Neurodiversity online parent/carer workshops

Registration is easy - simply click the link to visit Eventbrite, where you can reserve your spot. After registering, you’ll receive a Zoom invitation to join the workshop at the scheduled time. All registrants will also receive a recording of the workshop and a resource pack. If you're unable to attend or would like to revisit the content, you'll have free access to both the recording and resources.  

To book your free place onto live upcoming workshops, see the links below:

Childhood Neurodiversity: Understanding and Supporting Sensory Needs

What are the different sensory systems? What might sensory processing differences look like in children and teenagers? This workshop will answer these questions and explore how parents and carers can support a child’s sensory needs.

26th March 2025 at 13:00pm - Book here.

Childhood Neurodivergence: Supporting Planning, Organising and Remembering

This workshop will explore cognitive differences in neurodivergent children such as planning, organising and remembering things. The workshop will consider how these differences can impact on day-to-day life and give advice on how parents/carers can support their children and young people with cognitive differences.

Tuesday 29^th April 2025: 1:00pm - Book here

Childhood Neurodivergence: Supporting Your Child with Low Mood

For parents/carers of children aged 0-18 years. Everyone has days when they feel low, this is normal. Sometimes this low mood hangs around for longer and starts to make it difficult for our children and young people to do the things that are important to them. This workshop will support you to have a better understanding of why neurodivergent children may be vulnerable to low mood, the warning signs, and provide you with strategies to support your child/young person.

Wednesday 21^st May 2025: 1:00pm - Book here

Childhood Neurodivergence: Understanding and Supporting Eating Difficulties

This workshop is for parents/carers concerned about their neurodivergent child's limited diet (i.e. avoiding or restricting certain foods). We will explore why children/young people may struggle to eat, anxiety around eating and how parents/carers can support children and young people with these eating struggles. This workshop is not aimed at parents of children and young people whose eating difficulties relate to body image concerns.

Wednesday 25^th June 2025: 1:00pm - Book here

Childhood Neurodivergence: Managing Big Feelings including Anxiety and Low Mood

This workshop will explore why neurodivergent children and young people may develop differences with their emotions, including anxiety and low mood, and how parents/carers can support neurodivergent children and young people with managing their big feelings.

Tuesday 15^th July 2025: 1:00pm - Book here

Childhood Neurodivergence: Supporting Your Neurodivergent Teenager

For parents/carers of children aged 13+. From managing exam stress to peer pressures in friendship groups, being a teenager brings new experiences for young people. This workshop will explore differences for neurodivergent teenagers and ways to support your neurodivergent teen into early adulthood.

Monday 18^th August 2025: 1:00pm - Book here

Childhood Neurodiversity: What You Need to Know as a Parent/Carer

What is neurodiversity? What is autism, ADHD and learning disability? Does my child need a diagnosis to get support? This introductory workshop will answer these questions and introduce where parents/carers can find advice and guidance for supporting their neurodivergent children. The workshop will also outline what you can expect having referred your child for consideration for assessment by the Suffolk NSFT teams (including the screening and assessment process).

Watch here: Childhood Neurodiversity: What You Need to Know as a Parent/Carer
Childhood Neurodiversity - What You Need to Know as a Parent or Carer Slides
Childhood Neurodiversity - What You Need to Know as a parent or carer Resource Pack

Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting Social Relationships

This workshop discusses social relationship differences for neurodivergent children, and how parents/carers can support their children with understanding and managing social relationships. This workshop covers topics on friendship, family relationships and social relationships.

Watch here: Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting Social Relationships - YouTube
Childhood Neurodiversity Supporting Social Relationships Slides
Childhood Neurodiversity Social Relationships Resource Pack

Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting your Child’s Education

For parents/carers of school aged children.

Many parents/carers have reported the struggles their children are facing in education. This workshop will provide advice and guidance on how parents/carers can navigate some of the challenges they will likely be facing.

Watch here: Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting Your Child’s Education
Childhood Neurodiversity Supporting Your Child's Education Slides
Childhood Neurodiversity Supporting Your Child's Education Resources

Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting Your Child with Anxiety

A workshop which explores valuable strategies and tips to help your child with anxiety. This workshop will explore what anxiety is, how this may present in neurodivergent children and offer practical advice and strategies to support your child in this area.

Watch the recording here: Childhood Neurodiversity: Supporting your child with anxiety - YouTube
Childhood Neurodiversity - Supporting Your Child With Anxiety Slides
Childhood Neurodiversity Anxiety Resource Pack

Childhood neurodiversity: Understanding and supporting sleep difficulties

Sleep difficulties can have a huge impact on a child’s emotions, behaviour, learning and health. This workshop will explore sleep differences for neurodivergent children, and how parents/carers can support their children with sleep.

Watch here: Understanding and supporting sleep difficulties Youtube
Childhood neurodiversity: Understanding and supporting sleep difficulties slides
Childhood neurodiversity: Understanding and supporting sleep difficulties Resource Pack

Childhood Neurodiversity: Managing Parental/Carer Stress

Research suggests that parents/carers of neurodivergent children experience greater stress than parents/carers of neurotypical children. This workshop will explore additional stressors you may encounter as a parent/carer of a neurodivergent child, how to manage parental/carer stress and support your own wellbeing.

Watch here: Managing Parental/Carer Stress YouTube
Childhood neurodiversity: Managing Parental/Carer Slides
Childhood neurodiversity: Managing Parental/Carer Self-help guide

Pre-recorded workshops

To access a range of pre-recorded childhood neurodiversity workshops from our previous series, use the link below. Topics include supporting language and communication, planning organising and remembering, the impact of early life stress and more.

Parent workshops | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS