Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.

5 Tips for a Home that Supports Sensory Needs
Lou Chandler Lou Chandler

5 Tips for a Home that Supports Sensory Needs

Lou Chandler shares reflections on how home environments can impact sensory needs, drawing on their lived experience as an autistic person. Lou explores how elements such as lighting, noise and spatial layout can affect regulation and offers gentle prompts for considering small, supportive adjustments at home.

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Embracing alone time in the festive season
Lived Experience Charli Clement Lived Experience Charli Clement

Embracing alone time in the festive season

Festivities and holidays can be extremely difficult for Autistic and otherwise Neurodivergent people for a variety of reasons; with the way they cause so much change and differences in sensory input and an increase in social situations. For me, I am wholeheartedly of the belief that we would all be happier people during the festive season, Neurodivergent or not, if we allowed ourselves to have more alone time.

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Four approaches for coping with seasonal change
Kay Louise Aldred Kay Louise Aldred

Four approaches for coping with seasonal change

Kay Aldred (NdC Development Lead) shares her recommendations for coping with seasonal change, grouped into four key approaches: making physical adjustments, supporting mental and emotional wellbeing, supporting energy levels and reducing executive functioning burden.

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Neurodivergence, Trauma and Recovery (Part 2/3) — Connecting Back to Embodiment
Kay Louise Aldred Kay Louise Aldred

Neurodivergence, Trauma and Recovery (Part 2/3) — Connecting Back to Embodiment

In this three-part series of blogs, NdC Development Lead Kay Aldred examines the complex entanglement of Neurodivergence and trauma, and the implications this has for the concept of “recovery”. In this second part, Kay explores how connecting to the body can illuminate an understanding of trauma and recovery. 

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Hospital is not a home
Dr Cassandra Lovelock Dr Cassandra Lovelock

Hospital is not a home

Cassie Lovelock considers what would an accessible social housing system look like for neurodivergent folk?

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