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Neuroinclusion offers neurodiversity-affirming allied health and training across Australia. Online, clinic and in-person options available.
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We support potential, self and formally diagnosed neurodivergent individuals to thrive and embrace authenticity.

15/12/2025

6 ways to support recovery following a traumatic event 🤍

• Stay connected with people who feel safe and affirming
• Move your body in ways that feel gentle, safe, and even fun
• Be intentional with media exposure (it’s okay to limit or mute)
• Prioritise your health needs. This includes rest, nourishment, medication, routines
• Notice glimmers and moments of pleasure, however small
• Seek support when and how you need it (professional, community, cultural)

💡 Important reminder:
Traumatic events are deeply personal and experienced uniquely by each person’s nervous system. There is no “right” way or timeline to recover.

Everyone deserves equitable access to safety, care, and support following trauma. We also acknowledge that people from marginalised and minoritised communities often require additional support, while simultaneously facing greater systemic barriers to accessing it.

You are allowed to go at your own pace. Support is not a privilege.
It’s a right for all of our neurodiversity💛

11/12/2025

✨ Autistic Holiday Reminders ✨

What would you add? 👇

🏆 This season, you’re allowed to honour your needs and not everyone else’s expectations.

🎄 You don’t have to do what others expect of you
💛 Celebrations should never cost your health
🌱 Honouring your capacity is always the right choice
✨ You’re allowed to find joy in what genuinely brings you pleasure
🛑 “No” and boundaries are valid, healthy, and allowed
🐢 You can move at your own pace for events
💫 Even positive emotions can feel overwhelming and that’s okay
🤍 Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter

📅 This time of year can be loud, bright, social, and demanding, but you don’t have to be.

✅ Your needs are real.
✅ Your comfort is important.
✅ Your wellbeing comes first.

10/12/2025

In many neuronormative spaces, social cohesion is valued more highly than safety, regulation, and authentic connection. We can’t support social interactions without acknowledging that neurodivergent people feel the impact of this every day. 🌱

We see it when:
• Children are encouraged to “fit in” rather than listened to 👂
• Masking is praised as “good behaviour” 🎭
• Sensory needs are dismissed because they disrupt the group 🔊🚫
• Boundaries are overlooked to avoid “making things awkward” ⚠️

But connection without safety isn’t connection; it’s compliance. ✨

Neurodiversity-affirming practice flips the script:
✨ Safety comes first 🛟
✨ Regulation is respected, not pathologised 🌿
✨ Communication differences are embraced 💬🤝
✨ Authentic relationships are built on consent, trust, and understanding ❤️

When we prioritise wellbeing over cohesion, every identity experiences richer, more meaningful relationships. 🌈

Let’s build communities where people don’t need to shrink themselves to belong. 🤗

05/12/2025

✨ Neurodiversity-Affirming Christmas Ideas ✨

What would you add? 👇

Because the festive season should feel safe, joyful, and authentic for every neurotype. 🎄

This Christmas, we’re embracing:
✨ Access to safe, familiar and preferred foods
✨ Keeping routines where possible
✨ Comfortable clothing of their choice
✨ Co-regulation, connection and collaboration
✨ No pressure for photos or videos
✨ Fewer transitions and predictable plans
✨ Accessible sensory regulation tools
✨ Acceptance of all communication types
✨ Inclusion of preferred activities (plus downtime to enjoy them!)
✨ Space for rest and recovery
✨ Scaffolding and prompting to increase predictability
✨ Open-mindedness and willingness to learn
✨ Familiar places and flexible plans to match capacity
✨ Emotional regulation supports
✨ Social connection with neurokin
✨ Absolutely no forced affection

This season, let’s prioritise safety, autonomy and joy. We need to create festive moments that honour every nervous system. 🌈🧠

03/12/2025

✨ International Day of People with Disabilities ✨

Today is a reminder that being an ally is about action.

Being an ally means listening to disabled voices, believing lived experiences, challenging ableism (even the subtle everyday kind), and creating spaces where accessibility, inclusion, and dignity are the standard… not the afterthought.

🏆 It’s recognising that disability is a natural part of human diversity.
It’s celebrating strengths, honouring support needs, and advocating for systems that don’t require people to mask, minimise themselves, or fit into boxes that were never designed for them.

✨ To our disabled community: we see you, value you, and continue to stand beside you; not just today, but every day.

🌈 To our allies: thank you for continuing to learn, unlearn, speak up and show up. Your actions matter.

💜

02/12/2025

🌟 Holiday Closure Announcement 🌟

Neuroinclusion will be closed from 19 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 for our end-of-year break.
We’ll also be unavailable on 18 December for our annual Team Day. This means there will be no sessions on these dates.

Thank you for being part of our community and for contributing to a year filled with growth, connection, and neurodiversity-affirming practice.

From our team to yours, Happy Holidays and New Year 🎄✨
We look forward to supporting you again in 2026.

29/11/2025

🎄 Our Autistic Christmas Wishlist 🎄
Because the best gifts are the ones that honour neurology, nurture joy, and support regulation ✨

🎪 Movement Supports
Think trampolines, crash mats, lycra swings, bean bags and anything that lets bodies move, reset and feel grounded.

💎 Special Interest Storage
Shelves, labelled tubs, display cases, treasure boxes. These are practical ways to protect, organise and proudly celebrate the passions that bring so much comfort, learning and identity.

📚 Books & Cards by Autistic Creators
Representation matters. Support Autistic authors, illustrators and makers this Christmas with stories, artwork and resources created through lived experience.

🧦 Practical Everyday Items
Soft, seamless clothing, noise-reducing earplugs, scented items, and even kitchen appliances that support independence and energy conservation throughout the day.

✨ Because the most meaningful gifts are the ones that honour autonomy, uphold sensory needs, and spark genuine joy.

What would you add? 👇

24/11/2025

Neurodiversity-Affirming Support in the Perinatal Period matters more than ever 🤰🏼

🌏 We’re in the middle of a global urgent mental health crisis and neurodivergent parents and parents-to-be are carrying a disproportionate load.

🧠 This isn’t just a personal issue; it’s a systemic one that desperately needs more research, funding, services, resources and education.

💔 Too often, when a pregnant person is neurodivergent, their experiences are dismissed or incorrectly attributed to their diagnosis. Sensory overload? Anxiety? Fatigue? Communication differences? These are valid pregnancy-related concerns that deserve to be recognised, addressed and supported. These should not pathologised through a neurotypical lens.

🌈 Neurodivergent people also diverge from heterosexual and neuronormative cultural expectations. That means they need individualised, affirming, accessible perinatal supports to genuinely optimise their health and wellbeing.

⭐️ And we must name this clearly:
Because of their neurodivergent diagnosis, health professionals too often make harmful assumptions about a person’s capacity to have a physiological birth. These assumptions are not evidence-based and they are bias.

🧠 Every pregnant person deserves care that centres their needs, their body, and their neurotype.

It’s time for perinatal systems to catch up.

🎉 Neurodivergent parents deserve safety, dignity and choice especially in the perinatal period.

Grateful to learn from .learninghub .psych

20/11/2025

✨ 35 Reading & Writing Supports to Trial ✨

Every brain learns differently and reading/writing should meet each person where they’re at. 🧠

Whether you’re supporting a child, teen, or adult, small adjustments can make a huge difference in comfort, confidence and participation.✅

Here are some of the strategies we love exploring with our clients:
✏️ Modify the writing tool – pencil grips, weighted pens, slant boards, larger/smaller tools, digital options
📚 Change the text – audiobooks, text-to-speech, coloured overlays, font adjustments, simplified layouts
🌿 Modify the environment – lighting, noise, movement options, flexible seating, reduced visual load
🌀 Change the sensations – fidgets, grounding tools, sensory breaks, hand-warmers/coolers
💡 Other supports – timers, scaffolds, co-writing, mind-mapping, speech-to-text, chunking and more

💡There’s no one “right” way to read or write. It’s just what feels accessible, sustainable and affirming for that individual.

16/11/2025

New research review on sensory-based interventions (SBIs) has been published and here’s what it tells us 👇

A 2015–2024 systematic review pulled together 21 studies looking at how sensory-based interventions support children and young people (ages 1–21) with sensory processing and integration “challenges”, including Autistic and ADHD kids, those with developmental delays, and those with sensory-processing differences.

✨ What they found:
• Strong evidence for deep pressure input and caregiver-training approaches to improve daily functioning and participation.
• Moderate evidence that multi-sensory interventions (using more than one sensory system) are more effective than single-system strategies.
• Limited research on environmental changes (like lighting or noise adjustments), even though these are widely used in practice.
• Some popular strategies, like alternative seating for attention, didn’t show meaningful impact.

⚠️ What’s still unclear:
Small sample sizes, inconsistent intervention methods, varied outcome measures, and a lack of children’s own perspectives mean more high-quality research is needed. Many studies didn’t describe who delivered the intervention or whether it followed sensory-integration principles, making results harder to interpret.

🌈 Why it matters:
This review helps clarify what’s currently supported by evidence — and highlights the gaps. It reinforces that sensory support should be individualised, meaningful, and grounded in participation, not just behaviour change.

13/11/2025

Disability advocacy is complex, challenging, and deeply human. 🌈🧠

✨ It’s deeply personal — rooted in lived experience, care, and connection.
⚖️ It’s always political — because access, rights, and inclusion are shaped by systems and power.
🌱 It’s always changing and evolving — as language, understanding, and priorities grow over time.
💔 It can be traumatising — reliving harm, facing burnout, and navigating dismissal takes a toll.
⚠️ It’s risky — speaking up can expose vulnerability and provoke backlash.
🌿 It’s new and unfamiliar — reimagining systems, culture, and language is ongoing work.
🚧 It isn’t accessible to all — systemic, social, and economic barriers prevent many from participating.
🤝 It requires others — community, support, and allies make advocacy sustainable and powerful.

Advocacy isn’t easy but together, it’s transformative. 💪

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