Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice

What you'll learn

• Distinguish neurodiversity-affirming from deficit-based models
• Apply affirming language and approaches
• Recognise and reduce harmful practices

Course modules

6 modules, each mapped to a Bloom's Taxonomy level so the learning ladders from recall to real-world practice.

1. 1

   Two models, side by side

   Bloom: Understand

   Medical and social models, and where each is useful.

2. 2

   The cost of masking

   Bloom: Understand

   Compliance that looks like progress and is not.

3. 3

   Language audit

   Bloom: Apply

   Rewrite five real report extracts into affirming language.

4. 4

   Harmful practices

   Bloom: Analyse

   Identify practices that suppress rather than support.

5. 5

   Justifying your approach

   Bloom: Evaluate

   Defend an affirming decision to a sceptical colleague.

6. 6

   Practice redesign

   Bloom: Create

   Redesign one routine in your setting from the ground up.

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