Helping Students Thrive: A Neurodiversity-Informed Approach to Learning Differences, Wellbeing, and Communication for Agents
🏷️ £55 – £110
🎧 Certified Agents
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Course outline:
In this dedicated training session for education agents, Hazel Lim shares her personal journey and offers tools to help agents build stronger relationships with schools and families, ensuring students are best placed in environments where they can flourish and thrive. Hazel’s personal journey connects neurodiversity with varying cultural understanding and approaches, supporting everyone in developing their understanding to promote the best chance of success for children in the British education system.
- Recognise social communication or behavioural differences that may appear in young students and learn how to approach these situations in a way that supports families while maintaining strong partnerships with schools.
- Discover how early recognition, and culturally sensitive communication when approaching families can help agents guide families toward suitable and supportive school environments.
Key topics:
- Shares real-life lived experiences
- Empowers agents with knowledge to better understand students’ needs, strengthening their knowledge and understanding of neurodivergence in specific cultural contexts
- Helps agents navigate cultural peace and expectations when building trust with families
- Equips agents to speak with increased accuracy and confidence when relaying information, in order to work more effectively with both schools and families
Learning outcomes:
- Learn strategies to best support students who may show subtle social, emotional, behavioural and/or learning differences
- Enable students to thrive through individual learning and wellbeing support
- Understand students’ unique needs to ensure the best possible school placements
- Recognise early signs of stress, anxiety, or adjustment challenges
- Communicate with and approach families with care and cultural sensitivity
- Strengthen trust and communication with and between schools, agents and families
*Certified agents can use one of their two free sessions per year for this event. Please email if you’d like to use this option*
This event will be held jointly with:
Speakers:
Hazel Lim, Founder and Director of Chinese Autism Community Interest Company est. 2022
Hazel Lim is a multi award-winning autism advocate challenging cultural stigma around autism within the UK Chinese community. After moving to Swansea in 2015 to complete a master’s degree in Autism and Related Conditions, she made Wales her permanent home and became a leading voice locally and internationally. Hazel founded the Chinese Autism Support Group in 2016 and produced the UK’s first English–Chinese bilingual autism booklet in 2019. Her work has been widely recognised, including a Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award. In 2022, she founded Chinese Autism CIC to empower and support Chinese families nationwide.
