Autistic Students and Academic Library Research: Recommendations for a Neurodiversity-Informed Approach

Abstract

In Brief: Despite a growing pool of research in library and information science authored by autistic librarians, the vast majority of LIS research about autistic students in academic libraries continues to portray autism as a tragedy that students must overcome, a common trope that the autistic community has long rallied against. In this article, I recommend that those writing about autistic students and academic libraries do so through a neurodiversity lens.

Keywords

• academic libraries
• autism
• disability
• neurodiversity