OPINION: Want to Help College Students With Special Needs to Succeed? First, Stop Saying ‘Disadvantage’
December 7, 2017
By: Peter Eden
Source: The Hechinger Report
When most people think about diversity, they tend to mainly consider race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and nationality.
I would like to believe that as a society most people agree that strengths accompany such diversity.
That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations.
The rationale for such efforts is not purely symbolic. It is not a box to check off which shows that the organization “gets it.” This rationale is due to the fact that organizations often perform best when made up of those with different voices, different perspectives and different lenses.
There exists another example of diversity that is often overlooked, but which is finally gaining more visibility and attention in higher education and in various industry sectors: neurodiversity.
Neurodiversity…