‘Constructed Languages’ by Christine Schreyer (2021)

Anthropologist Christine Schreyer’s brief overview article mentions applications for conlangs in teaching, including about topics such as linguistic relativity (2021: 330); this could potentially be expanded to teaching about neurodiversity. She furthermore references the value of conlangs to convey marginalised individuals’ personal – e.g. transmasculine – experiences (2021: 332). Notably, individual, not collective, experiences are emphasised here; however, individual experience can still highlight collective issues.
Schreyer’s anthropological viewpoint with a focus on how and why conlangers create languages – and sometimes even communities of speakers – thus elucidates a further potential use of conlangs in a neurodiversity context: creating a conlang that highlights an autistic/neurodivergent person’s experience. Here, other neurodivergent individuals may relate to their experience especially where it touches upon the specific experience of neurodivergent marginalization – though naturally not always in the same manner, or to the same degree.