Neurodiversity resources

Neurodivergent Student Resources

📍BC 🇨🇦 Canada 🌍 International

Getting Started

Your Rights and Supports

01

Know Your Rights

You have legal rights to reasonable accommodations under Canadian human rights law.

02

Get Documentation

A formal diagnosis or assessment is your documentation.

03

Request Accommodations

Learn what accommodations are available and how to ask for them.

Funding

Financial Support & Funding for Students

📍 British Columbia

Student Aid BC

Provincial program that helps eligible British Columbians cover the costs of post-secondary education through loans, grants, scholarships, and bursaries.

🇨🇦 Canada

Education Funding for People with Disabilities

Outlines specific financial assistance programs.

Canada Student Grant for Services and Equipment

Helps full-time and part-time students with disabilities pay for exceptional, education-related services and assistive technologies that mitigate barriers to learning

Repayment Assistance Plan for Borrowers with a Permanent Disability

Helps students with permanent disabilities to manage their student loan debt.

Advocacy

Know Your Rights

📍 British Columbia

British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society

Advances disability and health priorities of Indigenous persons through collaboration, consultation and comprehensive holistic services.

Disability Alliance BC

Provides community inclusion resources, legal advocacy, and support to navigate disability benefits.

Inclusion BC

Works with partners to build community and enhance lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through awareness, action, and rights advancement.

BC Human Rights Clinic

Provides free legal services to people who need help with a provincial human rights complaint.

🇨🇦 Canada

IDC National Indigenous Navigation Services

Assists eligible Indigenous persons and families with disabilities, in obtaining various disability related benefits, across Canada.

Barrier Free Canada

Barrier-Free Canada advocates for a barrier-free Canada for all persons with disabilities

🌍 International

Disability Rights International

Disability Rights International documents abuses against children and adults with disabilities, trains activists, and collaborates with advocacy groups working to bring about sustainable reforms in their own countries.

Community & Peer support

Spaces That Get It

📍 British Columbia

UBC Disabilities United Collective

Advocacy and support resource group for disabled students at UBC.

SFU Disability and Neurodiversity Alliance

A student-led network collaborating to drive campus change, dismantle ableism, and advance disability justice while opposing all forms of oppression.

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A Resource for Your Community

The best resources come from lived experience. If you know an advocacy organization, peer support group, or community space serving neurodivergent people that belongs here, tell us. Your input helps us keep this page reflective of the real networks supporting neurodivergent communities.