Books
Did you know that your BruinCard is also your library card for all UCLA and UC libraries? Each of these titles is part of the UCLA collection. Just another perk of working at UCLA!
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity opens a new window by Devon Price explores the concept of masked autism, advocating for greater acceptance and understanding of neurodiversity through personal narratives and academic research.
Spectrum Women: Walking to the Beat of Autism opens a new window by Barb Cook & Dr. Michelle Garnett features personal narratives and professional insights from autistic women, offering empowering and supportive perspectives on life from a female autistic viewpoint
The Adult Side of Dyslexia by Kelli Sandman-Hurley opens a new window combines personal accounts and practical strategies to highlight the challenges and experiences of dyslexic adults, offering insights into their daily lives and mental well-being
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong opens a new window is an anthology of 37 essays that provide diverse, first-person perspectives on living with disabilities in the modern world, highlighting the intersectionality and activism within the disability community
LinkedIn Learning Opportunities
Take advantage of your free personal LinkedIn Learning account opens a new window and the more than 16,000 available courses. Here are two short classes to enhance your knowledge of how to support people with developmental disabilities in the workplace.
Supporting Workers with Disabilities opens a new window
Discover how to sidestep conversations that don't serve your colleagues. Learn how to classify the appropriateness of helping. Plus, get tips on selecting the best employee for a role by focusing on the desired outcome of a task—not the methodology. Upon finishing this course, you'll be ready to start creating a more accessible workplace where employees with disabilities are set up to thrive.
Understanding and Supporting ADHD Colleagues in the Workplace opens a new window
It’s important to become more aware of mental health in the workplace, but it isn’t always easy to know what’s best for your colleagues or how you can better support them to feel recognized and fully valued as human beings. In this course, instructor Tiffany Jameson helps you better understand the impact of ADHD in today’s workplace.
TEDxUCLA
When Ignorance Becomes Awareness opens a new window
Diagnosed with autism at age 12, Russell Lehmann went from an isolated recluse to public speaker. Where he has been and where he is, on face value, might seem like they contradict one another, but what if we left our presumptions, or arrogance, behind and substituted it with awareness of our ignorance?
