June 2025 Breaking the Spectrum Wide Open
A short, bold reflection from NeuroDiverse Inclusive Solutions
New Partnership
This Month marks the beginning of a collaborative partnership between NeuroDiverse Inclusive Solutions (NDIS) and Dr. Jami Heyting, ND—rooted in a shared mission to deliver honest, inclusive, and practical education around autism and neurodivergence.
Together, we’re bridging clinical expertise with lived experience. Dan brings a peer-informed coaching perspective grounded in decades of workplace leadership and self-advocacy. Jami offers a rare blend of diagnostic precision and neurodivergent insight—helping underdiagnosed individuals receive affirming care.
NDIS is headquartered in Salem, Oregon, offering coaching and training for individuals and organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Dr. Jami’s practice, Naturally Healthy Families of Central Oregon, is located in Redmond, Oregon, providing telehealth and home visit services. She is also licensed in Washington and Vermont.
Our goal is to dismantle myths, explain real-world regulation strategies, and provide clarity where confusion and stigma still persist. Future collaborations may include expanded training for professionals, deeper dives into co-occurring conditions, and additional public events centered on neurodivergent well-being.
Autism Is Not a Bad Word: Breaking the Spectrum Wide Open Free Webinar
This free webinar will explore what autism really looks like—clinically, socially, and personally. Co-hosted by Dan Dickinson of NDIS and Dr. Jami Heyting, ND, the event will help you recognize traits across the spectrum, navigate support needs, and challenge harmful assumptions. Join us on Friday, June 27, 2025, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM PT to learn from both lived and clinical experience.
Join the Conversation
We welcome your curiosity and input ahead of time! If you have questions you’d like us to address during the webinar—whether clinical, personal, or practical—you can submit them when you register or email us directly. Your voice helps shape the conversation.
What Is Autism?
Understanding autism begins with rejecting the idea that it’s something to be feared or fixed. Autism is a neurological difference that influences how someone experiences the world—how they process information, respond to emotions, interpret social cues, and regulate their senses. Rather than a deficit, it’s a form of diversity with its own strengths and challenges.
Navigating autism, whether in yourself or someone else, means tuning in to the need for regulation. That might look like quiet time after meetings, sensory tools during transitions, or a flexible work routine. For parents, professionals, and autistic adults alike, effective support isn’t about changing who someone is—it’s about helping them feel safe, seen, and able to thrive.
What should you do? Listen. Learn. Make space for different ways of communicating, working, and engaging. And most importantly, question assumptions. The more we understand autism, the better we can respond with compassion and clarity—in the workplace, at home, and in the broader world.
Meet the Speakers:
Dan Dickinson (NDIS Founder)
Dan Dickinson is a late-diagnosed autistic adult with ADHD and dyslexia. With over 20 years in corporate leadership, Dan founded NeuroDiverse Inclusive Solutions (NDIS) to transform how businesses and professionals understand neurodivergence. Through coaching, consulting, and educational outreach, Dan helps reframe masking, burnout, and executive dysfunction—not as deficits, but as natural responses to unsupportive environments. His work centers identity-informed coaching and peer-based insight to empower both individuals and organizations.
Dr. Jami Heyting, ND
Dr. Jami Heyting is a licensed naturopathic physician and founder of Naturally Healthy Families of Central Oregon. Licensed in Oregon, Washington, and Vermont, she offers autism and ADHD assessments with a special focus on women and transgender individuals. Jami blends her clinical background with her lived experience as a neurodivergent woman to provide trauma-informed, affirming care. Her practice includes mental health, pediatric, and reproductive services—advocating for diagnostic accuracy and compassionate support across the lifespan.
Based in Redmond, Oregon
www.naturallyhealthyfamilies.com
Introducing Our New Community Involvement Page
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new Partnerships page on the NDIS website! This section is dedicated to showcasing the organizations, community programs, and public initiatives we collaborate with to promote neurodiversity, accessibility, and inclusion across Oregon.
Whether it’s our ongoing advocacy through the City of Salem’s Disability Rights Task Force, or our boots-on-the-ground support with Hope Station Community Services, these partnerships highlight the values that drive our work: connection, equity, and real-world impact. You’ll also find information about our collaboration with the Autism Society of Oregon, including co-hosted events like sensory-friendly movie nights, cosplay club, and peer support groups.
This page will continue to grow as we form new connections and strengthen existing ones. We believe that sustainable inclusion is built together—and we’re proud to walk alongside others who share that mission.
Explore the page now at www.ndis-llc.com/partnerships
About NeuroDiverse Inclusive Solutions
NeuroDiverse Inclusive Solutions was created to confront the uncomfortable truths that still shape how we talk about autism. Too many public conversations are built on fear—fear of labels, fear of difference, fear of what inclusion really means. That fear turns into policies that don’t work, services that miss the mark, and environments where autistic people are expected to change who they are just to get support.
We exist to flip that script.
Our work is grounded in three things: lived experience, research-informed practices, and real-world results. We support autistic and otherwise neurodivergent adults in navigating work, communication, identity, and burnout. And we train employers, educators, and caregivers to do the same—without relying on outdated labels or assumptions about what autism should look like.
Whether you’re hiring your first neurodivergent employee, mentoring someone who’s been masking for years, or trying to create a culture of real inclusion, we help you do it with honesty, clarity, and respect.
We’re not here to make people more “palatable.” We’re here to make environments more equitable.
Meet Our Founder: Dan Dickinson Sr.
Dan Dickinson Sr. is an autistic professional, corporate veteran, and neurodiversity advocate with over 20 years of experience in change management and employee development. As the Founder and Program Director of NDIS, Dan leads with lived experience, professional insight, and a no-fluff approach to inclusion that actually works. He specializes in training business leaders, mentoring neurodivergent adults, and building environments where people don’t have to mask to succeed.