Neurodiversity Foundations
Four Course Series
Explore the essentials of neurodiversity in the context of employment.
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Format
Online Asynchronous
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Length
Approx. 4-5 hours
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Audience
Broadly applicable; this course is for anyone who wants to learn more about neurodiversity, especially in the context of employment, in order to contribute to a culture of neuro-inclusion.
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Objectives & Outcomes
This Foundations series includes a collection of 4 individual courses that take you from a foundational understanding of neurodiversity to tools and techniques that enable you to apply that new knowledge day-to-day in the workplace.
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Courses in this Series
1: What is Neurodiversity?
2: Neurodiversity Distinctions
3: How Differences Might Show Up
4: How to Apply Your Learning to Scenarios
Courses in this series
Course 1: What is Neurodiversity?
Learn why the topic of neurodiversity is so important, especially in the context of accessing employment opportunities. Content focuses on foundational information, including terminology, how evaluations work, and grounding learners in a “strengths-based” perspective about neurodiversity.
Outcomes & Learning Objectives
This course teaches...
Terminology and vocabulary, including what neurodiversity means and related terms like neurodivergent and neurotypical.
The types of brain functions that experts evaluate to determine someone’s cognitive profile - and to assess neurodivergence.
About the barriers neurodiverse people encounter during the employment search and, once they succeed, the challenges they face in the workplace that are often related to their behavioral and cognitive differences
Course 2: Neurodiversity Distinctions
This second course in the series is designed to provide an overview of three of the most common neurodiverse profiles: autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. The idea is to dive into these labels with enough information that you understand their distinctions - before shifting away from specific diagnoses and labels to focus on behaviors.
Outcomes & Learning Objectives
This course teaches…
The distinctions (and overlap) between autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
About the 3 most common neurodiverse cognitive profiles through quotes, lived experience, and behavioral, medical, and psychological models.
Course 3: How Differences Might Show Up at Work
This third course in the series describes behavioral categories related to neurodivergence. The 4-category framework introduced here is meant (only) as a tool to help learners be more aware of the different ways neurodivergence can be a factor in another person’s outward behavior – behavior that could otherwise be misunderstood, confusing, or judged.
Outcomes & Learning Objectives
This course teaches...
By exploring 5 real-life, workplace scenarios where neurodivergence could be a factor.
A 4-category framework to help you interpret - in real time - the ways that neurodivergence could be impacting someone’s behavior.
Additional context (and the why) about the behaviors included in the framework.
Course 4: How to Apply Your Learning to Scenarios
How to Apply Your Learning to Scenarios is focused on the application of the knowledge you gained in the previous courses and lessons.
Outcomes & Learning Objectives
This course teaches…
Our recommended “order of operations” strategy for how to approach challenging behaviors like those described in the scenarios from the previous lesson.
What the implementation of the above strategy could look like in digging deeper into problems or issues and then generating potential solutions.
