Parent: Empowering Parents to Support Neurodiverse Children


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Parents


10:00 - 10:45
Caroline Bateman

STOP Dyslexic Learners Underperforming

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Dyslexia : Parents
10:00 - 10:45
Caroline Bateman

STOP Dyslexic Learners Underperforming

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Dyslexia : Parents
11:00 - 11:45
Paloma Forde - Dyslexia Support Services

Dyslexia - How to get RIGHT support for your child?

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Is your child struggling with dyslexia and you're unsure how to get the right support? You're not alone, and there is hope! In this 45-minute session, I will walk you through the essential steps to ensure your child receives the best possible support at school and beyond.

As a parent, it’s crucial to understand how dyslexia affects your child's learning and what resources are available to help them succeed. I will share practical strategies for working with teachers and other professionals to create an effective support plan tailored to your child’s unique needs. Whether it's finding the right classroom accommodations, utilizing assistive technologies, or exploring extra-curricular learning tools, you'll gain insights into what works best for your child.

You will also learn how to boost your child's confidence by focusing on their strengths and encouraging their progress. Empowering your child with the right support can lead to improvements in their academic performance & well being.

Join me for this informative session to discover how you can navigate dyslexia support and ensure your child thrives in a learning environment designed for their success. Don't miss out on valuable insights that will make a real difference in your child’s educational journey.

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Dyslexia : Parents
14:00 - 14:45
Paloma Forde - Dyslexia Support Services

Dyslexia - How to get RIGHT support for your child?

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Dyslexia : Parents
15:00 - 15:45
Toni Horn

From Struggles to Strengths: Supporting Your Dyslexic Child

This presentation provides parents with strategies to support dyslexic children, focusing on understanding dyslexia, fostering confidence, and using practical learning techniques. It emphasizes strengths, emotional well-being, and assistive tools.

  • Defining dyslexia, its signs, and how it affects learning without impacting intelligence.
  • Breaking down learning into manageable chunks, using visual aids, and encouraging independent thinking.
  • The importance of open communication, praise, and celebrating small achievements to boost confidence.
  • Using text-to-speech software, audiobooks, dyslexia-friendly materials, and customised formatting for better reading and comprehension.
  • Working with teachers and SEND support to provide consistent learning strategies and accommodations.

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Dyslexia : Parents
15:00 - 15:45
Toni Horn

From Struggles to Strengths: Supporting Your Dyslexic Child

This presentation provides parents with strategies to support dyslexic children, focusing on understanding dyslexia, fostering confidence, and using practical learning techniques. It emphasizes strengths, emotional well-being, and assistive tools.

  • Defining dyslexia, its signs, and how it affects learning without impacting intelligence.
  • Breaking down learning into manageable chunks, using visual aids, and encouraging independent thinking.
  • The importance of open communication, praise, and celebrating small achievements to boost confidence.
  • Using text-to-speech software, audiobooks, dyslexia-friendly materials, and customised formatting for better reading and comprehension.
  • Working with teachers and SEND support to provide consistent learning strategies and accommodations.

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Dyslexia : Parents
11:00 - 11:45
Kirsty Heap

Empowering Parenthood: Navigating Family Neurodiversity

  • Turning dyslexia into a parenting asset– embrace your strengths.
  • Building self-confidence – nurture resilience and positive self-talk in children.
  • Breaking the stigma – reshape how dyslexia is seen at home.
  • Practical tools for parents – support neurodivergent and neurotypical children alike.
  • Empowering future generations – teach life skills schools often overlook.
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Discover Kirsty's compelling insights into parenting as a dyslexic raising both dyslexic and neurotypical children. In this enlightening talk, Kirsty reveals how she used her dyslexic strengths to adapt her parental style, fostering self-confidence, positive mindset, and empowering self-talk crucial for her children's development. She shares her journey of transforming negative perceptions of dyslexia into a positive force, ensuring her dyslexic and self-diagnosed ADHD son thrives without the stigma she faced. Kirsty offers practical tools and ideas for navigating parenthood, equipping parents to support their children with essential life skills often overlooked in schools.  Kirsty will empower you with strategies for fostering resilience and celebrating neurodiversity in family life.

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Neurodiversity Theatre
12:15 - 13:00
Liz Day

Mental Health in Neurodivergent Young People

  • Mental health in young people
  • Mental health literacy as a protective factor
  • Neurodiversity
  • Seeking external help
  • The bigger picture

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Neurodiversity Theatre
15:00 - 15:45
Tessa Halliwell

Autism: pain, purpose and participation in the world.

  • Autism value
  • Non-autistic understanding of autism
  • Common life concepts; mutual understanding
  • Abstract concepts become concrete
  • Freedom from confusion.
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Where there is misunderstanding and confusion there is fear. For many autistic individuals this affects their ability to engage effectively in a non- autistic world. There is a new paradigm that recognises that autism has value for all of humanity. For that potential to be realised there needs to be mutual understanding and a common way of being. This can be achieved by the shared knowledge of certain life concepts that pertain to both autistics and non-autistics. Concepts such as ‘change’, ‘time’, ‘responsibility’, or ‘we’.
These and other concepts were identified by an autistic man, Ron Davis, as the necessary ideas that would enable an autistic individual to participate if they choose.
Davis methods make these abstract concepts concrete so they are easily applied in everyday events. These concepts are reliable, they give certainty. Freedom from confusion, means freedom from fear, means freedom to choose to be.

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Neurodiversity Theatre