Neurodiversity support tool being trialled

JessieJ
JessieJ Community Member Posts: 1,386 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: 15,450 Championing

    well done for being the last person post yesterday

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 5,692 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

  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Community Member Posts: 1,386 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.

  • Ross1975
    Ross1975 Community Member Posts: 1,617 Championing
    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? 🤔

  • Kali85
    Kali85 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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