About Learning Pathways
A learning pathway is a route taken by a learner through a range of pages, modules, lessons, and courses to build knowledge progressively.
Pathways don’t need to be traversed in order. Pick what looks interesting. Choose your own adventure.
Learning Pathways
Understanding neurodiversity and disability justice means stepping into unfamiliar stories and frameworks. In “Learning Pathways,” we guide you through experiential and educational journeys that unpack everything from monotropism and systemic power to inclusive education and healthcare. These pathways are not merely informational — they are invitations to walk in our shoes, challenge assumptions, and grow in understanding at your own pace.
This website is an encyclopedia of disability and difference.
Learn about spiky profiles, school-induced anxiety, neuronormative domination, obstacles to neurodiversity, behaviorism, the double empathy problem, monotropism, the neurodivergent umbrella, the neurodiversity Smorgasbord, and more.
Learn about yourself.
Learn about your family.
Learn about your friends, co-workers, patients, and students.
We offer validation for thirsty souls yearning to be seen, heard, and understood.
We offer words on your behalf, ones which call out to include you.
We offer community and belonging.
When you or your kid is diagnosed as neurodivergent, almost all of the professional advice you get from education and healthcare is steeped in deficit ideology and the pathology paradigm.
There are better ways.
Learn more with our Autism, Education, and Healthcare Learning Pathways.
Autism Pathway
Autistic? Think you might be autistic? Got autistic friends, family, patients, clients, co-workers? Here are some pathways through our website to learn about autism and autistic ways of being.
Education Pathway
What might education look like in a system in which the acceptance, inclusion, and accommodation of every sort of bodymind represents an unquestioned baseline?
This pathway guides us through the ableist reality of mainstream education into progressive, neuroaffirming education that scales from home to entire school districts.
Healthcare Pathway
Our advocacy for neurodiversity affirming practice in healthcare seeks to improve delivery of healthcare to neurodivergent and disabled consumers. We seek to improve health practitioner competency through education and training programs and bring attention to the inadequacies of care in order to advance systemic change.
We see lots of neurodiversity-lite solutions applied to healthcare that fail to advance systemic change. We’re here for real structural change steeped in neurodiversity and disability justice.
Join us on our healthcare learning pathway. Learn how to adopt neurodiversity affirming practice that meets our needs into care settings.
Reframing Our Ways of Being Pathway
Not having the vocabulary to describe yourself and your loved ones is a tragedy. Our story of reframing disability and difference starts on our front page and continues via the “Continue” button at the bottom of each page in the journey.
Those who work their way through this pathway will have the understanding of neurodiversity, disability, neurodivergent learning, and neurodivergent ways of being needed to become the allies we need.
This pathway includes lots of art, music, poetry, and more from our community.
Take the journey. Reframe, and gain vocabulary for you and yours.
- Authenticity Is Our Purest Freedom
- Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.
- Learning Pathways: Take a Walk in Our Shoes
- Our Story: Challenging the Norm and Changing the Narrative
- Take Them Together: Neurodiversity and Disability Justice
- Our Umbrella: It Is Time to Celebrate Our Interdependence!
- Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives
- Happy Flappy: Let’s Bolster Against Stress and Pass Bodily Survival Knowledge Down
- An Encyclopedia of Disability and Difference
Systems of Power Pathway
Our “Systems of Power” learning pathway will help you recognize and name the systems of power.
