Neurodivergence & Neurodiversity Practice Support
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Neurodivergence & Neurodiversity Practice Support
Practical support for translating understanding of neurodivergence into better everyday practice, including communication, sensory needs, executive functioning and reasonable adjustments.
Not awareness training. This is about what you notice, what you ask, what you change, and whether it actually helped.
Built By, With and For People
Orientation
Your neurodivergent practice workspace
What this space is for, and the quickest way into it.
Start here
What this space is for
A place to work out what to do differently, in the situation you are actually in.
This Practice Support Hub helps you move from understanding neurodivergence to applying it in everyday practice.
Use the tools, activities and resources to think differently about communication, behaviour, sensory experience, executive functioning and reasonable adjustments.
Start with ND Monsters
ND Monsters: Understand. Adjust. Thrive. is an interactive practice experience that helps you explore assumptions, behaviours and situations in a practical way.
Use it as a starting point, then explore the wider hub based on what is useful to you.
You do not have to work through everything in order. Start with what is useful to you.
Where would you like to start?
Four ways in
Start with what you need right now.
You might be dealing with a situation, trying to understand what you are seeing, looking for something practical to try, or wanting to learn more. Pick the route that fits and move between them whenever you need to.
I need help with a situation
Start here if you have a real practice situation in front of you, such as missed appointments, overwhelm, apparent disengagement or communication difficulties.
I want to understand what I’m seeing
Explore what might sit underneath behaviour, including communication, sensory experience, masking, executive functioning and distress.
I need ideas for what to change
Find practical ideas for reasonable adjustments, communication, environment and support that you can try in everyday practice.
I want to learn and reflect
Use ND Monsters, CPD activities, supervision and reflective resources to deepen your understanding and develop your practice.
Something is happening in practice
Start from the situation, not the label
Real questions practitioners bring, and the tools and resources that help with them.
Start with what is happening
Practice questions
Real situations practitioners bring to us. Each one opens into what might be going on and what tends to help.
Practice questions for this area are being written and reviewed. They will appear here once approved.
Use something now
Ready to use now
Tools, briefings, visual summaries and practice cards for this area. Everything here opens on its own page, so you can see what it is before signing in.
Tools and resources for this area are being prepared. They will appear here as they are added, and nothing else on this page depends on them.
Slow the thinking down
Notice, wonder, ask, adapt, review
A way to work through a situation, and the themes running underneath it.
Work it through
A way to work it through
The pathway for this area is being written.
Understand it
What this area covers
The themes running underneath everything else here. Use them to find your way around, not as a syllabus to work through.
The themes for this area are being set up.
Whose experience this is
Lived experience and public information
What neurodivergent people want practitioners to understand, and material written for people and families.
Hear it
What neurodivergent people want practitioners to understand
Lived experience belongs throughout this space, not in one box at the bottom of the page.
This section will hold contributions from neurodivergent people, published with their consent and in their own words. It will also appear alongside the practice questions and resources, so what people say sits next to the practice it speaks to.
Nothing is published here until a real person has said it and agreed to it being shared.
Contributions are being gathered.
For anyone
If you are not a practitioner
Some of this is written for people who are neurodivergent themselves, and for families, carers and advocates.
Plain-language information is being written for this area, including what reasonable adjustment means in practice, how to prepare for meetings and assessments, how to tell a professional what helps you, and questions you are entitled to ask.
It will appear here as it is published, and it will be readable without an account.
Public information for this area is in preparation.