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Why, the neuroclusive project?

©2022 - Referencing from a book called, "Inclusivity and Equality" in Performance Training, edited by Petronilla Whitfield. Paragraphs one and two, explain what was written below, about how important this approach is needed, untouched and how others are not aware of it.

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Quoted from ibid, this is specific quote is speaking about how and why this type of workshop is needed. Because regardless of whether you have neurodivergent or learning difference issues or not. It is impossible for anybody, a teacher or a professional person to teach one approach for all, as everyone should take the responsibility for their own methods when studying, learning or teaching. Because as humans we learn better as a pack or from others, rather than doing it alone. 

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“This bi-ability label aims to bypass the negative deficit model of disability, focus on the positive abilities, yet also encapsulate the ‘internal emotional struggle that come from sitting in both camps and not truly being comfortable in either’ (ibid: 257).”

From my own experiences, as a performer, drama facilitator, and as a person. I not only experienced things from what I knew from other people in an educational setting and within my own life, but I have also experienced things myself because I have dyslexia and dyspraxia. 

With the whole neurodiversity scope, no (as I often say) Learning difference', 'LD' or 'Obstacle gifts' are the same. Because we all lived with the idea of someone either being completely 'disabled' (mainly in a physical sense, rather than mental) or someone who is 'abled'. This is what I have experienced and many other people in the world also, where they feel like, they are in a grey area. 

This is where I have heard and seen for myself; teachers, parents, professional people, and the such like, fall under. Where they expect a student to know things quickly or not at all. If they have a bad session with a student, the words that are often said are, "Oh my god they will not listen," "They have to apply themselves," or the most hurtful thing, that has even been said to me, when I was younger, "They will not amount to anything." Those words do cut deep and for myself personally, I had carried that around for years. Because the old ideas and thoughts where people, still think there is a clear line between someone who is disabled or not. Because if someone is disabled, the professional person, feels they need to do everything and assume the student cannot do anything for themselves. But if the student shows a slight bit of being so-called 'abled' they often leave the student until they ask for help, when the student in question could have struggled with asking for help and in turn could hurt their progress and education. Then, unfortunately, it turns into this cycle of behavior, which is often stereotypical from the old archaic views of someone who is so-called, 'disabled' or they have a 'learning difference', where they could not show as someone who is disabled.

Years ago. I started to find out about text to speech technology and how it could help people who are dyslexic, I am thinking, "Huh?" So I experimented with this idea, coming across apps, low-cost methods, etc. Over time, I started to notice I was getting confident with reading and learning because I felt I had the confidence, ability, and responsibility that I know I can conquer any educational things, whether if I wanted to go back to university or anything that involved a lot of words and contexts that I didn't really understand. As long as I felt I can ask for someone's help, then that would be great.

This website will talk about apps and low-cost methods, which will be recommended not only for people who are of the neurodiverse community but also for anyone else who wants this information, as I feel this is very much needed in a world that is often is neurotypical and who still fully don't know what it means to of this community. You don't have to have neurodiversity in order to join or use these apps and methods, as they are for anyone and everyone. Because it's all about spreading awareness, the more you know, everyone will know more about these things, where it doesn't have to be 'a thing' where it's not seen as something that is yelled out from the rooftops but help for someone who could be within the scale of their own physical or learning difference, so no one can be left out or feel any different and to act like they feel they need to be in certain criteria, in order to get help or not.

As I got to know the subject of 'neurodiversity', I only thought it was about people who have 'learning differences' when there are many other people in the world, who are seen as so-called 'abled' and they have obstacle gifts as well, for example, where some people have English as a second language, and there are many people with other complexes, real obstacle gifts for them. So that totally busts the myth that 'neurodiversity' is only about one lot of community of people. when it is literally about everyone. 

That is a nice thought to think where, no one can feel left out, or feel insignificant or any better than anyone. Because in the neurodiversity world, it's not about black or white, being 'abled' or not, it's about showing your strongest abilities and letting yourself shine in whatever you are doing, because we are all the same in so many ways, more than we ever know.

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