Empowering Neurodivergent Learners

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 tools for how to evaluate the level of neurodiversity-affirming practices in their own and other settings, directly empower their neurodivergent clients, and advocate for neurodivergent clients in educational settings. 

Participants will leave this talk with specific strategies for:

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

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