Join us for our next webinar in our Driving School Success series. These webinars will provide accessible, high-quality CPD focused on effective operations and strategic decision-making to help schools and trusts thrive.

School environments (both primary and secondary) are busy, multisensory and unpredictable. Whether it is the hustle and bustle of lots of students in and outside of class, the walls of classrooms and corridors adorned with information displays or colourful artwork, or the smells from the canteen, toilets or changing rooms – there is so much going on at school that learners have to be able to cope with in order to be able to engage and learn. This presents unique challenges for autistic and neurodivergent learners, because this broad group of children and young people tend to have difficulties with attention, sensory arousal, and anxiety. Through our research, we argue that these three related difficulties, which we refer to as ‘Triple-A’, underpin many of the challenges that autistic and neurodivergent learners experience at school.

In this webinar, Mary and Debbie will give an overview of their research on these issues and how they have gone about translating this evidence to impact–mainly via their Triple-A online training for educators.

Triple-A is a co-produced training package (with non-academic and academic stakeholders, including autistic people) which provides evidence-based psychoeducation as well as a suite of practical support strategies. Since launching in 2022, Triple-A has reached over 9000 users, mostly in the UK (but also worldwide). The evidence of impact from Triple-A is positive in terms of changing understanding and practice of support, and it shows how this method of translating research to practice offers huge value in terms of promoting neuro-inclusive education.