Neuro-Affirming Support for Your Autistic Young Person at School

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📘 Empowering Advocacy: Neuro-Affirming Support for Your Autistic Young Person at School
By Helen Edgar, Tanya Adkin, and David Gray-Hammond
Part of the Autistic Wellbeing Series

This accessible, 67-page guide is an essential resource for parents, carers, and educators advocating for Autistic children in school. Rooted in lived experience and up to date neurodivergent-led theory, Empowering Advocacy offers clear, compassionate, and practical guidance for navigating educational systems that often fail to recognise the needs of neurodivergent learners.

With sections covering monotropism, sensory and emotional queuing regulation, reasonable adjustments, school refusal, masking, lily-padding, and the double empathy problem, this e-book reframes common challenges through a neuro-affirming lens. It includes:

• Practical strategies to support regulation, learning, and transitions

• A 9-step advocacy checklist for parents and carers

• A school-friendly template letter for requesting support

• A collaborative child voice conversation guide

• Legal insights into the Equality Act 2010 and EHCPs

• A wealth of free resources and supportive organisations

Whether you’re attending your first SEND meeting or looking to challenge outdated systems with clarity and confidence, we hope that this guide will help you advocate effectively without losing yourself in the process.