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Neurodiverse Connection
United Kingdom
Registrace 29. 08. 2023
We are a neurodivergent-led Community Interest Company (CIC) created to improve support and outcomes for neurodivergent people. We elevate the voices of neurodivergent people to help them flourish and thrive.
Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Webinar 1: Housing and Support
Presented by Doreen Kelly and Dr Cassandra Lovelock
Joined by David Holt and Adam Russell
How the need for support impacts on the design of a person’s home; an exploration of the interplay between housing and support, and the impact of the presence of staff on people’s sensory and social processing. Examples of how the right housing design, alongside personalised support provision, can facilitate people to thrive, and a discussion about what this means for commissioners.
CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide
Joined by David Holt and Adam Russell
How the need for support impacts on the design of a person’s home; an exploration of the interplay between housing and support, and the impact of the presence of staff on people’s sensory and social processing. Examples of how the right housing design, alongside personalised support provision, can facilitate people to thrive, and a discussion about what this means for commissioners.
CONTENT WARNING: discussion of suicide
zhlédnutí: 29
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NdC In Conversation: Autistic Joy
zhlédnutí 110Před 2 měsíci
As part of our #BeyondAcceptance response to World Autism Acceptance Week, we have recorded our first In Conversation roundtable discussion with friends of Neurodiverse Connection. Kay Aldred, Adam Fare and Charli Clements join El Dewar to share their thoughts on Autistic Joy.
G&CC Webinar 11: Autistic Insights into Grooming and Exploitation Through an Intersectional Lens
zhlédnutí 28Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Warda Farah Through personal anecdotes, research findings, and community narratives, this talk explores the multifaceted challenges faced by autistic individuals, particularly those compounded by intersectionality. It will delve into the critical issues of grooming, from sexual abuse to involvement in county drug lines,...
G&CC Webinar 10: Engaging With Neurodivergent Young People Impacted By Unhealthy Relations
zhlédnutí 43Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Chaired by Meena Kumari (HOPE Training) Joined by Yasmin Blackwood (Me and my Sister), Savita Vaid (Go Getta), Luke Martin (LGBT Consultant) This webinar discusses the importance of understanding and addressing the unique needs of neurodivergent young people who are affected by coercive and controlling behaviour. Neurodivergent indi...
G&CC Webinar 9: ABA: A Coercive Therapy
zhlédnutí 64Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by El Dewar This webinar explores the relationship between coercive control and ABA, through examining ABA’s history and current day positionality. The presentation explores issues surrounding common beliefs on ABA for Autistic people and the desire for, and damaged caused by, neuronormalisation. The latter part of the pre...
G&CC Webinar 8: Online Harms, Grooming and Coercion
zhlédnutí 27Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Rod Landman This webinar will address recent learning concerning online harms and threats centred on grooming with a focus on Autism and Learning Disabilities. Drawing on project work, involving experts by experience, on mate crime, sexual exploitation, social media grooming for the purposes of radicalisation, and domes...
G&CC Webinar 7: The experience of parenting South Asian neurodivergent children in modern Britain
zhlédnutí 24Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Imran Manzoor A conversation with Imran (founder of Breaking the Silence) and parents of neurodivergent young people. This conversation explores early identification and cultural responses to neurodivergence, support and support distribution. We hear about the impact and consequences of institutions that don’t understan...
G&CC Webinar 6: Working with neurodivergent perpetrators of domestic abuse
zhlédnutí 58Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Chaired by Meena Kumari (HOPE Training) Joined by Dr Nicole Renehan (Durham University) This webinar discusses two related research projects by Dr Nicole Renehan from Durham University on the criminal justice domestic violence perpetrator programme (DVPP) for England and Wales, Building Better Relationships, and an international pro...
G&CC Webinar 5: Developing inclusive criminal justice responses and support for survivors
zhlédnutí 19Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Jill Corbyn (Founder, Neurodiverse Connection) With guests Sally Adams (ISVA), Alison Jobe and Helen Williams This webinar meets with Sally Adams, Specialist Independent Sexual Violence Advocate (ISVA) and Alison Jobe and Helen Williams about their participatory research project. We will hear about the accommodations Sa...
G&CC Webinar 1: Introduction and Overview
zhlédnutí 161Před 5 měsíci
Part of the Grooming & Coercive Control Summit 2023, hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Kay Louise Aldred This Webinar discusses what autism, grooming and coercive control are. Kay outlines why autistic individuals are more at risk. What the signs and indicators of coercive control are. The webinar finishes with a discussion of when and how to act if grooming and coercive control ar...
G&CC Webinar 3: Learning from Lived Experience of Grooming and Coercive Control
zhlédnutí 60Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Jill Corbyn (Founder, Neurodiverse Connection) With guests Penni Charteress, Heather (DIVAS) and Steph (DIVAS) Heather and Steph are members of the DIVAS group supported by Peni from The Women’s Centre In Cornwall. We’ll hear about the training and improvement work that DIVAS support and hear reflections on how to ident...
G&CC Webinar 4: Supporting autistic adults who have experienced intimate violence and abuse
zhlédnutí 52Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Delivered by Dr Amy Pearson Autistic people experience violence and abuse at an alarming rate. In this talk presents findings from research, which asked autistic people themselves about how they perceive and make sense of the experience of violence, and what we can better do to support them. The aim of this research was to transcend...
G&CC Webinar 2: Supporting Neurodivergent People Impacted by Coercive and Controlling Behaviour
zhlédnutí 65Před 5 měsíci
Part of the G&CC Summit 2023 hosted by Neurodiverse Connection Chaired by Meena Kumari (HOPE Training) Guests Naomi Donald and Bridie Anderson (Better Lives Training and Consultancy) This webinar discusses the crucial intersection of neurodivergence and the challenges posed by adult survivors experiencing coercive control and grooming. This webinar explores the unique vulnerabilities neurodiver...
Kay Presents: Containment
zhlédnutí 81Před 8 měsíci
Kay Louise Aldred demonstrates the Containment technique. This simple technique helps to reduce overwhelm due to external sensory overload or intense emotions and sensations. It is a go-to emergency resource for processing fight, flight, freeze and fawn nervous system activation. It contains and calms your body and reduces the stress response.
Kay Presents: ABC Anchor Breath Connect
zhlédnutí 68Před 8 měsíci
Kay Louise Aldred demonstrates the Anchor, Breathe, Connect (ABC) technique. This simple ABC technique will help to build capacity and nervous system regulation so that you are able to tolerate more intense emotions and sensations and process the stress response in your body more easily. Further information about Kay's Neurodivergent Wellbeing Approach course can be found here: ndconnection.co....