A Therapist’s Guide to Neurodiversity Affirming Practice with Children and Young People

The go-to-guide for shifting your clinical practice to an affirming approach that honours neurodivergence

Explore how you can become a neurodiversity affirming clinician. With advice on presuming competence, self-advocacy and reframing behaviours, this book offers everything you need to start implementing neurodiversity affirming protocols into your practice.

In this honest and practical guide, autistic therapist Raelene Dundon explores and demystifies how neurodiversity affirming principles can be easily applied to therapeutic practice.

Covering essential considerations for working with neurodivergent clients such as presuming competence, promoting autonomy and respecting communication styles, and providing advice on the best affirming approaches in therapy including how to accommodate sensory needs and encourage self-advocacy, Raelene provides easy-to-implement ways to make your practice inclusive and empowering for neurodivergent children and young people.

The deficit model is out. It's time to become neurodiversity affirming.