Today is International Day of People With Disabilities - & this year's theme focuses on hidden disabilities

Our report, Psychology at work: Improving wellbeing & productivity in the workplace, looks at neurodiverse conditions that might not be observable to colleagues

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The report reveals how neurodiverse conditions aren’t always disabling.

For example...
Psychological research has shown that people with dyslexia, which affects up to 10% of the population, can have significant strengths in creativity, visual reasoning, visual-spatial skills, story-telling and entrepreneurialism.
Those with DCD, which affects up to 2% of people, have been found to have high verbal comprehension ability.
People with ADHD, which affects up to 4% of the population, can have strong visual spatial reasoning abilities and creative thinking and can be hyper-focused, passionate and courageous.
Those with autism were found to have strengths in memory, thinking innovatively, paying attention to detail and have other ‘specialist individual skills’ including reading, drawing, music and computation. The prevalence of autism is around 1.5%.
And people with Tourette syndrome show an ability to ‘hyper-focus’ and had high verbal ability.
Read the full report - Psychology at work: Improving wellbeing and productivity in the workplace 👉 https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps.org.uk/files/Policy/Policy%20-%20Files/Psychology%20at%20work%20-%20improving%20wellbeing%20and%20productivity%20in%20the%20workplace.pdfhttps://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps.org.uk/files/Policy/Policy%20-%20Files/Psychology%20at%20work%20-%20improving%20wellbeing%20and%20productivity%20in%20the%20workplace.pdf
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