Blog from Dr Annemarie O'Dwyer
Embracing neurodiversity…
This blog provides suggestions and guidance to aid the further education sector on how to accommodate its neurodivergent teaching professionals, and promote a neuro-inclusive workplace.
Where are all the neurodivergent teaching professionals?
This piece summarizes the intent and purpose of ‘neurodiverse insider’. |t proposes, if education is to be truly inclusive then more needs to be done to accommodate neurodivergent teaching professionals.
Disclosure – how to encourage an open and pragmatic approach…
If a neurodivergent teacher chooses to disclose, it is often not a one-time event, and often they enter into a ‘cycle of disclosure’. Read on for some suggestions on how the process can be made that little bit easier.
To declare, or not to declare. That is the question.
Should a teacher declare they are neurodivergent? There is no simple right or wrong answer here, often the decision to declare is influenced by a persons personal and professional experiences of how others have responded to their neurodivergence.