Students as Our Best Resources

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Dymond, K. (2025). Students as Our Best Resources. In Collaborative Strategies for Designing Neuroinclusive College Campuses (pp. 35-86). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-6350-9.ch002 · ISBN : 9798337363509

Publication date: 12 Aug 2025 Added to AutiHub: 7 Aug 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the impacts of ableism and neoliberalism on education and the potential for transformation within higher education. The author explores the creation of an elective course in a graduate teacher education program designed to challenge neuronormativity and to construct new possibilities for neurodiversity-affirming classrooms with teacher candidates. Student feedback and collegial support as part of an ongoing critical collaborative inquiry on accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (CAST, 2024) fundamentally improved the course. Impacts included greater community care, increased understanding of neuronormativity, greater comprehension of ableism, and recognizing learner experience and collective imagination as conduits of learning. This has implications for the capacities of faculty, staff, and institutions to seek Neurodivergent students' insights, and the ripple effect of improving accessibility for everyone. Collaborative models and supportive practices to aid this iterative, reflexive work and the importance of institutional support are discussed.

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Cited references
81
With a DOI
56
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
20
10 / 81 (12.3%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
19 / 81 (23.5%)
References with detected author names
72 / 81 (88.9%)
Without detected author names
9
Without a structured title
18
Without a stable identifier
18
References with raw author names still to review
7
References with external metadata lookup issues
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Author names detected in the cited bibliography
202
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202
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
8
40 / 202 (19.8%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 162 / 202 (80.2%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
13 / 202 (6.4%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 13 / 40 (32.5%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 11 / 199 (5.5%).
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