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Our Webinars

Providing free, educational webinars is one of our core goals at Neurodiversity Ireland. We want to empower parents and carers with the knowledge and confidence they need to support and connect with their neurodivergent children. In addition, we have opened the first pilot Sensory Centre in Ireland, supported by Aviva, and are now offering OT-led camps and after school clubs for neurodivergent children.

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Language Development in Neurodivergent & Other Gestalt Language Processors

MARGE BLANC

A Conversation with Marge Blanc, author of Natural Language Acquisition on the Autism Spectrum: the Journey from Echolalia to Self-Generated Language. Marge has been a clinical Speech and Language practitioner for 50 years, and reports loving every minute of it! During the years after the book was published (2012), Marge’s clinic has slowly morphed into a resource centre dedicated to sharing the word about gestalt language development with the world. And, it appears to be working!

Supporting links: Preschool Handout, Developmental Sentence Types, Developmental Sentence Analysis, Natural Language Acquisition Assessment, Using the Natural Language Acquisition Protocol to Support Gestalt Language Development

The Occupation of Play

Meghan O’Rourke & Jack Cairns

Our wonderful CORU registered occupational therapists Meghan O’Rourke and Jack Cairns give their invaluable insights into the theory of occupational therapy and how you can help to support your child at home. An introduction to neurodiversity and being neuroaffirmative! This is an ideal resources for school staff and therapists too!

The Occuplaytional Therapist

Kelsie Olds

As more and more parents, caregivers, and adults start undertaking the work of helping the next generation of children feel safe to express their feelings rather than repeat unhealthy habits from the past, it can be hard knowing where to begin or which way is up. Co-regulation, self-regulation, interoception, what do these words mean? What does processing emotions actually look like in practice? When should children have developed which emotional skills, and how do adults help them on the way? These are some of the really powerful and important questions that Kelsie Olds, who goes by The Occuplaytional Therapist online, tackles during this webinar

AAC Clinic & Neurodiversity

CJay Smith

CJay is an AuDHDer in her final year student at TU Dublin studying Information Systems & Information Technology. She’s Autistic, Dyslexic, and works in an autistic school. CJay is currently working to develop assistive technology informed by personal experience and experience working with neuro-spicy individuals. She has done award winning work in assistive technology and I’m passionate about sharing my skills with others.

In this webinar, CJay shares her knowledge about assistive technology, why it’s important, and how to use your devices, like Tobii and Grid, to best benefit the user.

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