An Insider Approach to Designing for Neurodivergent Learners (and How it Benefits Everyone)—a webinar I gave for ELB Learning—is now live on YouTube! This was an action-packed hour, and I didn’t have time to answer all the questions this super involved group came up with, so the amazing Kasey May followed up with me and…
For most of my career, I’ve been in learning and development, and I’ve spent a lot of time over the decades thinking, writing, and speaking about technology. Occasionally that has meant expressing concerns. And when I’ve done that, I used to crack a small joke about how I’m not a Luddite, to assure my audience…
The first time I spoke publicly about neuroaccessibility and neuroinclusion, I asked the attendees, “Who do you think of when you think of autism?” I was expecting most of the answers to be Rainman, a character who—for better or worse—had an outsized effect on my generation’s perception of autism. But to my surprise, one attendee…
In the first article of this series, we covered the DEI component of making your workplace and learning initiatives more neurodivergent-friendly: recognizing the positives of neurodivergence and how to represent neurodivergence authentically and respectfully in language and visuals. In this article, we’ll start to cover neurodivergence from an accessibility perspective: how to rethink the design…
I had a neurodivergent colleague who was fired within their first six weeks at a new job. The job was well within their abilities, they loved the company, and they were performing exceptionally well in some ways… but not so much in others. It was emphasized to them during the termination process that it was…
This past weekend, I was binge-watching Good Omens with my kids when I was struck by this moment between Crowley and Aziraphale. Crowley has some well reasoned issues with The Great Plan for the universe, and Aziraphale is trying to dissuade him from asking them, sensing that Crowley might get into trouble. But Crowley takes…
This article was originally published by the Learning Guild in May 2022. * Please note that I am no longer on Twitter. I am available on LinkedIn and using the contact form on this site. The learning and development world has seen a much-needed focus on designing for marginalized populations in the past few years, both in terms…