A very good morning to all of you and uh my gratitude to all those who have been uh in the organizing team and having brought brought me here considering me here to speak about uh a topic which is more of a lifeline to me and even before I proceed I do not speak the UK English or the American English. I speak the Indian English which was taught to me when I was young. So, but I speak from my heart and in some places maybe I use my brain uh because uh the community that I work with typically the um neurodeiv ...

[Applause] Okay. Um, before I get started, excuse me for reading off a script. I haven't spoken in front of a crowd since I quit MU1 a year ago, and I need a little bit of emotional support.Okay, let me get started. Look at this metal. On the surface, it's just a metal or a shiny piece of metal that I'm holding in my hand right now.But to me, it represents so much more. It's a medal I received from participating in the Special Olympics Nepon cheer competition last summer. It symbolizes resilience, teamwork, ...

Music Therapy & Neurodiversity - Music serves as a powerful medium to connect with disadvantaged communities, especially neurodiverse individuals including those with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and chromosomal abnormalities [2] - Music-based interventions are rooted in Indian classical music, leveraging its ancient wisdom [4][5] - Music stimulates multiple brain regions simultaneously, regardless of active or passive engagement [8] - Music is multi-sensory, engaging kinesthetic, auditory, visual, and tactile systems [12][13] - Individuals may have sensory sensitivities to elements of music like sound, pitch, or instruments [16] - Music perception involves sound, tone, emotion, and language [17][18] - Music can be broken down into elements to aid understanding for individuals with sensory sensitivities [15] Application & Benefits - Music therapy can help individuals discriminate between sound, music, and noise [20] - Music can be collaborated with disciplines of psychology and neuroscience [26] - Music can be used as a healing agent and a wholesome exercise to relieve stress [30] - Music therapy is about empathizing and gathering insight into someone else's mind to fix a problem [32][33]

[Music] I often feel that this question is blindly ignored among my fellow peers which is why I'm stepping forward today to ask how does it feel to be neurodyiverged. ent. Well, it's a question without a short answer.My name is Luke White Oak and I have a mental disorder called autism. And I want to show you how that feels for me. But first, we need to find the ethmology of this word.Neuro meaning mind and divergent is just a synonym for different. So, neurode divergence is just to have a different mind. I ...

Good morning everyone. My name is Jesse Sanchez and I'm the co-founder and president of the Neurodiversity Alliance. I'm also a husband, uh, a father of three beautiful kiddos and I'm someone for whom my whole life I've been searching for and I'm now building authentic communities. But see, I probably shouldn't actually be standing here today. My tale is one, statistically speaking, that's supposed to be a cautionary tale. See, my story begins with my mother who fled the grip of the drug cartel where my fat ...

Let me start by asking you all something. Have you at least once in your life, I know you're all very young, but at any point in your life, have you asked yourself this question? And the question is, who am I? Who am I? Sounds like a simple question, right? You see, the moment you're born, you're welcomed into a world that pretty much tells you who you are. You are enrolled into school by the time you're just 3 or 4 years old. And there are these milestones that are set on your path. And you're expected to ...