Autism: Understanding the neuro-affirmative approach ‘A practical application for families and people supporting autistic children and young people’
There is a current shift in how society needs to understand and support autistic individuals. Join us to learn about the neuro-affirmative approach and examples of how to embed this into everyday life, such as the language we use, and the types of support we could give. Ultimately, join us in taking a first step in enabling autistic children and young people to be their best, authentic selves.
This workshop will be delivered by Rachel Waggett and Dr Huarda Valdes-Laribi – Speech and Language Therapists.
This workshop runs from 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Rachel specialises in working with autistic children and young people’ and social communication and interaction differences. Rachel enjoys working with all age ranges but have a passion for early intervention.
Rachel became a speech and language therapist as communication underpins everything we do. Enabling others to communicate more effectively is the most rewarding career, she love working with children, young people and their families to develop their confidence and communication skills.
Huarda specialises in social communication and neurodiversity. She draws from a range of tools and approaches to support neurodivergent children and young people in building on their strengths in communication and advocating for their needs in a collaborative and neurodiversity-affirming way.
Developing our full potential in communication is central to well-being and to creating safe and meaningful connections with other humans. Huarda’s personal and professional experiences of diversity in all its forms have cemented her desire to create opportunities for building bridges and connections between people who communicate in different ways.
Huarda’s most cherished moments in her work are finding creativity and joy in the most unexpected places, learning from the children and young people she works with, celebrating joint discoveries and having the privilege to figuratively walk, skip or dance alongside them for the duration of her work together.