Some of your autistic and ADHD learners are struggling quietly, and the ones who mask or have no diagnosis are the easiest to miss. This session helps you spot the quieter signs and make small changes that help from the very next lesson.

A child who doesn’t feel they belong can’t settle to learn, and when trust breaks the usual approaches often make it worse. This session covers how to build trust fast, repair relationships when they break, and where to put your effort with a particular child.

Practical guidance for school staff on recognising and responding to eating difficulties in neurodivergent learners. Covers the range from sensory selectivity and ARFID to PICA and anxiety-driven restriction, with strategies for knowing when to worry, how to respond supportively, and what actually helps in the classroom.

Practical strategies for the adults supporting anxious and neurodivergent children who find school hard, where what looks like won’t is often can’t. Using the five domains of safety, physical, sensory, social, emotional and cognitive, it shows how small changes to environment, communication and the way we show up can lower anxiety and rebuild trust.

For parents and carers of children who feel rejection, criticism or failure far more intensely than most. A short, practical session on what rejection sensitivity is, why it hits so hard, and three things you can do differently: meeting the moment, softening how hard messages arrive, and making it easy to come back together afterwards.

For SENCOs in primary and secondary settings as autistic students move from Year 6 to Year 7, the point where many who seemed to be coping start to struggle. Practical, research-informed ideas for leading with strengths, making an unfamiliar school feel known before September, and putting a named, trusted adult in place so no student is left to manage the move alone.