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The neurodiversity paradigm is a framework for understanding human brain function that considers the diversity within ... who coined the terms in the year 2000, ...
Kassiane A. Asasumasu (née Sibley; born 1982) is an American autism rights activist who is credited for coining several terms related to the Neurodiversity Movement, including neurodivergent, neurodivergence, and caregiver benevolence.
The term first appeared in print in the September 1998 article Neurodiviersity [318] in The Atlantic, by American journalist Harvey Blume. The term neurodivergent was later coined in 2000 [319] by American neurodiversity activist Kassiane Asasumasu. [320]
The term "neurodiversity" applies to the entire population; both neurodivergent people and neurotypical people are included. Neurodivergent people are considered to have brain differences — not ...
In 2016, she published the book Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea. [11] Singer has distanced herself from the expansion of the term neurodiversity outside of her original focus on "high functioning" autism awareness when coining the term, stating: “I was very clear in my thesis that I was only talking about Asperger’s." [12]
Nick Walker is an American scholar, author, webcomic creator, and aikido teacher, known for coining the term neuroqueer, establishing the foundations of neuroqueer theory, and contributing to the development of the neurodiversity paradigm. She is a professor at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. [1] It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy, particularly concerning gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability, and challenges those constructions. [2]
A decade after Aileen Lee coined the term “unicorn,” she knows that the term has taken on a life of its own—and is imperfect. “It’s an ephemeral word, it’s a point in time,” she told me.