Friendly Neurons

13/05/2026

The Kaboom Kit is a hit! 🎉
Not sure who is enjoying it more though…our OT or the kids… 🤭😄

Thoroughly enjoying the Tiny Science Lab kits! 🥇

12/05/2026

Things are about to get real, so many possibilities! 🤩🥳

08/05/2026

What are your child’s values? 🤔

One of the things we explore in Dynamic Parenting that often creates lasting change is understanding values.

Not just our own as parents. Our child's too.

They're not always the same.

When there's a significant gap between what we value and what our child values, we can end up putting in a lot of effort and still feeling like we're missing each other.

Understanding what drives our child, what matters to them, what makes them feel genuinely respected, seen and understood changes how we parent them. It gives us a way into a collaboration, that isn't about compliance or correction.

It's about actually knowing who they are.

Even if our child can't tell us their values directly, they're showing us all the time.

In what regulates them. In what lights them up. In what shuts them down. In what they'll fight for.

When we learn to read that, everything gets a bit clearer.

This is the work inside Dynamic Parenting.
Head to https://www.neurodivergenteducation.com.au/ to learn more.

29/04/2026

Let’s keep growing our understanding of School Can’t so we as a society can help these precious children and eliminate barriers.👍

28/04/2026

A good question to ask when kids need to talk about stuff that is bothering them. ☺️
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18aJb51DkC/

13/04/2026

You are enough. ❤️

07/04/2026

This 👇🙌

Something that people seem to forget, is just how valuable lived experience perspectives are. And just like any other consultant, they should be paid for their time and effort.

I’ve done numerous free focus groups, NHS advisory boards, and research project groups. Mostly because they needed accurate representation and neuroaffirming input so that good change can be made. But I’ve realised over the years that there is a massive lack of any compensation or even thinking about paying Autistic people (or other people for appropriate lived experience work).

You wouldn’t ask someone to design your website for free. You wouldn’t ask someone to do your taxes for free. You wouldn’t ask someone to give their professional opinion for free. So why do so many people and organisations reach out to Autistic/neurodivergent/disabled people asking them to take part in their focus groups or help them with their work on a voluntary basis?

Pay them like you would anyone else. In fact, to avoid the need to bring in outside help why don’t you just hire people with lived experience? Instead we are seen as tools to make them look more inclusive, or to appeal to a wider audience (usually not even credited for doing their work for them).

If you can’t afford it, then don’t ask for someone’s help. If you can afford to pay other people but don’t pay lived experience people then you are treating them as less. Be better than that.

06/04/2026

Engaging in occupations that bring joy, health, and wellbeing are SO important for us all! 🎉

22/03/2026

Teeth that “haven’t been brushed in five years!” 😱🤯😂

11/03/2026

OT in action today! 🌳 Brilliant day.

09/03/2026

“Real resilience grows from attachment, safety, and connection.”

We often talk about resilience as if it means 'toughing it out' or 'pushing through'. But for Autistic people, real resilience doesn’t come from being hardened.

🌱 It grows from attachment, safety, and connection 🌱

When we feel understood, supported, and nurtured, we develop the ability to cope with challenges in ways that are sustainable and authentic. Resilience is relational, not about enduring discomfort alone.

Supporting Autistic people means providing safety, trust, and consistent connection - the foundation where true resilience can flourish. 💫

🔗 To learn more about the development of resilience, copy and paste this link to our article: https://reframingautism.org.au/the-development-of-resilience-requires-attachment-and-nurture-not-desensitisation/



[ID: Against an aqua background, with the Reframing Autism logo in the top left corner and the colourful knotwork in the lower right corner, white text reads, 'Real resilience grows from attachment, safety, and connection'. Beneath the text is an image of a child learning to ride a bike with his mother offering support, beside him.]