A round-up of the bizarre and brilliant of the web corralled by the University of Portsmouth Library.
What is different about people who we describe as being “austistic”? Well, it’s complicated and, as with dementia, no two autistic people are the same, although there are five general traits they share in common that help characterise this form of neurodiversity.
Continuing on from my last two posts for Neurodiversity Awareness Week, I wanted to introduce you to the most common presentations of neurodiversity: the four ‘D’s: dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and dyspraxia.
he architecture of oppression is old and runs deep in our society. Even the buildings we work in are often designed in ways that disturb neurodiverse people.
In my last blog post, I began to explore why neurodivergent people are so much less likely to be employed than neurotypical people. In this post, I’m going to explore why this might be.
Happy Neurodiversity Awareness Week! This week, we celebrate the rich diversity of humankind and the often very different ways we approach similar challenges.
Many of you have been asking about how you can listen to audiobooks. Portsmouth Public Libraries offer an incredible collection of your favourite titles through their BorrowBox service.
We are always looking for new ways to make learning more fun and interesting. To that end, one of our resident sci-fi enthusiasts has pulled together a reading list of science fiction books we have in stock that were all written by People of the Global Majority.
Happy World Book Day! Explore five books from around the world that will take you on a journey from the artworks of feudal Japan to the mysteries of philosophy and from the worldview of a man in self-imposed social exile to a fantastical parody of pre-war Soviet society and a poignant view of the arrival of British colonialism in Africa told from an African perspective.
Our local police force has shared their latest crime prevention update with us again. This time, the focus is on fraud in all its many forms.
Losing yourself in a book can have a profound impact on body and mind, akin to entering an altered state of consciousness. The effect is rapid, too. After reading for just six minutes, the average person’s stress levels fall by two-thirds as the mind is taken away from its habitual thoughts and the body relaxes. Reading works can relax you even faster than listening to music.
Celebrate World Book Day by going on a blind date with a book. All this week in the Library, you can borrow up one of our specially wrapped hand-picked books from the trolley in the Atrium and discover something you might not otherwise have ever read. Where might your date take you?
