CHAPTER ONE NEURODIVERSITY PRIMER
A Treasure in around Your Head
NEURODIVERSITY NARRATIVES
THE LANGUAGE OF ENRICHMENT
In 2020, in Aotearoa (New Zealand), a not-for-profit organization Te Pou launched an online dictionary of Te Reo Hāpai—the “language of enrichment” in Māori.1 This project of creating a nonstigmatizing language for neurodiversity, mental health, and disability was funded by the Ministry of Health and the Māori Language Commission. For several years, linguists, clinicians, and, most importantly, community representatives worked to ...
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