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Information and Agenda
Join the Health Center at Auraria and other campus representatives at Building Bridges: An Autism Experience, open to all Auraria students, faculty, and staff. This event includes speakers, “Ask a Neurodivergent” panels, resource fair, low-contact activities, and higher-contact interactive activities.
This webpage contains digital versions of handouts available at Building Bridges. Two of the Word document handouts are noted as having a visual focus and have notes for screen reader users.
Schedule:
Resource fair and low-contact activities run throughout the entire event.
Interactive activities switch out every 30 minutes on the following rotation.
- Context Sensitive: have some fun exploring why context matters and how we can help each other and ourselves build more context in our day-to-day interactions.
- Imposter: work within set boundaries to try to identify the imposter before they finish their task! How much do you judge others based on certain characteristics?
- Who Am I?: connect with your core self and reflect on the difference between your core self and your masks.
Speaker and panel room schedule:
- 10:00a-10:30a: “Ask a Neurodivergent” Q&A panel
- 10:30a-11:00a: Speaker: Ike Wheeler, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Health Center at Auraria
- 11:00a-11:30a: “Ask a Neurodivergent” Q&A panel
- 11:30a-12:00p: Speaker: Cathi Allen, Director of Inclusive Higher Education Solutions, MSU Denver
- 12:00p-12:30p: “Ask a Neurodivergent” Q&A panel
- 12:30p-1:00p: “Ask a Neurodivergent” Q&A panel
- 1:00p-1:30p: Speaker: Natalie Nowak, Registered Dietician, Health Center at Auraria
- 1:30p-2:00p: Speaker: Access Center, MSU Denver
Digital Versions of Handouts
Word documents:
- Autism Resources
- Autism and Neurodiversity terms
- Accommodations for Autism Suggestions
- Worksheet: Celebrate yourself. Note for screen reader users: each prompt is followed by four “blank” announcements which provided writing space on the physical documents.
- Worksheet: Spectrum Coloring. Note: This worksheet contains images meant for coloring in (as noted in the alt-text).
Images:
- Guidelines for creating Neuroart (physical drawings)
- We Rock the Spectrum: coupons
Contact information
Building Bridges Organizers:
Student Disability Services websites: