Educator Resources

Supporting School Districts

There are organizations that can support inclusion classrooms without embedding behavior interventions for all students. Examples of good alternatives that are neurodiversity affirming are:

• The Program of Inclusion and Neurodiversity Education (PINE)

• The Therapist Neurodiversity Collective (TNC)

• Autistics Unmasked (AU)

Supporting Autistic Educators

• Autistic School Staff Project Recommendations for Supporting Autistic Teachers.

• A Guide To Understanding, Developing, And Applying Reasonable Accommodations For Autistic People (accessible-guide).

Supporting Neurodiverse Students

In addition to the organizations listed above additional professional development opportunities include:

• Smooth Sailing Program Professional Development Program.

• Neuro-Affirmative Social Skills from Ausome Training.

• Goal Writing For Autistic Students from Learn Play Thrive.

• Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS) model from Lives in the Balance.

• Why Toolkit from Supportable Solutions.

• “Nest Approach,” guidance on supporting autistic meltdowns, developed by autistic adults in partnership with autistic young people (Smith et al, 2024; Autistic adults, et al, 2024).

Resources for Librarians

• “A commentary on children's books about autism: What messages do they send about neurodiversity?” (Venker, et al, 2023).

• Autism-Ready Libraries Toolkit! (supporting inclusive early literacy programs).

Neurodiversity Resources

• Autistic Self-Advocacy and the Neurodiversity Movement: Implications for Autism Early Intervention Research and Practice. (Leadbitter, et al, 2021)

• The Development and Pilot-Testing of the Autism Attitude Acceptance Scale: An Instrument Measuring Autism Acceptance. Autism in Adulthood, 2(3), 204–215. (Kim, 2020)

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