{"id":1581,"date":"2025-03-14T10:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:39:49","slug":"neurodiversity-celebration-week-17-23-march-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/neurodiversity-celebration-week-17-23-march-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurodiversity Celebration Week 17 &#8211; 23 March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: center\">Neurodiversity Celebration Week challenges stereotypes and promotes inclusion, recognising and respecting\u00a0 neurological differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We often talk about specific neuro differences including Autism and ADHD, but these can also<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">co-occur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It is estimated that <b>15% \u2013 20% <\/b>of the UK population has a neurological difference.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The prevalence for Autism in the UK is <b>1.3%.**<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In Dorset \u00a0just over <b>14,000<\/b> <b>people<\/b> (<b>1.7<\/b><b>% <\/b>of the population) have a diagnosis of Autism,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0of these:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<b>1,700<\/b> have a diagnosis of both Autism and a Learning Disability<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b>Over <b>3,000<\/b> have an Autism and ADHD diagnosis.<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-default fusion-button-default button-1 fusion-button-default-span fusion-button-default-type\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neurodiversityweek.com\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text awb-button__text awb-button__text--default\">Find out more visit Neurodiversity Week<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/diis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}