Your how-to guide for creating affirming, empowering spaces for students.

How do we create affirming spaces in schools?

Awareness of neurodiversity and how to support neurodivergent children has been growing in schools. However, many practitioners report they have difficulty finding practical resources to advocate for their neurodivergent clients in educational settings.

This workshop was designed to help!

This workshop will introduce providers to the concepts of neurodiversity and the social model of disability, drawing their attention to how environments like the therapist’s office or classroom can enable or disable children.

Then, participants will learn practical strategies for implementing neurodiversity-affirming practices in the classroom, empowering neurodivergent students, and helping teachers support them in the ways they need. 

Participants will leave this talk with specific strategies for:

• How to talk about neurodivergence in the classroom
• How to advocate for and run neurodiversity-affirming problem-solving meetings (e.g. SSTs)
• How to build and promote affirming self-reflection in clients
• How to explicitly teach children about neurodiversity and ableism

For the official flyer, click here.

Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Explain neurodiversity in client/student-friendly language;
• Explain how neurodiversity and ableism relate to other forms of representation and discrimination;
• Describe how compensatory skills and masking affect students and hinder learning;
• Apply neurodiversity-affirming strategies in educational settings.

Cost & Refund Policy

$49

Refunds will be granted for recordings only if there is an error on our end and you are not able to view the course.