Neurodiversity support tool being trialled

JessieJ
JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,333 Championing
in Autism and neurodiversity

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/25920470.neurodiversity-support-tool-trialled-southampton/?ref=rss&IYA-reg=72b73f1d-37e9-4563-9081-0fb834e6272a

Great & will save a lot of wasted time for many if it proves its worth.

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  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 15,455 Championing

    well done for being the last person post yesterday

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,096 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    This is really interesting, thank you for sharing @JessieJ. Sounds like it could be really helpful for a lot of children and their families

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 424 Connected

    Why is everything geared towards children? Don't they know there's also neurodiverse ADULTS who'd use it?

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,333 Championing

    As it's a trial, @SheffieldMan1976, here's hoping that it expands if it proves to work. At least they have come up with something new, which is needed to cut down on assessment times, so less fall through the net.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 424 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1108581#Comment_1108581

    Well yebbut so do us older folk surely?

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Online Community Member Posts: 725 Trailblazing
    edited March 12
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1108581#Comment_1108581

    [Removed by moderator] of course it's obvious and I'm sure it's obvious to SheffieldMan, but it's also obvious that adults also have a chance of benefitting from medicine too, so the question still remains why gear things just towards children when it can also be beneficial to adults? 🤔

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,699 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1108592#Comment_1108592

    It's an interesting article. It's a tool specifically designed for early use (children) which is a new approach looking at the child's strengths and interests first before considering the challenges they face, then going on to assessment and potential diagnosis.

    I've very little knowledge of it but with a two year plus waiting list currently, if it's successful it has the potential to enhance greatly, children's education (and their future). It's just a different method and has not been designed for use in adults whose assessments will be as they are currently.

  • Kali85
    Kali85 Online Community Member Posts: 141 Empowering

    That’s brilliant news as neurodivergent children need extra support and hopefully they will grow up with a more positive approach, hopefully helping them to navigate life as an adult in a neurotypical world abit easier. I love that they are trying a different approach, looking into their strengths instead of just focusing on their negatives.
    I was diagnosed later in life with Audhd and navigating life has been unbearably hard, especially when everything is always focused on my weaknesses and struggles, highlighting all the reasons why I do not fit in with society, making me feel like I don’t belong anywhere, as I am the problem.
    I have never even thought of my strengths being neurodivergent, just always seen neurodivergence as a curse, as living with my brain like this for 41 years is exhausting and completely soul crushing, many times I just wanted to give up!
    Neurodivergent adults deserve support/help too as we have been struggling every single second of everyday. And very sadly a lot won’t make it through without help. Any kind of research/studies into neurodivergence is a step forward in helping us all I sincerely hope 💜

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