CPDSO Webinar: Neurodivergent-Affirming, and Neurodivergent-Accessible, Training

Knowing where to start with making training content and resources accessible for neurodivergent learners can be challenging. In this webinar, Catherine Leggett will present practical steps that all training designers and those delivering sessions can take to better ensure that neurodivergent participants are able to fully take part and learn.

At the end of this session, you will have defined strategies that you can consider for implementation, right through from designing the content, preparing participants for the session, structuring participation during the session, providing support, and also with training follow-up.

Catherine has a background in engineering and self-recognised as autistic in 2002. They began their autism career in 2014 with The National Autistic Society, delivering employability courses and providing 1:1 workplace support for autistic employees before specialising in working with employers and delivering quality employment consultancy and training. Catherine was diagnosed as autistic in 2015, and since 2021 has also been designing and delivering training and resources for parents and carers, healthcare and mental health professionals and NHS Mental Health Trusts, Careers Professionals and the Autism Education Trust.

Catherine regularly reaches out to the autistic community for their voice in Catherine’s work, balancing evidence-based, best-practice approaches and their own lived experience of being autistic, as an autism professional, and the parent to an adult autistic person.