Autism Dialogica

02/05/2025

And why Kennedy, the medical model, and mainstream autism discourse are completely missing the point.

02/05/2025

“The principles of Autism Dialogue are eloquently explained in this innovative book. It provides the reader with insights into a strengths-based approach that can empower.
The author invites us to consider the richness of lived experiences via self and mutual understanding. This approach has great potential to reduce harmful societal misunderstandings of autism.
The Autism Dialogue Approach needs to be embraced.”
I remember at a public, local council-led meeting in 2019 when I first heard the idea we should celebrate Autism - it was Megan Freeth.
Thank you for your kind words again, Megan. Professor of Neurodevelopmental Psychology, Sheffield Autism Research Lab, University of Sheffield, UK.
Order the book now
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity/dp/1032668075

18/04/2025

Just over a week to go to worldwide release of the book and I want to share this wonderful feedback in an email. "I hope your book serves beings well, Jonny. It’s a rich area of inquiry and one of such tender need." -
(Gregory Kramer, personal correspondence, 2025)

I was excited to inform the Insight Dialogue Community people that my book, 'The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook is published, as I am hugely inspired by their approach to 'relational dharma' and have practiced various forms of sitting in presence with another. This aims to overcome what has been called the 'double empathy problem' between people of different neurotypes (particularly autistic and non-autistic). Chapter 13 outlines this and includes a description and table showing similarities between Insight Dialogue and the Autism Dialogue Approach. I really believe the two approaches overlap at the deepest levels and could be developed together for helping people who seriously struggle socially. Thank you Gregory Kramer and everyone at the Insight Dialogue Community
- Jonathan Drury
Book info: https://dialogica.uk/the-autism-dialogue-transforming-communication-in-neurodiversity/

03/04/2025

Autism Dialogue BOOK LAUNCH May 6th! Onlinevents CPD
Join us at the online book launch on May 6th where Jonny Drury will give a talk about the origins and inner workings of The Autism Dialogue Approach and be interviewed by Kate Salinsky who also wrote the foreword. Q&A session. Attendees get a 20% discount code.

Click here for tickets - price by donation.
https://onlinevents.co.uk/event/book-launch-the-autism-dialogue-handbook-on-routledge-jonny-drury/

Available globally on e-book, paperback and hardback, the The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook: Transforming Communication in Neurodiversity on Routledge, release date April 28th. Free inspection copies now on request (universities and journalists).

Pre-order on Amazon now! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity/dp/1032668075

Blackwell's Bookshop UK
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-by-Jonathan-Drury/9781032668079

Amazon Ireland
https://www.amazon.ie/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity/dp/1032668075/
Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity-ebook/dp/B0DLWV97P1
Amazon Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity/dp/1032668075/
Amazon Australia
https://www.amazon.com.au/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity-ebook/dp/B0DLWV97P1
Amazon Saudi Arabia
https://www.amazon.sa/Jonathan-Drury/dp/1032668075
Psychological Therapy Books UK
https://www.psychologicaltherapybooks.co.uk/product/the-autism-dialogue-approach-handbook-transforming-communication-in-neurodiversity
Routledge
https://www.routledge.com/The-Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Transforming-Communication-in-Neurodiversity/Drury/p/book/9781032668079
Germany
https://www.beck-shop.de/drury-autism-dialogue-approach-handbook/product/38228313

02/04/2025

BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION ALERT!

Hi, you're the first to publicly hear about our book launches coming up! Tickets are limited and we're letting people know slowly so it gives you time to get in there.

We've one in Sheffield and an online one as well!

SHEFFIELD. MAY 1st 7-9pm
The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook; Transforming Communication in Neurodiversity (Routledge, April 2025)
Please join us at a launch in Sheffield - there'll be some old faces there!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-dialogue-book-launch-event-tickets-1300509953279

If you can't make that, please come to the online one instead:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-autism-dialogue-approach-handbook-routledge-jonny-drury-tickets-1292498932099

Hope you enjoy the book! It's now available to pre-order on Amazon in every country!!
UK HERE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Dialogue-Approach-Handbook-Neurodiversity-ebook/dp/B0DLWV97P1
Feel free to comment below - it would be nice to hear from you.
Cheers!

26/03/2025

The Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook;
Transforming Communication in Neurodiversity
Pre-order now!
https://a.co/d/hq2NpVa

This pioneering new book by British author Jonathan Drury offers practical tools, reflective exercises, and grounded examples to help care professionals, educators and researchers centre lived experience and create neurodivergent-affirming spaces. It is designed for those committed to compassionate and inclusive practice, and by opening whole new areas of radical Dialogue, equips readers with insight and skills to build deep connection, support wellbeing, and drive meaningful social change.

'The Autism Dialogue provides an insightful perspective…'
Temple Grandin, author of Visual Thinking and Thinking in Pictures, USA

'a vital contribution to researchers and practitioners across many fields.' - Lori Hogenkamp, Center for Adaptive Stress, USA

'...emancipates "Autism" from the shackles of conventional labelling...deeply considered ideas to help us fully embrace our own uniqueness and that of others.' - Vincent Traynor, Associate Professor of Change Leadership, Sheffield Business School

'... a perspective that takes seriously the notion that practical knowledge about human experience is the royal road – and the active principle – for understanding how our minds are not isolated but work together to bring forth meaningful worlds.'

Amy Cohen Varela, Clinical Psychologist, Chair of Mind & Life Europe, Switzerland

We offer easy, convenient returns with at least one free return option: no shipping charges. All returns must comply with our returns policy.

21/03/2025

🌍 Building Bridges Through Dialogue with the Autism Dialogue Approach

Communication can be a challenge both ways for Autistics and non-Autistics. What if the key to better understanding wasn’t about changing us as people, but changing how we listen and engage?

The Autism Dialogue Approach (ADA) is a groundbreaking method that fosters mutual respect and deeper connections between autistic and non-autistic people. It can be applied at all ages, in formal groups, pairs and even in personal life.

Rooted in sound theory, dialogic frameworks and professional support and care practice, ADA creates safe opportunities and spaces where diverse perspectives can be explored without judgment, allowing users to share their experiences, express themselves freely, and co-create meaning together.

Autism isn’t in need of repair. By shifting the focus from “fixing” differences to understanding and valuing them, Autism Dialogue is already transforming workplaces, healthcare, education and support systems.

Learn more about how this innovative approach is changing lives at https://dialogica.uk

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12/03/2025

Therapists, coaches, healthcare practitioners... Are you coming to the exciting launch of our Community of Practice tomorrow? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-of-practice-launch-for-autism-dialogue-approach-tickets-1244528170259

10/03/2025

⭐️This Thursday 1-3pm⭐️ If you've previously attended our workshops or trainings, this is for you! Meet with us online at the first session of this brand new Community of Practice, where we can grow, learn together and make Autistic lives better through dialogue.

Communities of practice are formed to promote social learning. Our community of practice will support training attendees to engage regularly with each other in a process of collective learning, in order to develop and improve understanding, through discussion, investigation, analysis and evaluation.

We believe that thinking together, combining participants’ individual experience and knowledge, reflecting on core issues, and working with a clear vision towards our joint goals, will ultimately produce positive results benefitting not only the community of practice, but also those it serves.

“Communities of Practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.”

Inclusively priced to open learning for all colleagues: The guide price for this event is £20.00, however, we appreciate that income varies greatly in different locations and circumstances. Please contribute what you can to help us maintain inclusive professional training.

Book your place:

Community of Practice Launch for New Practitioners of Autism Dialogue Approach (ADA) Workshop with Jonny Drury and Kate Salinsky