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Neurodiversity and employment display
Neurodiversity is a common and often overlooked aspect of human diversity. Neurodiverse people are also one of the last groups to be openly discriminated against, with UK legislation and business culture offering very limited protections to neurodiverse people that has left 84% of autistic people and many other neurodiverse people unemployed in the last survey. Once written off as the sufferers of developmental disability, attitudes are beginning slowly to change towards the neurodiverse, with several technology giants actively recruiting autistic people for certain roles, although this in itself risks perpetuating stereotypes and ignores the range of skills and aptitudes more prevalent among neurodiverse people as a whole.
This display seeks to raise awareness about what neurodiversity is, the diversity within neurodiversity, the challenges arbitrarily imposed by society on neurodiverse people, and how employers can adopt marginal changes to their business practices to make employment much more accessible to neurodiverse clients, levelling artificial barriers to employment and ensuring they recruit the very best candidate for each role.
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