REAL Conversations Speaker Series

Description

REAL Conversations is a speaker series highlighting expert guests around a range of topics. Formatted to invite audience participation as an enhancement to the conversation hosted on stage, this Series provides a curiosity-driven space to listen and inquire more deeply in community. 

In this session, Jen Oliver hosts a panel discussion on neurodiversity through the lens that people who think outside of a “neurotypical” blueprint are an under-recognized resource. We will grapple with common misperceptions that individuals who experience neurological and developmental conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia, autism, etc. need to simply be tolerated, fixed, or accommodated. This topic requires more nuanced questions like, “What if the ‘typical’ learner is actually a smaller subset in a sea of diversely wired brains? And, how would our educational options, work environments, and overall approach to one another change, if we operated accordingly...” 

There are incredible options emerging to fill the void that still exists in many of our schools and workplaces. Our panelists will include experts in the arenas of education, neurodevelopment, psychology and most importantly, lived experience. Join the conversation; tickets are on sale at the Harris Center box office or online at harriscenter.net.