Neurodiversity Celebration Week at Deakin Library
This week marks Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a global initiative to challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions of neurodiverse minds. The week aims to raise awareness and transform perspectives within schools, universities and organisations toward neurodivergent folk.
At Deakin Library we recognise the unique strengths and contributions that neurodivergent individuals bring to research and academia. We’re excited to not only celebrate the remarkable achievements of neurodivergent scholars but also provide insight into their research.
To commemorate Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we’ve curated a comprehensive list of resources and events happening both at Deakin and within the library itself, designed to enrich our understanding and celebration of neurodiversity.
Neurodivergent reading and listening list
- The year I met my brain: a travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD by Matilda Boseley
- Late bloomer: how an autism diagnosis changed my life by Clem Bastow
- Neuroqueer heresies: notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities by Nick Walker
- Authoring autism: on rhetoric and neurological queerness by Melanie Yergeau
- Different, Not Less A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After by Chloé Hayden
- Unmasking autism: discovering the new faces of neurodiversity by Dr. Devon Price
- Laziness does not exist: a defense of the exhausted, exploited, and overworked by Dr. Devon Price
- My dyslexic perspective on academia – and how I found science communication by Grainne Cleary
- Being Autistic by Helen Kara
- Social understandings of autism and ADHD with Bec Flower
- Visual thinking: the hidden gifts of people who think in pictures, patterns and abstractions by Temple Grandin
Accessibility support at Deakin
Deakin also has a range of accessibility resources available at your campus library to help reduce some of the challenges of being neurodivergent.
- Reset Rooms
- Disability Resource Centre
- ADHD: Tips for Managing Your Study at Deakin | Students
- ADHD Support Group
- NAVIGATE: help in adjusting to uni for autistic students
- Language & Accessibility – Deakin Software Library
- Converting text to audio
- Deakin Disability Neurodivergency Association (DDNA)
You can talk to our friendly staff about more ways we can support you and discuss accessibility at the library.
Chloé Hayden visits Deakin
In celebration of Respect at Uni Week and Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Deakin is hosting Chloé Hayden — an award-winning speaker, actor, bestselling author, and disability rights activist. Diagnosed with autism and ADHD at the age of thirteen, Chloé captivates audiences worldwide, inspiring change and advocating for a future where everyone has an equal chance to thrive. You can register to attend the event online or in person via Eventbrite.