🧠🚫 "Neurodiversity-Lite: When 'Experts' Lead the Way" – a critical look at the new "Professional Certification in the Fundamentals of Neurodiversity." The authors fail to truly embrace neurodiversity and sideline the very voices the certification aims to represent.
😬 Autistic and other neurodivergent individuals are merely quoted in the modules, not actively involved in shaping this certification.
😨 Worse still, the language used is disrespectful, stigmatizing, and dehumanizing, undermining the dignity of those it discusses.
🙁 Moreover, key fundamentals crucial for such a certification are glaringly absent.
📢 It's time professionals demand more than just surface-level understanding and tokenistic gestures for the people we purport to serve - especially for a "Certification in the Fundamentals of Neurodiversity." 🙄
Real change comes from listening to and valuing neurodivergent voices! Therapist Neurodiversity Collective challenges these half-measures and advocates for genuine, respectful inclusion. 📣❤ - Julie, AuSLP
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