Neuroaffirming practice
For allied health professionals. What neuroaffirming practice means past the training, and how to hold it in a real caseload.
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For allied health professionals. What neuroaffirming practice means past the training, and how to hold it in a real caseload.
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Music therapy for neurodivergent children isn't about learning to play an instrument. Registered Music Therapist Brianna Dahlstrom explains what genuinely neuroaffirming music therapy looks like: maximising strengths rather than normalising differences, creating safety before pursuing outcomes, and offering a nourishing pathway to nervous system regulation that many neurodivergent people find more accessible than talk-based approaches. Discover how to identify affirming practitioners and why playfulness is essential therapeutic work.
21 August 2026
Speech pathologist and AI educator Shae Rodgers discusses how AI can reduce the invisible admin load that consumes 30-50% of clinicians' working week, freeing capacity for human connection. The article covers AI literacy foundations, ethical use in allied health, how AI is transforming AAC for neurodivergent communicators, and what questions families should ask when AI enters their child's care. The core message: technology works best when it supports the background, leaving clinicians fully present for the human parts of care that cannot be automated.
13 August 2026
Psychologist Adelle Sushames shares what truly neuroaffirming support means beyond training certificates and theoretical frameworks. This episode explores how to shift from deficit-based to strength-based approaches, understand autism as a dynamic spectrum wheel rather than a linear line, recognise who gets missed in diagnosis (particularly girls and women), and use practical communication tools like card decks to help neurodivergent people understand and express their needs.
19 March 2026
With Brianna Dahlstrom
With Shae Rodgers
With Adelle Sushames
With Caitlin Hughes
With Sarah Hayden