Chris Benson on ADHD in school

We are joined by Ben Cosh, who developed Sylva to help families navigate the broken system around children with additional needs. If our listeners want to try Sylva, they offer a 3 month free trial if you enter the code "ADHDUK90"Find Sylva here online: https://www.mysylva.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my.sylva/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580440341275LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mysylvaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@my.sylva.app

Jamie is joined by fellow ADHD UK Ambassadors Hadeeqa (pharmacist, neurodiversity educator and ADHD coach), Amy (recruitment branch manager specialising in SEND and SEMH settings) and children’s author Sarah.The conversation explores ADHD awareness and the challenges of late diagnosis, featuring personal stories from individuals who have navigated their ADHD journeys. The discussion highlights misconceptions about ADHD, the importance of understanding individual needs, and the impact of misdiagnosis on mental health. The conversation explores the complexities surrounding ADHD diagnosis, including concerns about overdiagnosis and the profound impact of receiving a diagnosis on individuals' lives. Participants share personal experiences, emphasizing the bittersweet nature of understanding one's neurodiversity and the importance of turning challenges into positive outcomes.TakeawaysLate diagnosis challengesMisconceptions about ADHD Understanding ADHD diagnosisImpact of diagnosis on lifeChapters00:00 Introduction to ADHD Awareness01:10 Personal Journeys to Diagnosis05:06 Understanding ADHD in Family Dynamics09:03 Misconceptions Surrounding ADHD11:13 Advocating for Individual Needs14:20 Recruitment Challenges in Neurodiversity16:43 Success Stories in Neurodiverse Settings20:07 The Impact of Misdiagnosis24:39 Navigating the Diagnostic Process26:28 Overdiagnosis of ADHD?29:05 Life After Diagnosis32:56 Bittersweet Realizations34:40 Turning Experiences into Positivity37:37 Sharing Projects and Initiatives

We are joined this week by Collette Easton, who used her years of experience on 'both sides of the desk' of HR conversations to do an amazing bit of citizen science.She is also a tech starter! check out Loops belowLinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/colletteeaston/ The research can be downloaded https://colletteeaston.com/researchInsta @loops.workThe app store https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/loops-adhd-goals-with-a-buddy/id6784126787Loops website www.loops.workYouTube @colletteEaston

We welcome our very own educational lead, Chris Benson.Chris is an ex-headteacher who writes extensively on ADHD in education, from his own experience as well as his professional expertise. He knows the patch, inside and out. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbenson-uk/ for more!!

We are joined by the tremendous Kelly Jarvis- ex-headteacher and head of consultancy at Sunshine Support, to discuss what her organisation calls school avoidance, and the rest of the system calls school refusal.After this conversation, I'm with Kelly! We also talk about the challenge of translating diagnosis to strategies, and what burn out is (and isn't)

a re-upload with better audio!Ash Ruddy, Chief Growth Officer for Neuly AI, discusses the AI companion app for parents of neurodivergent children.Ash describes everything that goes into the system, and the saefguards built in, before we talk about sustainability, agreeableness, accountability and evaluation.AI is a contentious topic, and we have tried to do it justice in this very specific application.If you want to try out neuly, there's a free trial at https://dev.neuly.ai/adhduk

We are joined by David Levy from https://adhdcounselling.uk/ to talk about the usefulness of counselling in people's ADHD journey, and the difficulty of fitting this into the medical narrative.We also talk about his brilliant mental health fanzine https://theframemagazine.co.uk/ which I strongly recommend

We are joined by Amelia Draper from Changing Futures Nottingham to talk about the complex relationship between ADHD and homelessness, and what we can do to support people in their journeys to prevent this outcome.See https://www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/projects/practice-development-unit/learning-series/neurodivergence for more!

All three of us for this one, as we take on the Channel 4 documentary "The great ADHD myth?"https://www.channel4.com/press/news/new-channel-4-documentary-great-adhd-myth-seeks-determine-whether-adhd-genuineIf you have been affected by the documentary there is support at ADHDUK, and we also have survey!https://adhduk.co.uk/challenging-c4-the-great-adhd-myth/reaction-survey/

We are delighted to be joined by two researchers from University College Dublin who have taken a systematic view of the data on adult ADHD diagnosis, a subject close to all our hearts!It's a wide-ranging chat with a great celebratory moment at the end!Their paper, for those who want to dig in, is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42216788/The rumpelstiltskin paper is also open access: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13150541/Science is great, isn't it?