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The Frist Center for Autism and Innovation, engineering technologies and transforming the workplace – inspired by neurodiversity, at the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering brings engineers, business scholars, and disabilities researchers together with experts in neuroscience and education to understand, maximize, and promote neurodiverse talent.
From a strengths-based – as opposed to deficit-based – understanding of autism and neurodiversity, the Center sees opportunities for innovation in technology and in workplace practices. Distinctive in focus, the Frist Center will develop and commercialize devices, algorithms, and systems both in support of and inspired by neurodiverse abilities.
By studying and modeling employment arrangements, the Center will support inclusive organizational cultures in which neurodiverse individuals can manifest their full potential. With engagement across academia, government, business, and non-profit organizations, as well as the clinical, vocational, and self-advocacy domains, the Center will work to build a true community-based approach that improves lives, organizations, and society.
Primary areas of focus for the Center’s work include:
• inventing and commercializing new technologies that enable autistic and other neurodiverse people to gain employment, succeed at work, and achieve their full potential;
• studying and understanding neurodiverse capabilities, and inventing and commercializing algorithms and systems that are inspired by those capabilities;
• developing policies, tools, trainings, and workplace practices that recognize and enlist neurodiverse people and talents in the workforce;
• demonstrating, documenting, and disseminating a community-based approach—including employers, self-advocates, researchers, policy makers, agencies, and organizations—to simultaneously enhance the bottom line for business and the quality of life for autistic individuals.
Learn more about the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation here: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/autismandin...


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