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Six Principles and a Room
An Essay — Foundations An ethic you can only point at a person is an ethic that will keep finding the fault in the person.
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Three More Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients
A few of you told me how helpful ‘Three Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients: Practical support for Autistic and ADHD adults’ was, so here are a few more. Whether you’re Autistic/ADHD…
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Six-Point Framework For Supporting Autistic People | NeuroHub Community
An exploration of the six-point framework that underlies NeuroHub Community's work with Autistic people. This video goes through each domain of the framework and explores how it can be applied to an…
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Three Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients
If I were to include every resource I signpost to in my work as a counsellor it would be a very extensive list. Nothing works for everyone, even if the topic covered feels highly relevant. But the…
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Is CBT suitable for Autistic people?
This article is a combination of, and expansion on, posts originally published on my Facebook page. We’re often told that CBT isn’t suitable for Autistic people. Is this true? CBT stands for…
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Spotlight on Multisensory Aphantasia and the Therapy That Assumes Too Much with Sassy Smith, Founder of Aphantasia Academy and Author of Unseen Minds
Sassy Smith is founder of Aphantasia Academy, a UK-based training and education platform specialising in invisible cognitive differences including aphantasia, severely deficient autobiographical…
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Penguin Pebbling: Theory, Practice and the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions — A Guide for Practitioners
Penguin Pebbling is a low-demand, neurodiversity-affirming card game built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions — five relational modes natural to many Autistic and neurodivergent people:…
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Neuro-Affirming Practice Is Not a Framework. It’s a Way of Being.
Neuro-affirming practice isn't a framework or a checklist. It's about being human — kind, compassionate, and truly present with people, just as they are.
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Presuming Competence: A Neuro-Affirming Reframe To Support Autistic People
When “presume competence” is applied without a neuro-affirming lens, it can become a harmful, ableist expectation
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Creating Autistic Safety and Belonging: 10 Ideas for Neurodivergent Competency
10 Principles of Neuro-Affirming Practice: Building Neurodivergent Competency Together
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Neurodivergence & Social Care (Part 1)- David with Tanya Adkin & Rachel Gavin
In this first part of our two part special on neurodivergence and social care, David will be talking to Tanya Adkin (Assistant Social Worker) and Rachel Gavin (Independent Social Worker) of ND Social…