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.
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.