Training for Teachers
Navigating First Autism Conversations
This webinar training covers:
- How to explain Autistic brain styles, social communication styles, learning and play styles.
- Benefits of engaging in an autism assessment for children, adolescents and adults.
- What an autism assessment involves.
- Aims of supports and accommodations - to better understand and support neurodivergent brain styles, not to teach people how to look neurotypical (camouflaging).
- How to find neurodiversity affirming resources, and avoid out-of-date material.
Neurodiversity Affirming Practices when working with Autistic people and their families.
This webinar training covers:
- updating the language we use and the reasons behind these changes;
- strengths of the Autistic brain style;
- internalised presentation of Autism and the mental health impacts associated with masking;
- the Double Empathy Problem and improving everyone's understanding of Autistic social communication styles;
- what we've learned from neurodivergent adults, particularly from the Autistic community;
- things to consider when aiming for neurodiversity affirming practice and research;
- neurodiversity affirming resources for children, young people and adults.
Supporting Autistic Trans Clients and Students Webinar
This webinar covers:
- Higher prevalence of autism within the trans community, and greater gender diversity within the autistic community.
- Quick update on neurodiversity-affirming language and the internalised presentation of autism, which is common among nonbinary and trans people.
- How to support someone who is exploring and affirming their gender, creating a safe space for young people and adults, including using correct names and pronouns.
- Sensory sensitivity, hormonal changes, rejection sensitivity, anxiety and mood.
- Gender dysphoria and gender euphoria - avoiding overly pathologising trans experiences and moving on from narratives that focus on 'transition'.
- Autistic communication styles, expressive and receptive language differences, alexithymia, prosopagnosia, and differences in interoception.
- Exploring identity, connecting with neurokin and the trans community, and connecting through special interests and passions.
- When it's not about gender or hormones - overcoming barriers in accessing health care and mental health care for trans people.
- Resources for autistic trans people and their families.
- Resources for teachers and health professionals.
Our team of experienced psychologists provide training and resources for teachers to help them support neurodiverse students.
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