When you celebrate Disability Pride, you acknowledge and include everyone equally while teaching others to do the same. You also increase knowledge and feelings of psychological safety for all present, which are both paramount to running and sustaining a successful business.
Intersectionality helps us better understand the complexity of human identities, highlighting the importance of recognizing and respecting diversity in all its forms.
Our colleagues from Specialisterne Italy and Spain, Fabrizio Acanfora and Montse Bizarro, share some personal reflections on the importance of Autistic Pride Day.
Both mental health support and making work more accessible for neurodivergent employees can be achieved by doing less.
Your autistic employee (or co-worker) may come across as a “know-it-all”, but that’s likely not their intention.
Has this ever happened in your office? You’re sitting in the meeting room, going over the projects to be completed for the month, and that one employee who always raises a question, an objection, or points out how something could go wrong–is at it again?
Explore the neurodivergent experience across the cultural dimension of masculinity and femininity.
Have you ever had an autistic employee go from being articulate and verbose in their speech to barely being able to form a sentence in certain situations? This is known as situational mutism.
National cultures, along with many other levels of culture, such as ethnic, industry, or organizational, can shape the experience of neurodivergence and impact important occupational and life opportunities.
