These slides were developed for a webinar in Spring 2025.
Here’s the 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 gain valuable insights into how anxiety and other mental health challenges present in neurodivergent learners and how to tailor your support to meet their needs.
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.
If you were there, I hope these are a helpful aide-memoire. If not, I hope they make enough sense without me to be useful. If you’d like to download them, you can do so via this page on Patreon.
Further Resources
Here are some further resources you might find helpful to build on the session:
- DOWNLOAD: Co-Regulation Strategies to Sooth, Support and Strengthen
- DOWNLOAD: Breathing Techniques
- DOWNLOAD: Comfort Audit
- DOWNLOAD: Academic Anxiety Coping Statements
- DOWNLOAD: School Access Plan
- DOWNLOAD: Mood Trackers
- DOWNLOAD: If… Then… Planning Worksheet
- VIDEO | Listening – Why you should walk and talk not stare and scare
- VIDEO | How to be an Adult Who Makes Children Feel Safe
- VIDEO | Feather Breathing
- PODCAST | How to Appear Calm When You Don’t Feel It
- 6 In 60 | Self-Soothe Ideas
- 6 In 60 | Emotional Regulation at School for Autistic Students
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