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As more neurodivergent adults and people with disabilities are hired, companies are increasingly realizing the need to learn about how to support these employees.

As more neurodivergent adults and people with disabilities are hired, more companies are realizing the need to learn about how to support their new employees and then provide those services.

As more neurodivergent adults and people with disabilities are hired, more companies are realizing the need to learn about how to support their new employees and then provide those services.

Last September, more than 35 percent of Americans with disabilities, including nonvisible disabilities such as neurodivergence, had jobs, a record in the 15 years in which the federal government has kept track of such data.

The new Disability Cultural Center (DCC) opened Tuesday, April 4, establishing a space for disabled students on campus to socialize, relax, attend events and create conversations surrounding disabled culture and ableism.  The DCC, located in Steiner Hall room 205, is run by three students and one advisor. Roman Belsher `24, executive outreach officer for the...

Photo contributed by Anne Harris. “We met in the graduate school program for art history at the University of Chicago in the fall of 1991. Mac is a modernist and Anne is a medievalist – worlds apart! – so we never had any seminars together. Instead, the Art Library – where Anne worked – was really the place where we met and talked and hung out and got to know each other. The activities involved in researching and writing PhDs were also bonding experiences, as was traveling in France a...