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Global Neurodiversity Movement Map
The Global Neurodiversity Movement Map is a living, interactive platform that makes the global neurodiversity ecosystem visible, supporting connection, collaboration, and systems-level change.
Helping organizations find peers working on similar themes.
Supporting cross-regional learning and connections.
Enabling emerging leaders to see pathways to participation.
❋ Visibility & Legibility
Make it easy to see who is doing what where.
How to Navigate: Click Marker or Zoom into Area
❋ Systems Insight
Shows concentrations, gaps and overlaps across regions so effort and learning can become more critical.
❋ Collaboration
Helps people find peers, partners, adjacent work to learn from and collaborate with.
About
The Global Neurodiversity Movement Map brings together organizations, initiatives, and leaders advancing neuroinclusion around the world. By making this work visible in one place, the map helps people discover existing efforts, learn from one another, and build new connections across regions and sectors.
The neurodiversity movement has grown organically across countries, disciplines, and communities—often in ways that are hard to see beyond local networks. Many initiatives operate in isolation, and lived-experience leadership is not always recognized or resourced equitably. The map supports shared visibility by showing where work is happening, what themes it addresses, and how the movement functions as an interconnected ecosystem.
More than a directory, the map helps users identify concentrations of activity, structural gaps, and opportunities to collaborate—reducing duplication and strengthening collective impact. It also makes inequities in global infrastructure and representation more visible, supporting more informed conversations about where partnership and investment are needed.
Designed as a living, community-informed resource, the map strengthens knowledge mobilization and legitimacy: researchers can find community partners, funders can understand existing ecosystems, and policymakers can see neuroinclusion work as a coordinated field. Over time, the dataset becomes a valuable tool for shared learning and systems-level change—supporting the continued growth of neurodivergent-led leadership worldwide.
Why This Matters Now
The neurodiversity movement is at an inflection point:
Rapid growth in public awareness
Increasing institutional adoption of neuroinclusion language
Risk of fragmentation, dilution and lost opportunity without shared infrastructure
A global map helps stabilize the field by documenting who is doing what, where, and why — creating continuity as the movement scales.
It transforms scattered momentum into visible infrastructure.
Thank You, Mhoren!
Mhoren is a Psychology student at the University of Stirling who led the development of the Movement Map during her placement with the NCF. Her work involved collecting and curating data on global neurodiversity initiatives and organising this information for visualisation. Mhoren worked with significant commitment and purpose throughout her placement with NCF and we are grateful for all she has added!