Key takeaways:

Student-led Neurodiversity Alliance grew from 60 to 600 schools in one year.

Denver summit brought together 130 students to share strategies.

Eye to Eye program mentors younger neurodivergent students through art.

Grassroots efforts gain funding, including a $300,000 Elevate Prize .

DENVER — Engineering student Tory Ridgeway buried his head.

Just finished with his Lockheed Martin internship and weeks away from his final year at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the 22-year-old from Maryland found himself overwhelmed by the solidarity he felt at a neurodivergent leadership conference.

Having autism and ADHD , Ridgeway already knew there were plenty of others like him. But he hadn’t realized they shared the same negative self-talk. He said he locked into fo

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