Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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that deficient verse different paradigm, you know.
You still read the academic research around a continuum of neurodiversity and it's not neurodiversity, it's deficiency.
And
You look at a set of practices in the systems that uh and professions that feed that.
It's a uh a set of practices around remediating the problem in the person opposed to advocating for changing the context.
And that's holding us back.
You know it is.
You know, when when Dave Flink and I first embarked on on eye to eye back in the day, and this is well over 20 years ago, this is this is you know 20, 23 years ago.
We were we were criticized, like shamed directly by the sort of LD establishment because the the message we were trying to bring kids is, you know what, you're different and you should fight for your right to be different.
Uh and and it was so entrenched in in the community that you got to use the word learning disabled.
And if you did if you didn't, then you were a pariah.
Now, is that changing a little bit?
Sure, but as you rightfully pointed out, it's changing too slowly.
So the inflection point is to understand that neurodiversity is an essential part of the human condition.
We have entrepreneurs and artists, and not despite their differences, but because of them.
And it's like biological diversity.
We need the continuum of species to have a healthy, healthy ecosystem.
We need the same.
With the continuum of brains and bodies.
Now, the second challenge is public policy.
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