Businesses & Communities
Whether you’re looking to create sensory-friendly programming for your nonprofit or benefit from neurodivergent employees’ insights at your small business, I can help you find your footing. Together, we’ll build a plan for improved accessibility, equity, and inclusion, so you can foster lasting, mutually beneficial relationships.
How can I help?
- Community Program Development: Whether it’s an autistic arts workshop at a community centre, a sensory backpack program for a museum, or an ADHD-friendly meditation program for a hospital, I can advise you on values to embrace and pitfalls to avoid!
- Accessibility audits: Identify what’s preventing autistic and ADHD clients from choosing/benefiting from your services or applying to/succeeding at your jobs. Which communications, processes, and environmental features need to be adapted?
- Accommodations (that actually work): Here’s the thing: decades of institutionalized discrimination mean your clients, students, or employees may not even be able to get a diagnosis—much less a doctor’s note that’s useful. Learn how you can help them spend a lot less time fighting with medical bureaucracy and a lot more time being a happy, healthy member of your community.
- Harnessing the benefits of neurodiversity: When properly supported, autistic minds can identify abnormalities and inefficiencies lickety split, and ADHDers are idea machines. What can you do to facilitate their best work? (Hint: it’s all about flexibility!)
- Sensitivity readings and communications analysis: Why is your message to neurodivergent people falling flat? Learn about the politics and power surrounding the language we use. Make your message match your meaning!
Let’s discuss, brainstorm, and collaborate closely!
In the interest of building genuine working relationships, maximizing learning retention, and meeting your team’s access needs as well as my own, the majority of my consultation work is currently done in 1-on-1 or small group discussions (complete with permanent access to written resources!) rather than as one-off presentations for large groups.
This low-pressure collaboration gives you and your team the opportunity to feel more comfortable, ask those burning questions, and receive hands-on support!