Friendship and Neurodivergent Children
About this episode
In this tenth episode Dr Caron Carter talks to Dr Luke Beardon about Friendship and Neurodivergent children. Terms and concepts such as neurodivergent and neurodivergence, equality and equity, reasonable adjustments and diverging sociality are discussed. In summary, this episode explores what friendship means to neurodivergent children and how we might listen and support.
Guest speaker
Luke is the Course Leader for the Post Graduate Certificate in Autism at Sheffield Hallam University, and supervisor of several Doctoral students, a co-editor of five books on autism and sole author of an additional seven books (eighth in press) with several other publications in journals and books.
He has spoken at numerous National and International conferences on a variety of autism related topics and has addressed parliament in Westminster and the United Nations in New York. With multiple awards and media appearances Luke is passionate about all things related to autism.