Neurodiversity Affirming Approaches to Supporting Autistic Children with Adina Levy

Ready to start taking some neurodiversity-affirming approaches in your therapy sessions so that you can better support your autistic students? 

In this episode of SLP Coffee Talk, I sat down with Adina Levy to talk about ways that we as SLPs can learn to fix the environment around our autistic students so that they can be successful and other neurodiversity-affirming strategies for therapy. 

Adina is an Autistic DHDer, speech therapist, and professional educator who runs Play. Learn. Chat. and her podcast - Exploring Neurodiversity.

Topics covered in this episode include:

• When Adina realized she needed to change the things she was doing to support her students
• How to deal when parents or teachers aren’t aligned with neurodiversity-affirming approaches 
• Neurodiversity-affirming practices when it comes to assessments
• Tips for writing goals for your neurodivergent students
• Three aspects of changing the world around the child
• Examples of goals and activities for autistic children

Adina has so many great tips and ideas to share so make sure to tune in! 

Full show notes available at www.speechtimefun.com/181

Resources Mentioned: 

Visit Adina’s website: https://playlearnchat.com/

Affirming Communication for Autistic Children Course: https://playlearnchat.com/speechie-course/

Get her free checklist Neurodiversity Affirming Speech Therapy Practices for SLPs supporting Autistic Children: https://playlearnchat.ck.page/76b2db1d09

Follow Adina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/play.learn.chat

Follow Adina on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/play.learn.chat

Follow Adina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adina-levy/

Follow Adina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Adina__Levy

Where We Can Connect: 

Follow the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slp-coffee-talk/id1497341007

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