environment in healthcare settings.
- Create a Neurodiversity Inclusive Environment
- Three Therapeutic Approaches to Supporting Autistic People in Healthcare Settings
- Autism in Care Settings: Managing Sensory Load
- Bodymind Affirmation
- Making Spaces Safer: Bodymind Affirmation and Access Intimacy
Common Obstacles
Here are common obstacles to bringing neurodiversity affirming practice to care settings.
- 14 Obstacles to DEI-AB and Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
- Perceptual Worlds and Sensory Trauma
- Sensory Trauma
- Sensory Hell
Training
Our allies at Autistic Collaboration Trust offer training on providing inclusive care.
