Your Special Abilities and .NET
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This is designed to be a friendly and insightful event focused towards supporting and collaborating the .NET community.
The event will be catered towards software engineers / architects of all levels who are interested in meeting with like-minded people, as well as hearing from industry leaders discussing all things .NET.
I'm pleased to announce that Jeannette Washington, Regional Manager at Microsoft's TEALS Program, will be discussing how to steer the strengths, address the misconceptions and navigate the hacks meant to empower developers who exhibit special abilities, such as dyslexia, ADHD and autism spectrum traits.
Jeannette's talk:
The most unstoppable developers have been in a situation where a system has gone down or something broke, and they were responsible for getting it back up. The resilience of an unstoppable developer can usually be tracked back to their school experiences. Students that exhibit special needs gain thick skin in school because they face challenges that the typical student can’t fathom, like receiving insulting red stained comments on their work, even when they put their best foot forward, and being singled out to complete a task that should be modified for their understanding. These students grow into developers who live in the trenches, understand that mistakes are often the best learning opportunities, and maintain an obnoxious amount of stick-to-itiveness.
About the speaker:
Jeannette Washington, M.Ed. is a former Speech Language Pathologist with nearly a decade of experience working with students that exhibit special abilities. Her expertise in the field of dyslexia has been solicited in The Washington Post alongside the cofounder of the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. She has spoken at Guaranty Trust Bank’s 9th Annual Autism Conference in Nigeria, the Mississippi Dyslexia Symposium, Word Camp Publishers Chicago and participated in a Diversity in WordPress Panel, to name a few. She boasts the importance of accessibility, inclusivity and cognitive diversity in the tech industry.
We look forward to seeing you online!