PYC 7304 NEURODIVERSE & DIFFERENTLY ABLED PEOPLE (3)

This interdisciplinary seminar will investigate the emerging concepts of neurodiversity, and neurodivergence terms developed initially by autistic activists and self-advocates seeking to depathologize autism and other forms of neurological, mental, and cognitive difference. Neurodivergent refers to an individual with less typical cognitive variables such as Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, etc. Neurotypical relates to individuals of typical development and intellectual/cognitive functioning. This course emphasizes neurodiversity and its encounter with a world that has not been designed for them. Neuropsychological aspects of neurodiversity will also be presented in a non-pathologizing manner.