We can work one-to-one with children and young people to help them understand and embrace their neurodivergent identity.

Using a positive, strengths-based approach, our mentoring specifically focuses on: 


• Building positive neurodivergent identity: Helping children and young people embrace their authentic selves, including by recognising their sensory, social and learning strengths and preferences.

• Understanding anxiety and overwhelm by developing personalised regulation strategies.

• Creating pathways forward: Exploring educational options, courses and next steps that align with a child or young person’s individual strengths and interests. We will also discuss neuroaffirmative thinking and concepts, such as double empathy and monotropism, and support discussions around the differences and similarities between neurotypes.

We can offer your child or young person a place in a small, weekly/fortnightly social group, consisting of no more than three other neurodivergent children or young people with aligned interests and social communication preferences.

Being part of a group can help your child or young person to:

• experience meaningful social connections which may lead to friendships

• experience social success

• better understand themselves within the context of neurodivergence

• discuss within a safe and supportive group any challenges they face in relation to anxiety, social interactions and sensory differences

• get practical support and advice from the group facilitator on how to understand or manage these challenges

• increase their feelings of self-worth, self-confidence and self-esteem

We can provide supporting evidence for your child or young person’s EHCP review and/or offer guidance to your child or young person’s school on how best to support them (if they don’t have an EHCP or you are in the process of applying for one).

We do this by observing your child or young person in school or at home then providing a written report in an EHCP format (covering Sections B, E and F), which will identify your child or young person’s needs, the provision required and the most effective objectives to set.

The report will describe changes to the environment, activities and staff approaches, which need to happen to give your child or young person the support they need, rather than suggesting what could be done to help your child or young person ‘fit in’.

We can attend meetings with you as a Neuroaffirmative SEND Consultant. In those meetings we can give our professional opinion about the needs of your child or young person and the provision they require.

We can provide a 30 or 60 minute online consultation for you to discuss whatever you want to in relation to your child or young person. You may want to discuss what is happening at home or school. We can talk you through what might be going on with your child or young person and suggest supportive strategies for you to try. You could also use a consultation to get advice on what your child or young person may need educationally, or find out how your child or young person’s mentoring sessions are going. The time is yours to get whatever support and advice you need.

If your child or young person is often dysregulated at home, we can help you to understand why (using a neuroaffirmative lens) and give you some practical strategies to address whatever is happening. Typical areas parent/carers ask for support with are: sensory needs, sibling relationships, getting ready for school in the morning, going to bed, transitions (from home to school or in community spaces like the supermarket or public transport), or a number of these things. As an additional service, we can provide written notes from our meeting so you have a summary of the key strategies discussed.

We can complete a professional observation or meet your child or young person at home or their place of learning and provide verbal or written feedback on the likelihood that they are autistic and/or ADHD. Although we cannot offer an official diagnosis, we have extensive knowledge and experience of working with neurodivergent children and young people and can provide our professional opinion. As an additional service, we can provide a summary of our observations, which you can then use as evidence if you seek a formal assessment.