Judy Singer

Judy Singer


Education
Alma mater	University of Technology Sydney
Philosophical work
School	Disability studies
Notable ideas	Neurodiversity

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Autism rights movement

Philosophy Autistic rights movement Bodily autonomy Disability rights movement Independent living movement Neurodiversity paradigm Self-advocacy
Organizations AsIAm Aspies For Freedom Autism-Europe Autism Network International Autistic Self Advocacy Network National Autistic Society
Events Autistic Pride Day Disability Day of Mourning Neurodiversity Celebration Week
Issues Ableism Anti-autism All in a Row Applied behavior analysis Augmentative and alternative communication Autism-friendly Autism Speaks Autism therapies Autistic masking Communication Shutdown Community integration Conditions comorbid to autism Controversies in autism Deinstitutionalisation Disability-selective abortion Double empathy problem Employment Supported employment Ethical challenges to autism treatment Eugenics Facilitated communication Filicide Inclusion in education Inclusion as a right Judge Rotenberg Center Mortality of autistic individuals Neurodiversity and labor rights Social model of disability Societal and cultural aspects of autism Suicide among people with autism Universal design Universal Design for Learning Violence
People Alex Plank Ari Ne'eman Damian Milton Daniel Lightwing Devon Price Donna Williams govy Greta Thunberg Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist Jim Sinclair John Elder Robison Josef Schovanec Judy Singer Julia Bascom Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown Mel Baggs Michelle Dawson Morénike Giwa Onaiwu Morton Ann Gernsbacher Nick Walker Robert Chapman Roy Richard Grinker Shain Neumeier Steve Silberman William Davenport M. Remi Yergeau
Films Citizen Autistic Deej Loving Lampposts Neurotypical
Criticism Pro-cure perspective National Council on Severe Autism Matthew Belmonte Manuel Casanova Jill Escher Michael Fitzpatrick Bruce Hall Eileen Lamb Amy S.F. Lutz David Miedzianik Jonathan Mitchell Alysson Muotri Jonathan Shestack Alison Singer

Judy Singer is an Australian sociologist who popularized the term "neurodiversity". After working as a computer consultant, Singer studied sociology at the University of Technology Sydney, where she was influenced by disability studies and Lorna Wing's conception of autism as a spectrum.

Singer's 1999 thesis, Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autism Spectrum, proposed understanding neurological differences as analogous to biodiversity, as more neutral and less pathologizing than traditional understandings of disabilities. Based on her thesis, she contributed a chapter to Disability Discourse. She later founded the Australian support group ASpar and published Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea (2016).