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Introducing Neurodiversity For Dummies

'Neurodiversity For Dummies' (Wiley) is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick and easy guide is perfect for anyone needing to know more about neurodiversity. And that’s all of us―because recent estimates say that 15-20% of the world’s population have some form of neurodivergence. Your life is filled with neurodivergent people that you know and love, whether you realize it yet or not.

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Authored by Pivot Neurodiversity founder John Marble, along with Khushboo Chabria, and Ranga Jayaraman.

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Author Bios

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John Marble is the founder of Pivot Neurodiversity, an organization empowering companies to modernize recruitment, hiring, and culture to better support neurodivergent employees. A writer and speaker on innovation, workplace culture, and neurodiversity, he has served as an advisor to various policy makers and as an aide to two U.S. Presidents. Multiply neurodivergent,

 

John credits his ADHD, autism, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia as gifting him with a curiosity and passion to understand the world around him. This has led him to build a career centered on understanding and valuing the diverse perspectives and experiences of others. He is committed to promoting neurodiversity in a way that fosters mutual understanding among everyone involved – ensuring that neurodivergent people, parents, and allies are heard, empowered, and understood.

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Khushboo Chabria is a neurodiversity specialist and a transformational Leader, on a mission to advocate for and help improve access to high quality support services for neurodivergent individuals. Khushboo is a Program Manager, Career Coach and Speaker focused on educating and supporting neurodivergent individuals to help launch their career and supporting organizations to integrate neurodivergent employees into the workplace through belonging and empowerment at Neurodiversity Pathways program of Goodwill of Silicon Valley.

 

With experiences in supporting neurodivergent individuals of all ages and their family members, working as a therapist and clinician, studying organizational leadership and discovering her own ADHD, Khushboo brings an interesting mix of skills and experiences to this field of work. She aims to make a meaningful impact in the world through education, empowerment, authentic engagement and unbridled compassion.

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Ranga Jayaraman is the Director of Neurodiversity Pathways program of Goodwill of Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. He is a neurotypical father of a neurodivergent son. Rangs’s current passion is to empower neurodivergent individuals with the desire and ability to contribute, to find meaningful, rewarding, and sustained employment and to help organizations in their journey to embrace neurodiversity inclusion in their workplaces.

 

Previously, Ranga was an accomplished senior executive of digital transformation, contributing innovative solutions and services to enable and support business strategy and growth in Information Technology and Higher Education organizations. His real-life experience, executive leadership, and business background helps shape the classroom curriculum and learning experience Ranga provides to neurodivergent individuals and organizations.

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What Readers Are Saying

  • "The definitive book on understanding neurodiversity," - John Elder Robison, author of Be Different, Look Me In The Eye, and Switched On.

  • "Essential reading for everyone who wants to learn about neurodiversity," - Sara Sanders Gardner, Director, Neurodiversity Navigators at Bellevue College; Autistic at Work.

  • "This book really unpacks different aspects of neurodiversity, and I highly recommend it".                 - Tumi Sotire, founder of The Black Dyspraxic

  • "This book will give you fresh insight and compassion for yourself and for other people. I wish I had this book to read when my own family members were diagnosed with their neurodivergent conditions. I'm grateful other readers will now have that chance," - Chris Williams, Treasurer of CommunicationFIRST.

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