Neurodiversity affirming care: Part 1 presented by Lydia Meem BA(Psych)Hons MPsych(Clin) MAPS CClin
Understanding, celebrating and accommodating Autistic and ADHDer brain styles
Adopting a neurodiversity affirming approach creates more opportunities for neurodivergent people to feel understood, celebrated, and accommodated in nutrition healthcare settings. Lydia Meem shares lived-experience perspectives on preferred language, communication styles and environment considerations. Developing an understanding of autistic and ADHDer brain styles provides the foundation for Part 2: Building a toolkit for respectful and responsive care.
Learn about:
- A strengths-based approach and other principles of neurodiversity affirming practice
- “The double empathy problem” - it reframes deficits to differences and is a bi-directional empathy gap between autistic and non-autistic people
- How ASD is an example of older language- get to know the affirming alternatives that are preferred by autistic people
The presentation will cover:
- Core principles
- Language
- How neuronormative healthcare (dietetics) misses the mark and /or causes harm
- Internalised presentation of autism and ADHD - subtle signs you might otherwise miss
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Lydia Meem is a neurodivergent clinical psychologist and a Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, who has been working with neurodivergent people for more than 25 years. Lydia offers clinical supervision and training for health professionals around neurodiversity affirming practice with autistic and ADHDer clients, and clients with intellectual disability. Lydia hosts the Neurodivergent Clinician Symposium, with an all-neurodivergent line-up of health professionals sharing from both their clinical expertise and lived experience. She created the Neurodiversity Affirming Clinician online learning hub, with more than 50 hours of CPD for health professionals wanting to ensure their practice is neurodiversity affirming.