After receiving a diagnosis of ADHD for both herself and her daughter, Rebecca Casserly developed a training course to help colleagues understand the bigger picture for neurodivergent children and adults.
‘It was heartfelt, because it came from the perspective of having the condition myself and also seeing it as a parent,’ says Casserly, who is operations director at Nurtured Childcare, a nursery group of seven settings across the Midlands and Yorkshire.
The two sessions of ‘Seeing Beyond the Behaviour’ focus on the iceberg behaviour model, which suggests that visible behaviours, at the tip of the iceberg, are informed by underlying emotions and outside factors – the majority of the iceberg beneath the surface.
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