Autism Understanding Teacher Bundle
27 hours PD | Online Trainings For Supporting Neurodivergent Students
Practical, neurodiversity-affirming training for educators
Supporting neurodivergent students involves more than applying a standard list of classroom strategies. It requires an understanding of how individual students think, communicate, learn and regulate, along with practical ways to create safer and more accessible learning environments.
The Teacher Bundle: Supporting Neurodivergent Students brings together comprehensive foundational training and focused professional learning for educators working across early childhood, primary and secondary settings.
Through 27 hours of self-paced PD, you’ll explore practical approaches to supporting Autistic, ADHD, PDA and other neurodivergent students in classrooms, playgrounds and the wider school environment.
Includes:
- Supporting Autistic Students Course (11 hours, value $495)
- Engaging Neurodivergent Learners 10-part Webinar Series (10 hours, $550)
BONUS WEBINARS
- Understanding Autism and ADHD (2 hours, value $198)
- Autistic Burnout and School Can't (2 hours, value $198)
- Supporting Autistic Trans Clients and Students (2 hours, value $198)
27 hours PD
Total included value $1639
Who This Bundle Is For
This professional learning bundle is suitable for:
- Classroom teachers
- Early childhood educators
- Teacher aides and learning support staff
- Specialist and inclusive education teachers
- School leaders and wellbeing teams
- School psychologists and counsellors
- Allied health professionals working with students and schools
It is relevant for educators who are new to neurodiversity-affirming practice, as well as experienced staff wanting to review and strengthen their current approach.
What You’ll Learn
Across the courses and webinars, you’ll learn how to:
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Better understand neurodivergent thinking, communication and social interaction styles
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Recognise sensory, movement, attention and regulation needs
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Respond to behaviour with curiosity and consider what may be happening beneath it
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Support engagement without relying on compliance-based approaches
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Reduce unnecessary anxiety, sensory overload and pressure to mask
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Plan practical supports and accommodations for individual students
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Include students meaningfully in conversations about their learning and support needs
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Support PDA students through safety, connection, autonomy and flexible learning
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Better support non-speaking students and students with intellectual disability
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Prepare students for transitions, excursions, incursions and changes in routine
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Recognise and respond to Autistic and ADHDer burnout and School Can’t
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Build more consistent neurodiversity-affirming practices across classrooms and school teams
Included in the Teacher Bundle
Supporting Autistic Students Course
Value: $495 | 11 hours PD
This self-paced course provides a practical introduction to understanding and supporting Autistic students in the classroom and playground.
The course examines how Autistic students may experience learning, communication, social interaction, sensory input, routines and movement differently. It also explores why some traditional school-based approaches can increase masking, anxiety and burnout.
Training covers:
- Current Autism diagnostic criteria
- Autism, neurodiversity and why Autistic people do not need to be “cured”
- Using interests and passions to support engagement
- Communication styles and the Double Empathy Problem
- Neurodivergent thinking and learning styles
- Social interaction styles and creating connection through shared interests
- Sensory preferences and sensitivities
- Supporting preferences for sameness and easing transitions
- Understanding repetitive movement, stimming and movement for learning
- Planning for life after school and supporting students to find their community
The course includes recorded presentations, audio files, mini-quizzes and downloadable resources for use in educational settings.
Engaging Neurodivergent Learners Webinar Series
Value: $550 | 10 hours PD
This ten-part webinar series brings together neurodivergent educators, school leaders and health professionals sharing professional expertise alongside lived experience.
Each one-hour webinar focuses on an area educators commonly encounter when supporting neurodivergent students:
1. Using A Neurodivergent Student Profile
Learn how to gather useful, student-centred information and apply it across teaching, support planning, transitions and communication with families.
2. Thinking Beyond a Sensory Room
Explore how sensory regulation can be supported throughout the school day rather than limited to a separate room or used only once a student is overwhelmed.
3. A Neurodiversity-Affirming Take on Teaching Social Skills
Consider practical ways to support communication, relationships and social understanding without teaching students to hide their natural communication style.
4. Planning for Excursions and Incursions
Identify common barriers to participation and plan ahead for changes in routine, unfamiliar environments, sensory demands, group activities and transitions.
5. Understanding Fluctuating Energy and Including Students in Planning
Understand dynamic disability and learn developmentally appropriate ways to include students in identifying the supports and accommodations that work for them.
6. Staying Curious About Unusual Behaviours
Move beyond surface-level interpretations of behaviour and explore possible sensory, communication, emotional, environmental and physical factors.
7. Building Your Toolbox for Explaining Brain Styles and Supporting Sensory Regulation
Develop accessible ways to help students understand their own brains, bodies and regulation needs.
8. Building Safety and Connection with PDA Students
Learn how perceived demands can affect a PDA student’s sense of safety and explore approaches based on trust, collaboration, flexibility and autonomy.
9. Supporting PDA: Child-Led Learning from Pre-Kindy to Year 6
Explore how child-led learning can support safety, engagement and participation for PDA learners across early childhood and primary school settings.
10. Supporting Non-Speaking Students, Intellectual Disability and Transition from High School
Consider practical communication, inclusion and transition approaches for non-speaking students and students with intellectual disability.
3 BONUS WEBINARS
Understanding Autism and ADHD
Value: $198 | 2 hours PD
Explore the similarities, differences and frequent overlap between Autism and ADHD, including how these brain styles can affect attention, regulation, communication, learning and everyday participation.
Autistic Burnout and School Can’t
Value: $198 | 2 hours PD
Learn about the factors that can contribute to burnout and School Can’t, how these experiences may present, and ways educators can respond with greater understanding and appropriate support.
Supporting Autistic Trans Clients and Students
Value: $198 | 2 hours PD
Build your understanding of the intersection between Autism and gender diversity, with practical guidance for creating safer and more affirming educational environments for Autistic trans and gender-diverse students.
Practical Training for Real Educational Settings
The strategies explored throughout this bundle are designed for real classrooms, where educators are working with diverse needs, limited time and plenty of competing demands.
The focus is not on finding one strategy that works for every student. It is on developing a clearer framework for understanding individual students and making thoughtful, realistic adjustments to the environment, communication and learning experience.
The training can help educators move from asking, “How do we make this student comply?” to asking, “What is making participation difficult, and what support might help?”
That shift can improve safety, trust, engagement and learning for students while giving educators a more useful basis for planning and decision-making.
Bundle Inclusions
Your enrolment includes:
- The complete Supporting Autistic Students Course
- The complete Engaging Neurodivergent Learners 10-part Webinar Series
- 3 bonus specialist webinars
- Video training available online
- Audio, slides and downloadable resources where provided
- Self-paced access
- 27 hours of PD
- Certificates of completion
Total Included Value: $1,639
Special Bundle Price $799
Gain access to 27 hours of practical, neurodiversity-affirming professional learning designed specifically for educators and other professionals supporting neurodivergent students.
