Survey 1: Kongress - Researching the barriers for Neurodivergent people in the Arts.

The purpose of this study was to gather information on the experience of Neurodivergent individuals within the Arts and Cultural landscape as both creatives, participants, and audience members. The findings of this questionnaire were used to determine and correlate what the most common barriers are that Neurodivergent people with differing lived experiences face within the arts and cultural landscape. We hope that this study will allow us to better establish a compendium and comparison of experiences. After analysis, these will be fed back to Arts Council England and published in a publicly available report. We can then identify a route for the second stage of this research; to work with organisations, identifying their needs and to enable the facilitation of the solutions.

We have not included the individual responses to preserve anonymity, but have used selected portions as quotes to prompt answers. 

Please find below the questions for Survey 1. 

(Q1-Q3 were permissions.)

Q4. Please use this box to outline one issue you have as a Neurodivergent creative individual within the arts.
Answered 185 
                     
Q5: Please add another issue you have as a Neurodivergent creative individual within the arts. Answered 167 

Q6: Please add any additional issue you have as a Neurodivergent creative individual within the arts. Answered 129           
         
Q7: Please use this box to identify an issue you have as a Neurodivergent audience member in the arts world. Answered 169 
     

Q8: Please identify another issue you have as a Neurodivergent audience member in the arts. Answered 122 
             

 Q9: Please identify any additional issue you have as a Neurodivergent audience member in the arts. Answered 83              

Q10: Have you experienced any additional barriers to the ones you have described above, due to COVID-19. Answered 155     
                 

Q11: Is there anything positive you'd like funders or organisations to know about being a Neurodivergent creative? Does being Neurodivergent help with your creativity? We will use these in the final report to further illustrate the need for barriers to be addressed and dismantled. Answered 153