Session Overview
Understanding and Supporting Mental Health in Neurodivergent Learners
This webinar equips school staff with the skills to recognise and respond effectively to the mental health needs of neurodivergent children. You’ll leave the session with immediately implementable strategies to create supportive, inclusive environments, without adding to your workload. The session will also help you build empathy by understanding the lived experiences of neurodivergent children, enabling you to make small but powerful changes to your daily practice that truly make a difference.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify how anxiety and mental health challenges present in neurodivergent children.
- Apply practical strategies to support neurodivergent wellbeing with minimal additional workload.
- Build empathy by viewing situations through a neurodivergent lens.
- Create a neuro-affirming environment through small, daily changes.
- Implement effective approaches for early years settings and family collaboration.
Resources
Tricky Moments Plan – a simple, practical tool to help young people and trusted adults plan ahead for the moments that feel hard.
Comfort Audit – designed to help you see your classroom (or other space) through the eyes of a student who struggles with sensory processing
Co-Regulation Strategies – practical, easy-to-use strategies to support children during moments of distress
What Helps Me Thrive – simple, student-friendly template helps students communicate their needs to new teachers
The Sensory Audit Checklist for Teachers – audit you can do in your own classroom to spot the sensory surprises that might be making learning harder than it needs to be for neurodivergent pupils
Feeling Safe, Calm & Happy – This download is designed to help us explore safe places, people, and things with anxious children.
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