James P. Adams Library: Neurodiversity Week: March 17-21: Research

Neurodiversity

Diversity from Keywords for American Cultural Studies
"The positive connotations often adhering to the keyword “diversity”—a term commonly used to reference human differences broadly considered—arise from its importance in high-status discourses that have sought to discern the best management of human differences."
Neurodiversity from AllSides Red Blue Dictionary
"Proponents of neurodiversity use this term to refer to natural differences in the ways people experience and express their psychological worlds."
Neurodiversity from Mental Health Care Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
"At the group level, neurodiversity describes an inherently positive characteristic and a natural experience."
Neurodiversity from Wikipedia
"Neurodiversity is an approach to learning and mental health that argues various neurological conditions are the result of normal variations in the human genome."

Recommended databases:

ERIC
The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Using this version you may search ERIC alone, or combine it with other EBSCOhost databases.
PsycINFO
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines, such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
PubMed
PubMed comprises over 22 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

Streaming film collections:

Disability topics page - US Census Bureau
The Census Bureau collects data on disability primarily through the American Community Survey (ACS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).
StateData.info
Since the mid-1980s, the Institute for Community Inclusion has collected data from state intellectual and developmental disability agencies, the vocational rehabilitation system, and community organizations in order to describe trends in day and employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities.