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A practical approach to neurodiversity-affirming care and support: our new interactive toolkit and alternative to PBS plans
We’re joined on the blog today by Kay Louise Aldred, NdC’s Development Lead, for the second blog of our latest campaign ‘Against PBS & ABA’.
Kay explores some of the core principles of our new interactive toolkit.
Critiquing PBS: it is missing lived experience
We’re joined on the blog today by Lizzie Smith, NdC’s Communications Lead, for the first blog of our latest campaign ‘Against PBS & ABA’. Lizzie asks, are you missing the lived experience in your practice?
4Q4: Lived experience review project assistant
In this edition of 4Q4 (Four Questions For), we speak with Peg Digitalis, who worked as a Lived Experience Project Assistant at NdC during the delivery of the recent lived experience review of services provided by Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust (AWP).
Peg shares why this work matters, how lived experience shaped the project, and how the findings could help services better support the people who rely on them.
A Christmas letter to my younger self
In our second festive blog, we’re joined by Molly Anderton, NdC Lived Experience Advisor, as she shares insights into her Christmases growing up as an undiagnosed Neurodivergent person and sends warm wishes back in time to her younger self.
The quiet season: reclaiming rest from performative festivity
Winter is supposed to be a season of rest. The natural world slows down, the light fades and everything in our biology leans toward quiet. Yet December demands the opposite: noise, speed, performance, compulsory joy.
For many Neurodivergent people, this isn’t festive,it’s exhausting. This year, perhaps more than any other, NdC’s Communications and Project Assistant, Tors Denham has found herself questioning whether she wants to keep pretending that this version of celebration works for her.
AuDHD at work: finding balance and co-creating adjustments
Guest contributor, Remie Colledge, contemplates being AuDHD in the workplace, considering how the process of identifying and implementing adjustments can be an opportunity for curiosity and co-creation.
Living it, researching it: from struggles in education to shaping the future for disabled students
In today’s blog, Guest Contributor, Chloe Webster-Harris, shares a poignant insight into her journey through university, her life-changing diagnosis as Autistic and ADHD and their progression to being a co-researcher on a project addressing the disparity of support for disabled students in higher education.
Making the world a better place for Neurodivergent people: We are Neurodiverse Connection.
Kay Louise Aldred, Development Lead at NdC, shares an insight into recent work undertaken by colleagues across our organisation, to update and define our organisational purpose, vision, mission and values.
Navigating my relationship with my sister as an Autistic person
A Guest Contributor shares a poignant reflection on their sibling relationship, as a late-diagnosed Autistic person, and explores how patience, love and a shared history combine to support their commitment to understanding each other.
Misinformation hurts: why we need better conversations about Neurodivergence
Viral posts might be entertaining, but they’re not always accurate, explains Guest Contributor, Chloe Webster-Harris in today’s blog. Chloe joins us to explore why evidence-based information matters and how to spot red flags online.
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- Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
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- GCC Summit 2023
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- inpatient
- intersectionality
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- language
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