{"id":8931,"date":"2024-07-17T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2025-05-05T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:04:23","slug":"what-to-know-about-bellevue-colleges-neurodiversity-navigators-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/2024\/07\/17\/what-to-know-about-bellevue-colleges-neurodiversity-navigators-program\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know about Bellevue College&#8217;s Neurodiversity Navigators Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.425magazine.com\/users\/profile\/Destiny%20Valencia\">Destiny Valencia<\/a> Jun 10, 2024\u00a0Updated\u00a0Jun 21, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bellevue College<\/a>\u00a0offers\u00a0a resource aimed at neurodivergent students \u2014 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neurodiversity Navigators<\/a>\u00a0program \u2014 that offers specialized courses and peer mentors to help students with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more excel while attending the college, according to a release from the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BC&#8217;s Neurodiversity Navigators program was among the first resources of its kind when it launched 14 years ago as the Autism Spectrum Navigators program. The program is also unique in that it&#8217;s designed and developed by neurodivergent people. (The director, Sara Sanders Gardner, is autistic, as are other full-time members of the staff.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver 14 years, we\u2019ve trained most of the college on how to set themselves up for ensuring better communication and accessibility for neurodivergent students, to the benefit of all students,\u201d Sanders Gardner said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who enroll in the program can take classes on executive functioning, self-advocacy, self-regulation, and social interaction, each designed to help students and hone their strengths. Students also meet weekly with peer mentors to discuss challenges they&#8217;re facing and will be assisted as they access available resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the entire article at 425 Magazine online: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.425magazine.com\/culture\/bellevue-college-neurodiversity-navigators\/article_901646d2-275f-11ef-b6e1-1f3650017809.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What to Know About Bellevue College&#8217;s Neurodiversity Navigators Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destiny Valencia Jun 10, 2024\u00a0Updated\u00a0Jun 21, 2024 Bellevue College\u00a0offers\u00a0a resource aimed at neurodivergent students \u2014 the\u00a0Neurodiversity Navigators\u00a0program \u2014 that offers specialized courses and peer mentors to help students with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more excel while attending the college, according to a release from the school. BC's Neurodiversity Navigators program was among the first resources <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/2024\/07\/17\/what-to-know-about-bellevue-colleges-neurodiversity-navigators-program\/\">...more about What to Know about Bellevue College&#8217;s Neurodiversity Navigators Program<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8932,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/autismspectrumnavigators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}