Autistic young people with a PDA profile have an anxiety driven need to feel autonomous and in control. Demand and expectations hieghten anxiety and lead to demand avoidanct or dysregulated behavious. Partiularly when out dated, punitive and authoritaarian approaches are in place. For the parents and professionals supporting them, a deep understanding alongside some positive approaches are essential to help these young people towards a happy, healthy and successful life.
Awareness is just one step. It must be attached to acceptance and then there is a better chance of making the right adjustments.
I have had the prividge to work with and support hundreds of Autistic young people with a PDA profile and their families since 2007. Meeting and working with PDA young people completely changed my approach and helped me form the basis of the Neurodive approach. Working with parents has shaped and inspired my own parenting styles and goals. It has also given me the opportunity to support so many different families and young people, as well as staff in schools and organisations and gain a huge amount or expereinces, apporaches and strategies. As well as being able to see their effectiveness in practice and give me stories and examples I can and will share in the webinar.
In this webinar, I will try to support attendee's to develop their understanding of PDA young people whatever their starting point. From those new to their understanding to those with a deep expereince and understanding, there will be provide and new ideas or at the very least, new takes on the things you know and ways to put that understanding into support approaches.
I will also breakdown and provide activites to identify and practice those support strategies I have found most effective in the last few decades. With plenty of time to ask questions if attending life and a chance to send them ahead of time to be answered for the recording, this webinar is both a great starting point or refrehser with some new takes and ideas for any parent or professional supporting an PDA young person.
