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Topics for training

All topics include hands on activities and Q&A. More topics will be added from time to time, and bespoke training is also available.

    • Understand and use neurodiversity affirming language and theories

    • Barriers to therapy (or other mainstream services)

    • Recognising neurodiversity affirming practice and practices that are harmful and need change

    • Define and describe autism from a neurodiversity affirming perspective, including leading theories of autism such as neural connectivity, bottom up processing and monotropism

    • Understand and embrace Autistic strengths and differences

    • Increase confidence in understanding and accommodating the needs of Autistic client, such as being on a spectrum, sensory differences

    • Gain practical skills and tools to use with Autistic clients, such as energy accounting

    • ·Adapt your understanding of polyvagal theory to apply it in a neurodiversity affirming way

    • Use practical strategies to help Autistic adults up and down regulate

    • Learn about Autistic masking and how to develop a plan for unmasking safely

  • Looks at how we can conceptualise autism as culture and how we can be culturally competent and safe.

    This includes looking at communication differences and the double empathy problem.

  • Definitions, screening tools, ways to adapt your practice & resources for common co-neurodivergences and things that occur more frequently in Autistics, such as

    • ADHD

    • Misophonia

    • Alexithymia

    • Aphantasia

    • + others

    Differences in gender and sexuality will also be touched on.

  • For the prediagnosis phase, this looks at

    • Groups who tend to be underdiagnosed (such as women/AFAB or BIPOC)

    • Common presentations of undiagnosed Autistic adults

    • Issues and concerns during the pre-diagnosis stage

    • What leads people to seek a diagnosis

    • Potential positive and negative consequences of diagnosis to consider

    For the diagnosis phase it looks at:

    • Issues that come up during diagnosis

    • Ways to support diagnosis

    • Common responses to diagnosis

  • Looks at common phases that Autistics move through post diagnosis and strategies and supports that can help them. This includes looking at:

    • Building Autistic identity

    • Grieving

    • Breaking the burn-out cycle

    • Connecting with neurokin

    • Empowerment

  • This unpacks the following common myths about autism and why it matters if people believe these myths:

    • Autistics are savants

    • Autistics do not have theory of mind

    • Autism is a male thing, and those females that are Autistic just have a male brain

    • Autistic people cannot lie

    • Autistic people cannot be good communicators

  • Whilst this topic is both contraversial and confronting, it offers a good justification and understanding of why the Autistic community is such marganisled and traumatised community and why neurodiversity affirming practice is both ethical and essential practice.

    This topic looks at the impacts and implications of:

    • Key people who contributed to “discovering” autism and created treaments for them including Kanner, Asperger, Bettelheim, and Lovaas

    • Cutting edge (and harmful) treatments for autism at different times of history, including medical, psychologically, societal, and behavioural

    • Special attention is given to the treatment of ABA, which is still considered by many to be the “gold standard”

    • The emergence of organisations such as Autism Speaks

    • The emergence of the neurodiversity affirming movement

    It then also points to some of the alternatives, which are covered in other key topics.

    *note: this topic can be quite confronting due to the harm caused to Autistics. Time is build into this presentation to help process some of the feelings so the content can be presented safely.

  • Individual or group supervision can be provided.

    Supervision is a space for professionals to reflect on their practice. Things that may be covered in supervision include:

    • case consultation

    • considering alternative theories

    • having your practice challenged in a supportive way

    • attending to issues such as transference, countertransference and parallel processing

    • monitoring of the mental health & attending to the self care of the practitioner

  • A talk presented by a late diagnosed Autistic adults on growing up undiagnosed, experiences in life, the diagnostic journey and how they have shaped their life since then.

    Different elements of autism will be explained throughout the talk.

    This talk is perfect for a lighter training session or where the group would benefit from hearing about lived experience.

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