Are you tasked with managing a neurodiverse team, and want to learn how to adopt an inclusive approach on a 1:1 basis?
Have you thought about how to relate to a team member who is autistic or has ADHD, so they feel supported?
Utopia: A Place We Can Thrive campaign was inspired by other neurodivergents who felt that perhaps their story was not reaching mainstream media.
We often hear people sharing their lived experiences “My ADHD means that I’m like this or my Autism means that I’m like this”.
If your child has special educational needs (SEN) but the SEN help they’re receiving through the school is not meeting their needs it might be useful to pursue an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Getting an EHCP is not a simple, straightforward process and can often lead to failure and an appeal process. It’s really important to go through the appeals process because ⅔ of cases are found in favour of parents.
You’ve established that your child has Special Educational Needs (SEN) and you’ve liaised with your child’s school’s Special Needs and Disability Coordinator (SENDCO), but the SEN support they’re receiving is not quite meeting the necessary needs. It could be time to ask for an Education and Health Care (EHC) assessment. This is usually best done in discussion with the school SEN department.
If you’re a parent or carer of a school-age child with special educational needs (SEN), do you want to feel more empowered to request the support your child is entitled to thrive during their school life?
We wrote this article after watching Eva Atkins’ webinar on how to secure the right SEN support for ND kids in school. Eva is an education lawyer, and a neurodivergent herself with three children who required SEN support in school.
In 2021, around 254,400 women took an online test verified by health professionals to see if they have ADHD – this figure was up drastically from around 7,700 during 2019 (The Independent).
On 16th May 2022, ADHD Girls held the first ADHD Best Practice at Work Conference that looked at the challenges and potential solutions to help ADHDers thrive in the workplace. The conference was insightful with loads of amazing feedback and contributions from ADHD specialists and our attendees.
When you first find out you have ADHD it can take over your whole life. It’s all you think about. You associate everything in your life with ADHD and view all of your experiences from an ADHD perspective.
We’ve spoken about the problem of women and girls in particular flying under the radar when it comes to diagnosing neurodiversity – mainly because the symptoms women experience are different from those experienced by men and boys.
We recently wrote a blog about how in 2021 thousands of women took online tests to find out if they had ADHD. According to a report in The Independent, around 254,400 women took the test online – a figure up drastically from around 7,700 during 2019.