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Chico State celebrates neurodiversity with 2022 awareness symposium
by Jessica Shippelhoute
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Chico State students welcome table for the 2022 Northern California Neurodiversity & Disability Symposium at CSU. (KRCR, Jessica Shippelhoute.)
CHICO, CALIF. —

Chico State hosted this year’s 2022 Neurodiversity & Disability Symposium to support and advocate for neurodivergent individuals in the community. This is the first year of hosting the symposium that Chico State was able to broaden the conference from an autism-only focused symposium to one built around a broader discussion related to neurodivergence in the Northstate.

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The symposium kicked off at 8:45 AM with featured speaker and writer Steve Silberman, who talked about what the term “Neurodiversity” means. Silberman hopes that this growing movement of awareness for neurodiversity will help frame autism and other conditions like dyslexia and ADHD as “natural human variation[s] rather than disorders.”

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