We are joined this week by Collette Easton, who used her years of experience on 'both sides of the desk' of HR conversations to do an amazing bit of citizen science.

She is also a tech starter! check out Loops below

LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/colletteeaston/

The research can be downloaded https://colletteeaston.com/research

Insta @loops.work

The app store https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/loops-adhd-goals-with-a-buddy/id6784126787

Loops website www.loops.work

YouTube @colletteEaston

We welcome our very own educational lead, Chris Benson.

Chris is an ex-headteacher who writes extensively on ADHD in education, from his own experience as well as his professional expertise. He knows the patch, inside and out.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbenson-uk/ for more!!

We are joined by the tremendous Kelly Jarvis- ex-headteacher and head of consultancy at Sunshine Support, to discuss what her organisation calls school avoidance, and the rest of the system calls school refusal.

After this conversation, I'm with Kelly!

We also talk about the challenge of translating diagnosis to strategies, and what burn out is (and isn't)

a re-upload with better audio!

Ash Ruddy, Chief Growth Officer for Neuly AI, discusses the AI companion app for parents of neurodivergent children.

Ash describes everything that goes into the system, and the saefguards built in, before we talk about sustainability, agreeableness, accountability and evaluation.
AI is a contentious topic, and we have tried to do it justice in this very specific application.

If you want to try out neuly, there's a free trial at https://dev.neuly.ai/adhduk

We are joined by David Levy from https://adhdcounselling.uk/ to talk about the usefulness of counselling in people's ADHD journey, and the difficulty of fitting this into the medical narrative.

We also talk about his brilliant mental health fanzine https://theframemagazine.co.uk/ which I strongly recommend

We are joined by Amelia Draper from Changing Futures Nottingham to talk about the complex relationship between ADHD and homelessness, and what we can do to support people in their journeys to prevent this outcome.

See https://www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/projects/practice-development-unit/learning-series/neurodivergence for more!

We discuss the impact of race on teacher assessments of pupil behaviour with Abbey McClemont of Buffalo University.

Her paper is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/2372966X.2023.2236539

A gentle and intriguing chat with Josh Muggleton, author, psychologist and autistic person, in which we finally get round to discussing his book, Developing Differently, which you can find here: https://uk.jkp.com/products/developing-differently?_pos=2&_sid=6afba3c13&_ss=r