Charles Darwin University has established a Neurodiverse Hub to better support the experience of students and staff with neurodivergent backgrounds and foster inclusivity on campus. CDU has teamed up with Untapped Holdings to create the Neurodiversity Hub to provide resources ...
More »Curtin, boosting employment for teens with autism, seeks collaborators
Despite Hollywood's (increasing) portrayal of brilliantly successful autistic savants - from Rain Man to The Good Doctor - the reality of employment for those with autism is the opposite. ABS data suggests just 40 per cent of people with autism work, compared to 83 ...
More »The fight for free speech: the culturally diverse case
Geoffrey Miller is worried about academic freedoms. As a self-identified “aspie” and “nerd”, Miller has already laid out the case for us to consider the effect free speech policies can have on those academics and students who are ‘neurodivergent’ or ...
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Would Sir Isaac Newton flourish in an academic career were he alive today? The great man was said to have “an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression”. Imagine then ...
More »UWA makes autism research breakthrough
Though autism is a complex, neurodevelopmental disorder, UWA researchers have found it can potentially be assessed at face-value. In conjunction with colleagues from the Telethon Kids Institute and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, UWA research associates Syed Zulqarnain Gilani and Diana Tan ...
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