Evolution not Revolution
Neurodivergent Practice: From Curiosity to Meaningful Adjustments
A structured 3-hour Neurodivergent Practice Support CPD pathway to help you move from recognising neurodivergence beyond stereotypes.
- 3 hours CPD
- 6 stages
- Certificate on completion
Free with a Portal account
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A structured 3-hour Neurodivergent Practice Support CPD pathway to help you move from recognising neurodivergence beyond stereotypes to applying more thoughtful, inclusive and defensible practice. Across six connected activities, you will explore lived experience, executive functioning, communication, reasonable adjustments, critical reflection and applied professional judgement, moving through recognise, explore, understand, adapt, reflect and apply.
Who it is for
- Practitioners
- Supervisors and managers
- Teams
- Students and newly qualified
- People, families and carers
What you will be able to do
- Distinguish observation from interpretation and challenge assumptions about behaviour, communication, engagement, independence and capability in neurodivergent practice.
- Explain how executive-function, sensory, processing, communication and environmental demands can create hidden load and affect participation, performance and everyday functioning.
- Use curiosity and lived-experience-informed enquiry to understand individual preferences, strengths, barriers, communication, sensory needs and support requirements without diagnosing from behaviour.
- Identify how language, framing, professional interpretation and service processes can shape assessment, risk formulation, inclusion and access for neurodivergent people.
- Identify and propose neuroaffirming, proportionate adjustments to communication, information, environment, pace, task demands and professional processes.
- Evaluate whether adjustments have been implemented and whether they improved access, participation, understanding or wellbeing, revising the approach where needed.
- Critically analyse multi-agency, organisational and systemic factors that can amplify risk or create barriers, including cumulative risk, information-sharing, continuity, escalation and professional challenge.
- Integrate observation, curiosity, agency, professional responsibility, adjustment, review and reflective practice into a defensible neuroinclusive response and identify a change to own practice.
What you will explore
Stage 1: RECOGNISE
What am I really seeing?
Begin by looking beyond stereotypes and behaviour alone. Stay curious about the person, their context, experiences and strengths before deciding what something means.
Complete each stage to reveal the next. 5 more stages to come.