Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
I like to establish a foundation with new clients, especially when I’m working with their parents and not directly with the child. This particular kiddo is not confirmed as neurodivergent, is very academically capable, and is being bossed around by anxiety at the moment. When I am supporting her I feel it is important that[…]
Q: My daughter is in Kindergarten and has just been diagnosed as Autistic. She was assessed after her teacher pointed out unusual things she’d noticed at school and we were worried about how little she sleeps. She likes going to school, and seems pretty happy in her small group of friends. She doesn’t have any[…]
If you aren’t familiar with Doom Boxes, and you regularly encounter issues with tidiness in your home, your life is about to change… Probably because it’s been the spring school holidays here in Australia, I’m hearing and seeing more and more exasperated parents freaking out over the state of their kids’ bedrooms. When they’re busy[…]
A little over 100 hundred years ago, the term “autism” was first used to describe an aspect of schizophrenia. What we now know were autistic children were diagnosed at the time as schizophrenic. Previously, autistic people were considered to have dementia, or “developmental retardation”. In the 1930s and 40s, scholars began to appreciate that autism[…]
As the parent of an autistic child, all the biggest events that occur in relation to our favourite support networks involve social stories. At the end of the school year in 2022, we received a social story outlining who would be teaching her grade the next year, that her peers would remain the same, that[…]
There are many reason why neurodivergent children (and adults) experience chronic or frequent pain. If your child expresses that they are feeling pain, please don’t assume they are being attention seeking or hypochondriacal, or imagining it. While the experience of pain, or the expression of it, might differ to neurotypical behaviours, it is no less[…]
