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Disability Justice: Neurodiversity Reading List

Communicating Across the Neuroverse

Communicating Across the Neuroverse (Professional Development Day 2024)
Much appreciation to Jenée Stanfield, MFA, Entry & Support Specialist at The Hub: Federal Way Higher Education Center, for generously sharing the slides from her 2024 Professional Development Day presentation.

This presentation provides recommendations and strategies for implementing restorative practices in a neurodiverse environment.

Neurodiversity & Communication: Books and eBooks

The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Call Number: 305.908 P614f 2022

ISBN: 1551528916

Main Collection -- 3rd Floor
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Call Number: 362.4 P614c 2018

ISBN: 9781551527390

Main Collection--3rd Floor
Also available online through EBSCO eBook Collection

KCLS Online Library Partnership
The Highline College Library has partnered with the King County Library System (KCLS) to provide free and automatic access to the entire KCLS Online Library to every Highline College employee and student.

Workplace Neurodiversity Rising: Rethinking Workplace Policy & Culture to Include People With Diverse Brains, Creating Spaces Where Both Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Team Members Can Shine by Lyric Rivera
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia
Self-care for People with ADHD: 100+ Ways to Recharge, De-Stress, and Prioritize You! by Sasha Hamdani
Dirty Laundry: Why Adults with ADHD are So Ashamed, and What We Can Do to Help by Richard Pink and Roxanne Emery

Neurodiversity & Communication: Articles, Websites, and More

NeuroDivergent Rebel's Substack
Substack from Lyric Rivera: Trans Autistic/ADHD, educator, consultant, artist, & best selling author of the business ethics book Workplace NeuroDiversity Rising.
10 Common Autistic Social Customs for Neurotypicals to Learn: A neurodiversity-affirming view of social skills (Psychology Today)
Podcast: ADHD and shame (Dr. Kojo's story)
ADHD treatment and strategies helped Dr. Kojo cope with his daydreaming and procrastination. But he wanted to do more. Today, he's a nurse practitioner who connects with millions of followers on TikTok and other social media, fighting the shame around ADHD and mental health, and having conversations that build people up.
Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue
2021 Disability Visibility Project post from Jane Shi
The Intersection Of Race And Neurodivergence: “The Black Dyspraxic” Shares On Overcoming Barriers (Forbes)
Autism, Human Connection and the ‘Double Empathy’ Problem (Scientific American)
Autie-Biographical Comics from Theresa Scovil
Comics about autistic adulting
Employees With Autism Find New Ways to Navigate the Workplace (New York Times)
Parents of Black autistic sons share their stories after tragic encounters with police (ABC News)