Resources from Prof Amanda Kirby

Prof. Kirby led an Education Café® on 21 June 2021 with the title “Rethinking Neurodiversity – moving from labels to people?”

This led to a discussion about how we have got used to needing and wanting a label that often focuses on the challenges and difficulties someone is experiencing, and can be biased against those with less of a voice or means to engage in society. We heard about the framing around neurodiversity (meaning that all our brains differ) and why taking a person-centred approach is more equitable. Prof Kirby shared some of the research evidence and also some experiences of children, young people and adults – explaining why this approach is important for society as a whole, and who keeps missing out if we don’t adopt it.

She has published a series of newsletters on LinkedIn relating to these topics:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurodiversity-lets-think-universal-design-prof-amanda-kirby/?trk=read_related_article-card_title
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurodiversity-lets-embrace-our-spiky-profiles-prof-amanda-kirby/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/upstream-equitable-approach-supporting-parents-children-kirby/

Prof Kirby’s doitprofiler explains her work, and has links to free resources:
https://doitprofiler.com/disabilityconfident-webinars/
Resources for parents and educators are on https://doitprofiler.com/survive-revive-thrive/
 and https://www.doitprofiler.com/dwp-webinars/

She has a forthcoming book about Neurodiversity in the Workplace:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neurodiversity-Work-Performance-Productivity-Neurodiverse/dp/1398600245/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Kirby+smith+neurodiversity&qid=1618479940&sr=8-1