Research & Advocacy
Science Institute
Articles — Fact-based research documenting what neurodivergent minds are already doing — starting from capability, not deficit.
UMNStudies — It starts in the Lab — individuals sharing the challenges and experiences that, up to now, have never had a voice. Their collective experience becomes the evidence for the changes needed.
UMN Advocacy
UMN Advocacy takes the wing's research into the rooms where decisions get made — seminars, panels, and direct conversations with the organizations still getting neurodivergence wrong.
A neurodivergent pattern running through an entire family, generation after generation — showing how differently each era recognized it, and how much the same pattern was there all along. UMN's founder is building toward speaking engagements that use that lived arc to challenge what “understanding neurodivergence” currently gets wrong.