Are students with special needs simply neurodiverse and, if so, how does this change how we work with them and try to help them? They may not learn and/or interact with others like most of the rest of us, but many have abilities associated with creativity and concentration. Aaron Rothstein in his article Mental Disorder or Neurodiversity in The New Atlantis discusses neurological conditions and the norm and calls on us not to worry about labels, but instead to learn how to help everyone do their best with what they have been given. This is a very interesting article in which you will discover that being “normal” is, as Rothstein says, “a fluid term.”
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