Valuing Neurodiversity in Healthcare Education and Training

This episode is just under 30 mins long and Rini is in conversation with Dr Ashley Liew, a Consultant Paediatric Neuro Psychiatrist at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.  He has clinical and academic interests, as well as national leadership roles, in the mental health of children with neurodevelopmental conditions (Learning Disabilities, Autism, ADHD) and/or neurological conditions (epilepsy, neuroinflammatory conditions).  As a medical educator and trainer, he is particularly interested in how we support and value neurodiversity.

We discuss the social model of disability, the difference between neurodiverse traits and neurodivergence as a host of conditions, how it might present, whether a diagnosis is always helpful and how you can support learners and colleagues and a framework you might find helpful from Mary Doherty and colleagues for autistic people in healthcare settings. 

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