Neurodiversity
Embrace Neurodiversity
Upcoming Event:
A Life Beyond Reason and the Life Worth Living
When: Wednesday, February 26 at 4PM
Where: In Rita Hollings Science Center, Room 102
To find the Rita Hollings Science Center use this link: https://cofc.edu/visit/campusmaps.php
Rita Hollings Science Center is on the North East corner of Coming and George Street.
Chris Gabbard will discuss his recently published book, A Life Beyond Reason: A Father’s Memoir (Beacon Press, 2019). A scholar of British Enlightenment literature, he describes the radically mismanaged delivery of his son at a major medical institution, resulting in H.I.E. (hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy). Medically complex and profoundly impaired, the boy, August, lived for fourteen years. Gabbard will speak about the paradoxically luminous consequences of this catastrophe.
Shortly after the birth, his interests veered into Disability Studies, and eventually he began to question Socrates’s dictum that “The unexamined life is not worth living,” asking himself for the first time if this supposedly universal truth was true. His son would never be able to examine his life; did this mean that his life was not worth living? Because he knew his son well, he became aware that he had insights into the question that others did not have. Ultimately, he came to recognize the fetishizing of intelligence that grew out of the Enlightenment and the invidious consequences of this fetishizing for neurodiverse people. Gabbard will speak about the realizations emerging from life with his son.
If you require an accommodation to participate in this event,
please contact the Office of Institutional Diversity at oid@cofc.edu or
at 843 953 5079 by February 19, 2020.
The lecture is: Wednesday, February 26 at 4PM
Location is: Rita Hollings Science Center, Room 102
Please use this link to the campus - to see where Rita Hollings Science Center is located: https://cofc.edu/visit/campusmaps.php
Rita Hollings Science Cener is on the North East corner of Coming and George Street.
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Learn more about CofC's Neurodiversity Initiative!
- Calendar of Events with descriptions and pdf's of each presentation
- The Committee Members and Supporters
- The Videos and Photos and pdf's of each event and presentation
What is neurodiversity?
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Basically, it's the idea that people whose brains are wired differently from the "norm" should be embraced and celebrated!
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While none of us is normal, this effort has focused on people with autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, health impairments, and psychological disabilities.
- The Creative Art works were displayed through Oct 31st in the Stern Center on the wall to the left of the Food Court entrance doors.
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See the events in our Videos and Photography and Calendar of Events
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Meet those who made these events happen in our The Committee Members and Supporters
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Please Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/cofcneuro/
Please Note:
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events for all individuals to engage fully. To be respectful of those with allergies and environmental sensitivities, we ask that you please refrain from wearing strong fragrances. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility at our upcoming events, please contact: Anne Osowski, 843 953 1431, osowskia@cofc.edu. Thank You.
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It takes all kinds of minds to make the world go ’round –
including the kind that work differently from what’s considered “the norm.”
"CofC Neurodiversity Initiative Seeks to Open Minds" - read this article from
The College Today
