Joseph Soares is a former advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and a managing partner at HR firm IBPROM Corp. In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizational leaders continually ...

There is a tremendous amount of untapped talent among those in the autism spectrum community who stand ready and able to contribute to the workforce. Thanks to an increasing number of companies who ...

BYU Students connect through the ADHD Club. The BYU Accessibility Center provides resources for Neurodivergent students .(BYU Accessibility) In the education system, neurodiversity can be a roadblock ...

Your organization is “all about” creativity and innovation. You believe that diversity enhances creativity. But does your definition of diversity include embracing neurodiversity? Neurodiversity ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about emerging employment structures, policy and law. Earlier this month, the annual Disability:IN conference, the major ...

Employers are increasingly emphasizing their diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts as they recognize the value of creating a workforce that reflects the customers they serve. However, when ...

In the wake of a nationwide labor shortage and the restructuring of the workplace, employers have an opportunity to expand their DEI initiatives to include less visible populations. Processing Content ...

It is estimated that between 15 and 20% of the global population is neurodiverse. This includes up to 10% of those with dyslexia, 6% of those with dyspraxia, 5% of those with ADHD, and 1-2% of those ...

Our current thinking about mental health is still disproportionately influenced by what's known as the medical model, which conceptualizes cognitive differences in terms of disability or disease.

Neurodiversity first emerged as a concept in the 1990s, arising from discussions in an autistic-run online group (Dekker, 2020). While it has taken many years of advocacy to bring the notion to the ...

"Neurodiversity is the idea that differences in learning, thinking, and behavior for people with neurodevelopmental disorders, like autism and ADHD, are just that – differences – rather than mental ...