Faculty Lunch & Learn Series Session One Topic: Neurodivergence

**Session 1 Rescheduled: Snow Date Monday, March 2 | 12-1pm**

ACES presents a four-part, UDL-centered, Lunch & Learn series that prepares faculty and graduate students to recognize the intersecting strengths and challenges of multilingual and neurodivergent students and to develop practical, classroom-ready strategies for fostering more inclusive learning environments. Through interactive sessions, participants will build foundational knowledge, practice equitable grouping and assignment design, and leave with concrete tools to reduce barriers to participation and learning.

Originally designed for faculty, this series is also open to graduate students and staff who teach or plan to teach in higher education and are interested in discussing practical strategies for supporting all students through the lens of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

This series consists of four Lunch & Learn sessions, held every two weeks on Mondays at noon. This is a continuous series. Attendees who participate in all four sessions will receive a certificate of completion through the Office of ACES. There is no remote option for attendance, but sessions will be recorded for viewing later. Light lunch will be provided.

Session One Topic: Neurodivergence

Speaker: Rachel Adams, MEd | Associate Director of Education and Training, Disability Services

This series is designed around preliminary work on the intersections of multilingualism & neurodivergence through an accessibility lens based on Supplemental Materials & Foundational Research.