Source: Te Pukenga
Otago Polytechnic | Te Pūkenga is hosting the 2023 Neuroability Symposium at its Dunedin Campus on 12-13 October.
Organised by the Otago Polytechnic Neurodiversity Community of Practice, and supported by Ako Aotearoa, the two-day event builds on the success of the inaugural symposium, held in November 2021, which brought together presenters for a half-day session of sharing stories and knowledge.
“Now, two years later, we are once again celebrating knowledge and experience of neurodiversity in tertiary education,” co-organiser Rachel van Gorp says.
“For many of us, this is a very personal space; our lived experience makes being different very real – and we welcome all those stories here at our symposium.”
Themes at this year’s symposium include:
and Superpowers of Neurodiverse learners/ākonga and educators/kaiako
Neurodiverse-friendly learning environments: face-to-face/kanohi ki te
kanohi and online/o te mahi ako tuihono.
function: challenges, accommodations and approaches that support learning
design for learning and accessibility, and how it relates to Neurodiversity.
