26 min
DCD & Me: Living with Developmental Coordination Disorder, featuring Julia Futo | EDB 237 Exploring Different Brains
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Self-advocate and Different Brains intern Julia Futo discusses growing up with DCD.
(26 minutes) Julia faced difficulties early on in life with trying to perform everyday tasks. Before she was five years old, she was diagnosed with two learning disabilities: Encephalopathy and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). She struggled in school for a long time, but that changed when she took journalism in high school and learned how to become an advocate. She is currently in college and hopes to help others find their voices.
For Different Brains articles written by Julia: https://www.differentbrains.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-someone-with-developmental-coordination-disorder/
To see Julia’s “Neurodiversity and the Coronavirus” project: https://www.differentbrains.org/neurodiversity-the-coronavirus/
Julia’s article for EP Magazine can be seen here: https://www.epmagazine.com/blog/being-a-neurodiverse-advocate
For more info: https://cee.engr.uconn.edu/include
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Self-advocate and Different Brains intern Julia Futo discusses growing up with DCD.
(26 minutes) Julia faced difficulties early on in life with trying to perform everyday tasks. Before she was five years old, she was diagnosed with two learning disabilities: Encephalopathy and Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). She struggled in school for a long time, but that changed when she took journalism in high school and learned how to become an advocate. She is currently in college and hopes to help others find their voices.
For Different Brains articles written by Julia: https://www.differentbrains.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-someone-with-developmental-coordination-disorder/
To see Julia’s “Neurodiversity and the Coronavirus” project: https://www.differentbrains.org/neurodiversity-the-coronavirus/
Julia’s article for EP Magazine can be seen here: https://www.epmagazine.com/blog/being-a-neurodiverse-advocate
For more info: https://cee.engr.uconn.edu/include
Follow Different Brains on social media:
https://twitter.com/diffbrains
https://www.facebook.com/different.brains/
https://www.instagram.com/diffbrains/
Check out more episodes of Exploring Different Brains!
http://differentbrains.org/category/edb/
26 min