Neurodiversity in urbanism – Greater Auckland [Video]

This is a guest post by Shaun Baker. It originally appeared on his blog Multimodal Adventures and is shared here by kind permission.

A necessary component of creating an inclusive and equitable city is accessibility. Designing our cities with accessibility in mind is important so everyone, particularly our disabled communities, can access and thrive in our built environments without experiencing any barriers.

While significant progress has been made to improve our places in our cities to meet the needs of those with physical, hearing and visual disabilities, it’s also important to make changes in the way we design our cities to accommodate those with invisible disabilities as well, which includes neurodiversity.

For those who aren’t familiar with the terms neurodiversity, or neurodivergent, they refer to those living with neurological and developmental conditions such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and dyspraxia.

Neurodivergent people’s brains function differently from those who are neurotypical, which affects the way they learn, process and behave. As a result, they can experience difficulties …