What Is Neurodiversity?

Does your organization have an opinion on hiring to ensure neurodiversity? While diversity is something most organizations pay attention to (and even strive for), neurodiversity may not be on your radar yet.

Neurodiversity simply refers to the fact that there are variations (diversity) in our own brains. Neurodiversity is often discussed in reference to the neurodiversity movement or neurodiversity paradigm. The neurodiversity movement advocates that we look at differences in neurological characteristics (neurodiversity) as being simply the same as differences in physical characteristics—they represent different points within the normal human range of characteristics and experiences. In other words, conditions like autismⁱ represent simply a variation in how the brain functions; these types of differences are not an insufficiency.