"...For some, school is a traumatic experience filled with too much noise, too little interest, and not enough people who “get them.”
This was my experience throughout my education, and continues to be true in my adult life. I believe that all humans are neurodiverse and I work to create solutions in my high school programmes to empower individual expression. If nature's strategy is biodiversity, why do we persist with standardisation in education? Thank you for sharing your work. It's encouraging to hear about others who are working in this space.
Thank you for sharing your story! Yes, I absolutely agree that nature intended for neurodiversity and we have to make education more dynamic to meet student needs and interests.💜❤️🩵💚
I wholeheartedly agree with your overall framing of this as a problem that arises from education systems, rather than children. One question: I’m curious about your description of students being an “increasingly neurodiverse generation of learners.” Is neurodivergence among children actually increasing? Or is the identification of neurodivergent children improving? In the book ‘Neurotribes’ this ‘increase’ is challenged as reflective of better identification, not actually more neurodivergent individuals.
Hi Ella! From my perspective as a child psychologist, we are better identifying neurodivergence and the definition of autism in particular has widened over the years.
Love everything about this, Emily!
"...For some, school is a traumatic experience filled with too much noise, too little interest, and not enough people who “get them.”
This was my experience throughout my education, and continues to be true in my adult life. I believe that all humans are neurodiverse and I work to create solutions in my high school programmes to empower individual expression. If nature's strategy is biodiversity, why do we persist with standardisation in education? Thank you for sharing your work. It's encouraging to hear about others who are working in this space.
Thank you for sharing your story! Yes, I absolutely agree that nature intended for neurodiversity and we have to make education more dynamic to meet student needs and interests.💜❤️🩵💚
I wholeheartedly agree with your overall framing of this as a problem that arises from education systems, rather than children. One question: I’m curious about your description of students being an “increasingly neurodiverse generation of learners.” Is neurodivergence among children actually increasing? Or is the identification of neurodivergent children improving? In the book ‘Neurotribes’ this ‘increase’ is challenged as reflective of better identification, not actually more neurodivergent individuals.
Hi Ella! From my perspective as a child psychologist, we are better identifying neurodivergence and the definition of autism in particular has widened over the years.