Hello, my name is Jamie Chase.

I’m an autistic and ADHD educator and doctoral researcher at the University of Washington.  My research centers the communicative practices of neurodivergent speakers and challenges deficit-based approaches to disability in schools.
I seek to co-construct educational spaces where neurodivergent children are recognized as imaginative, agentic communicators. Drawing from lived experience as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent person and former elementary teacher, my work is grounded in disability justice, crip linguistics, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
I explore how educational practices can affirm neurodivergent expression, with current projects examining  language development, autistic identity,  and neurodivergent forms of communication, as well as the role of compliance culture in shaping classroom experiences.