The center’s “Autistic Strengths” Autism Acceptance Month social media campaign celebrated neurodiversity by highlighting the talents and strengths of autistic individuals. Community members were asked to share their perspectives on autism from a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming lens.
In celebration of Autism Acceptance Month, on April 12, 2023, keynote speaker Trabian Shorters presented “Asset-Framing® for Equity & Autism”. A New York Times bestselling author and former vice president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Shorters shared how Asset-Framing® defines individuals by their aspirations and contributions, equips communities to have greater social impact, and makes stronger cases for equity and systems change. Asset framing can help reshape the narrative about autism, as Duke Center for Autism director Geraldine Dawson, PhD, further explained in a blog piece for Psychology Today.
