Why this course?

Oh, there are so many buzzwords around being neurodiversity affirming, so much pressure from a marketing and ethical perspective to get it right and, well, so little time to do it.

What I’ve done in this course is focus on care for autistic clients, whilst acknowledging that neurodiversity is so much more than just autistic people.

(Yes, Kassiane, we hear you! And if you don’t yet know who Kassiane is, you’ll learn about their contributions in this course.)

In this social justice movement, I want us to take the time—to sit and go slowly. To not take in information as piecemeal concepts from various areas of the internet, but to approach it in a structured way.

I want us to look at where we’ve gotten it wrong and identify logical fallacies and biases, so that we, as healthcare professionals, can start to get it right.

That matters.

I want the clients we see to feel safe and receive truly neuroaffirming care. It’s the least we can do in our endeavour to correct the iatrogenic harm caused through allied health in the past, when we didn’t know better.

Well, now we do.

There is a plethora of evidence showing us the way forward, and I’ve summarised it here for you.

I’ve taken information from the past five years and structured it for your learning, creating frameworks, resources and checklists to ease that mental load as much as possible—so you can do the work where it really needs to count.