AFEM Launches First-Ever Survey to Discover Neurodiversity In Digital Music Business – EDM.com
The music trade has traditionally struggled to be inclusive to people who find themselves neurodiverse.
However as new data and analysis come up quickly, music professionals in all sectors of the trade are broadening their horizons and understanding the significance of neurodiversity, the perspective that varied neurological circumstances are regular versus being thought of deficits.
The Affiliation For Digital Music (AFEM) simply launched a first-of-its-kind survey that may acquire data from music trade workplaces. The information shall be used to tell organizations and workers alike about what it is prefer to work within the digital music trade with a neurodiverse situation in addition to make use of folks that have one.
Neurodiversity contains the next: ASD (autism spectrum dysfunction), ADHD (consideration deficit hyperactivity dysfunction), dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia and Tourette Syndrome.
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Along with educating digital music workplaces and professionals, the survey’s knowledge shall be used to scale back the stigmatization round neurodiverse circumstances.
“For the previous 5 years, AFEM has made championing psychological well being consciousness central to our work,” mentioned Tristan Hunt, AFEM Well being Group founder and Regional Supervisor, in a press launch to EDM.com. “Whereas we’re heartened to see a giant improve throughout the trade in folks’s understanding and help of psychological well being, the topic of neurodiversity nonetheless is new or not well-known to many.”
“AFEM’s new neurodiversity survey goals to vary that,” Hunt continued. “By collaborating on this survey, you’ll assist create an trade that higher understands and helps folks with neurodiverse circumstances, so making it a happier and more healthy place for everybody who works in it.”
The survey solely takes about 10 minutes to finish and the outcomes shall be shared later this 12 months. You possibly can take part within the survey here.