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Neurodiversity Works

·Nov 14, 2019

Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity

Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity won the WPP Atticus Award 2020 in the Creativity with Purpose category. You can read a exerpt here. Amy Walker is an autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic inclusion and diversity professional and speaker. She started the campaign Neurodiversity Works in 2018 after benefitting from Ambitious about…

Autism

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Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity
Why Neurodiversity Works for Creativity
Autism

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Neurodiversity Works

·Apr 15, 2019

Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap

I dropped out of school due my autism, mental health conditions and difficulties with friendships and bullying in year eight — and have been playing catch up ever since. Amy Walker is an Autistic advocate and founder of the Neurodiversity Works campaign Originally published in the Huffington Post Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic and yet just 16% of autistic adults are in full time paid employment. …

Autism

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Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap
Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap
Autism

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Feb 15, 2019

Graduating from Scope for Change

Amy Walker is a neurodiverse, autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic campaigner, who has been on the Scope for Change campaign training programme since 2018. In this article, she describes the programme’s graduation ceremony and the campaigns that were talked about during the event. On the 14th of February, the #ScopeforChange campaigners…

Disability

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Graduating from Scope for Change
Graduating from Scope for Change
Disability

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Nov 26, 2018

A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence

This time last year, if you had told me that I would be speaking publicly on a regular basis, frankly I would not have believed you. I had just finished a two week Autism Exchange internship in the Civil Service, which had filled me with hope and helped to prepare me for work. …

Autism

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A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence
A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence
Autism

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Oct 10, 2018

Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience

Yesterday I spoke at A New Direction’s event, Partnerships, Co-production and Compromise. I shared my experience as a young creative, finding my way through an educational system that was inaccessible to an autistic person from a challenging background, and the help I’ve had from Create Jobs, Balance CIC, Ambitious about Autism, Autistica, The Prince’s’ Trust, Hillcroft College, Scope and Time to Change in accessing opportunities to thrive.

Mental Health

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Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience
Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience
Mental Health

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Sep 7, 2018

Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme

A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been chosen as a #ScopeForChange campaigner. I had been having a tough few months, not getting far with job applications and suddenly a bunch of opportunities arrived at once: the three month internship at m/SIX through the Autism…

Autism

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Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme
Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme
Autism

7 min read


Jun 1, 2018

Kanye West comes out as bipolar. Here’s why it matters

You would have to go far to find someone who hasn’t heard about Kanye West’s recent antics. A flurry of tweets over the past few months created a furore bigger than any Kanye has experienced in the past. On previous album rollouts we’ve seen what some people have described as…

Kanye West

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Kanye West comes out as bipolar. Here’s why it matters
Kanye West comes out as bipolar. Here’s why it matters
Kanye West

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Neurodiversity Works

·Apr 6, 2018

Supporting young people with autism gain Civil Service experience

Originally published in edited form on the Civil Service Blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 — Autistic people have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. My special interest is current affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme was running a placement in the Civil Service, I jumped at the chance! At this point I…

Government

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Government

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Mar 29, 2018

Getting my Autism Diagnosis

Originally published in edited form on the Ambitious About Autism blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 — My name is Amy, and I am a female on the Autistic spectrum. My parents began suspecting I was different early on. I learned everything about certain subjects, but I wasn’t that interested in playing with dolls or other children. When I did play, I would act like a director…

Autism

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Getting my Autism Diagnosis
Getting my Autism Diagnosis
Autism

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Published in

Neurodiversity Works

·Mar 19, 2018

My experience of the Autism Exchange Civil Service internship with Ambitious about Autism

Originally published at the Ambitious about Autism blog in November 2017 — Autistic people tend to have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. Well, my special interest is public affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme would be hosting a placement in the Civil Service, I jumped at the chance! …

Autism

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My experience of the Autism Exchange Civil Service internship with Ambitious about Autism
My experience of the Autism Exchange Civil Service internship with Ambitious about Autism
Autism

3 min read

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Neurodivergent campaigner writing about life on the spectrum www.amyaspie.com / www.linkedin.com/in/amywalkerphoto/ / www.neurodiversityworks.uk

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