ADHD, AuDHD and PDA in Education and Therapy – Free Live Training with Laura Kerbey
ADHD, AuDHD and PDA in Education and Therapy: Simple Interventions to Transform Learning and Engagement Across the Lifespan explores practical, neuro-affirming ways to support learners who may feel overwhelmed, burned out, or pushed into crisis by typical educational environments.
Neurodivergent children and young people can face barriers that are easy to miss when the learning environment does not match their needs. Those experiences can affect engagement, wellbeing, family life, and the support they later need in therapy.
In this free online workshop, neurodiversity educator, specialist and author Laura Kerbey shares simple, sustainable, often cost-free approaches for recognising those barriers and making realistic adaptations. The focus is on relationship-centred learning, autonomy, and practical support for ADHD, AuDHD and PDA.
Educators, therapists, mental health professionals, caregivers, coaches, and others who work with learners will gain strategies they can consider across educational and therapeutic settings.
Why Attend “ADHD, AuDHD and PDA in Education and Therapy”
When neurodivergent learners struggle in standard educational environments, the difficulty may be rooted in a mismatch between the learner and the setting rather than a lack of ability or effort.
This workshop helps you notice barriers that can be subtle, including burnout, masking, sensory challenges, anxiety, rejection sensitivity, demand avoidance, and shame in the context of education.
Laura Kerbey brings an education and neurodiversity perspective to practical adaptations that place relationship at the heart of learning. You’ll explore ways to support autonomy, strengthen engagement, and work more affirmingly with learners and their families.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is intended for educators, mental health professionals, and people who work in or in collaboration with educational settings. It also speaks to caregivers and coaches supporting neurodivergent children and young people.
The material is relevant across education and therapy, including work with learners who are currently in education and those recovering from negative educational experiences.
- Teachers, lecturers, teaching assistants, and educational support staff
- Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCOs)
- Psychotherapists, counsellors, and IAPT practitioners
- Psychologists and psychiatrists
- Social workers, nurses, and other mental health professionals
- Coaches and caregivers supporting neurodivergent learners
- Professionals collaborating with schools, colleges, universities, and families
- People supporting ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, and other neurodivergent learners
What You’ll Learn
You’ll examine how standard education can create barriers for neurodivergent learners and how those barriers may show up through burnout, masking, sensory challenges, anxiety, rejection sensitivity, demand avoidance, and shame.
Laura will also clarify distinctions among ADHD, AuDHD, and PDA, while sharing targeted ways to think about support in educational and therapeutic contexts.
The workshop emphasises practical changes in language, intention, environment, and relationship so that support can be more realistic, sustainable, and responsive to individual needs.
- How standard educational environments can create barriers for neurodivergent learners
- How to recognise signs of burnout, masking, sensory challenges, anxiety, and related distress
- How rejection sensitivity, demand avoidance, and shame can appear in educational contexts
- How ADHD, AuDHD, and PDA differ, including AuDHD as co-occurring autism and ADHD
- Ways to adjust phrasing and intention to better support autonomy
- Practical, sustainable, neuro-affirming strategies that keep relationship at the heart of learning
- Approaches that can support learners, families, and the wider systems around them
- Ways educators and therapists can make realistic adaptations without relying on costly changes
Event Schedule
The program combines specialist-led teaching with practical guidance for working with neurodivergent learners and the people who support them.
The workshop closes with a dedicated question-and-answer segment focused on participant questions.
Downloadable PDF resources are also included to support the learning shared in the workshop.
Workshop Structure
- Specialist-Led WorkshopNeuro-affirming education and therapy strategies with Laura Kerbey
- Question & Answer SessionAn opportunity to bring questions connected with the workshop themes
Core Focus
- Understanding BarriersADHD, AuDHD, PDA, masking, burnout, sensory needs, anxiety, and demand avoidance
- Supporting EngagementLanguage, autonomy, relationship, and realistic adaptations across learning environments
About Laura Kerbey
Laura Kerbey is a UK-based neurodiversity and education specialist, consultant, and author with extensive experience working with autistic children and young people.
She founded Positive Autism Support and Training (PAST), which supports families with autistic children and associated conditions, and co-launched KITE Therapeutic Learning Services, which provides bespoke therapeutic learning programmes for children unable to access school because of high anxiety or other needs.
Laura also works as an educational consultant with schools, colleges, and universities, providing training and advice designed to help meet the needs of autistic and PDA learners. She has developed autism and PDA training programmes accredited by The Open College Network (London Region) and recognised by the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF).
Her books include The Educator’s Experience of PDA, The Teen’s Guide to PDA, The Simple Guide to PDA for Kids, and The Simple Guide to PDA for Parents and Professionals.
Free Gifts for Attendees
Downloadable PDF Resources
- Downloadable PDF resources are included with the workshop
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Join Laura Kerbey for practical guidance on ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, educational barriers, autonomy, and neuro-affirming support across education and therapy.
- Nov 03 2026
- Expired!
- 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Nov 03 2026
- Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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