Think Different Consulting
Thinking differently about difference.
Offering advice, support and guidance to neurodivergent children, young people, their families and schools, with a focus on getting education right.
Change your mind – not the child.
What we offer
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Helping you to secure the right educational approach for your child.
Supporting your child to understand their own unique strengths and challenges as a neurodivergent individual.
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Bespoke advice around the needs of individual students – those who have been identified as neurodivergent (with a particular focus on autism and ADHD) and those who are yet to be formally identified.
We can observe students, attend meetings, collate information from a range of professionals, help provide training to help staff better understand and respond to the needs of neurodivergent students and work directly with students to gain their perspective.
“Sadie and her team are the most knowledgeable, understanding and accepting neurodivergent advisory professionals we have ever had the privilege to work with.”
“I go to a lot more lessons now. The group Sadie set up helped me get more comfortable with the school because it’s given me a group of people who I can trust and talk to. It’s a space where I don’t have to mask and can be myself.”
Our ethos
At Think Different Consulting, we embrace neurodivergence as a natural and valuable form of human diversity. Being neuroaffirmative means we build on strengths and celebrate difference rather than trying to ‘fix’ perceived deficits.
We challenge the idea that neurodivergent students should learn how to fit into the neurotypical world. Instead, our mission is to shape the world to become a more neuroinclusive and neuroaffirmative place.
Through listening to neurodivergent children, young people and adults, we offer a different way to think about the support needed – by changing minds, not children.
Why choose Think Different Consulting?
✓ Expertise and decades of collective experience working in primary and secondary mainstream schools and specialist schools and facilities.
✓ Proven track record of successful support to schools, parent/caregivers and young people across the South East.
✓ Up-to-date, progressive, neuroaffirmative thinking is embedded in all of our work.
✓ We have a detailed understanding of the SEN system, including funding, common challenges and practical solutions.
✓ We have expertise in working with children and young people (ages 4-21) who are formally identified as neurodivergent, are on the pathway to diagnosis or identify as such.
✓ As independent specialists, we can give honest opinions on the suitability of education placement and advise where else might better meet a child or young person’s needs, if required.
“Sadie’s knowledge, compassion and teaching ability are unparalleled. In the years I have worked in this sector, Sadie has been the greatest influence and source of knowledge I have come across. I truly believe I am better at my job for having met and worked with Sadie.”
Contact us
Families: please get in touch by completing the enquiry form below.
Educators: please click Contact Us in the “Working with educators” page.
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