"You Can’t":
The Rights and Responsibilities of Neurodivergent Children
Bryson City Elementary School Building, Arlington Street, Bryson City, Swain County, NC. Courtesy of the Library of Congress
“Section 121a.5 Handicapped children (4) "Mentally retarded" means significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, which adversely affects a child's educational performance.”
Compiled by James G. Meade, Ph.D., The Rights of Parents and The Responsibilities of Schools, 1978, Courtesy of The Minnesota Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities
"Neurodiversity describes the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways; there is no one "right" way of thinking, learning, and behaving, and differences are not viewed as deficits."
Courtesy of Harvard Medical School
Kathleen Godfrey
Senior Individual Website
Process Paper Word Count: 500
Student-Composed Words: 1200
Multimedia: 1 minute 48 seconds