PARENT TALK - What Can I Ask The School For? Accessing Accommodations for Your Child with ADHD

We hear the term "additional support needs" used about our child, but many parents of children with ADHD and other neurodivergent conditions have little experience or knowledge of what "additional support" our child needs and what we can reasonably ask the school for.

Advocating for your child at school can be a daunting, stressful, and confusing experience for parents.  This session focuses on:

• building positive working relationships with teachers and school staff for the benefit of your child
• navigating conversations about assessments and referrals
• understanding some of the accommodations that schools can realistically offer within current resources
• translating your child's struggles into needs and needs into support
• working with schools and your child on difficult behaviour
• advocating for your child through strained relationships
• additional resources outside of school for you and your child
• dealing with the school when your child refuses to attend*
• when things breakdown - deciding to complain or to walk away

This session will be delivered by Jill Dykes and Livvi Brooks. 

Jill is founder and CEO of ADHD Scotland and an ADHD mum to 2 AuDHD teenagers. She's got many battle scars from advocating for her kids over the years but has been able to achieve really positive relationships and outcomes for her kids through most of that journey.

Livvi is an AuDHD secondary school Additional Support Needs specialist teacher, working largely with neurodivergent children within Stirling Council.  Livvi has great insights into how best children with additional support needs can be accommodated along with a pragmatic understanding of what is realistic within resource-strapped schools.