Price: $195 USD
Learn at your own pace with recordings of our live sessions
Price: $195
Facilitator: Naureen Hunani, RD
Recording: Recording available for 90 days after registration
Duration: 2x2-hour training sessions (4 CPEUs in total)
Dietitians & Nutritionists
Mental health professionals
Healthcare providers
Anyone working with adult neurodivergent clients experiencing feeding & eating challenges
If so, you're likely seeing a growing number of neurodivergent clients in your practice. With the increasing accessibility of diagnoses, more individuals are being identified as neurodivergent, including autistic and ADHD individuals.
Even though eating challenges are common in neurodivergent people, many of us did not receive adequate education and training needed to offer neurodivergent-affirming care. Understanding how neurodivergence impacts our clients' abilities to nourish themselves adequately is essential to providing affirming care.
Supporting neurodivergent individuals requires a specialized skill set. It requires unlearning many ableist beliefs around neuronormative ideals around eating and how to exist in a body. While you might feel confident offering weight-inclusive care to clients who identify as neurotypical, you might be questioning your approach and modalities used in anti-diet spaces and wondering if and how they apply to neurodivergent people, especially folks with decreased interoceptive awareness, people with feeding and sensory differences and folks with executive functioning differences.
Investment: $195 USD
This course is designed to equip you with practical tools to confidently support your neurodivergent clients.
Here's what you can expect:
Interactive Learning: Engage in discussions and activities that solidify your understanding.
Enhanced communication and rapport with your clients: From the intake process to therapy sessions, we will discuss solutions to facilitate communication between provider/client, build strong therapeutic relationships and make your services more accessible to neurodivergent clients.
Gain neuro-affirming tools: Gain insights into creating a more inclusive and accessible practice by adapting to the needs of clients with executive functioning and sensory differences and working with the clients' neurodivergent traits to avoid triggering shame, masking and guilt. Learn how to support clients in their current bodies even when interoceptive differences are present.
Facilitator: Naureen Hunani, RD
Topics Covered:
Understand the fundamental principles of offering care to neurodivergent clients. We will explore how to support clients in finding the most accessible ways to nourish their bodies while respecting their unique brain differences and moving away from offering neuronormative recommendations that do not align with their capabilities and abilities, which can create a disconnect between client and provider.
Learn strategies for providing weight-inclusive care that respects and affirms neurodivergent experiences. Concepts such as body neutrality, food neutrality, emotional eating, and stimming with food will be explored, focusing on how they can and cannot be applied to neuro-affirming care. We will focus on research and lived experience in order to build more affirming practices.
Gain insights into how traditional weight-centric models can be harmful to neurodivergent clients and how certain weight-inclusive practices fail to capture the eating experiences of neurodivergent clients. The material covered will help you shift towards a more compassionate and personalized approach that honours the client's dignity and autonomy.
Facilitator: Naureen Hunani, RD
Topics Covered:
Learn about practical accommodations to make eating environments more accessible and supportive for neurodivergent clients. We will also discuss tools to make meal planning and grocery shopping more accessible. Additionally, we will explore the use of technology to help clients nourish themselves with more ease and be more consistent with their eating.
Explore sensory and executive functioning differences and other unique needs that impact eating in neurodivergent individuals. You will gain tools to help raise awareness of your clients' eating experiences, which will support clients in better advocating for their needs and implementing accommodations.
Develop skills to implement changes that foster a sense of autonomy and empowerment in your clients' eating practices so they can develop a more positive relationship with food and their bodyminds.
Investment: $195 USD
Naureen Hunani is a multiply neurodivergent dietitian with over 18 years of clinical experience and the founder of RDs for Neurodiversity. She has a private practice in Montreal, Canada where she supports neurodivergent people of all ages struggling with feeding and eating challenges, including ARFID. Naureen has a particular interest in the intersection of neurodivergence and feeding differences. She is a supporter of early diagnosis of feeding differences and advocates for inclusion and acceptance. She has had the privilege to share her knowledge and expertise at national and international conferences.
In November 2023, she received the Nothing About Us Without Us Award from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Naureen is passionate about supporting pro-justice, HAES®-aligned professionals striving to build liberatory practices.
To learn more about RDs for Neurodiversity, click here
As with most educational organizations, we don't offer refunds for courses.
Any professional working with neurodivergent folks experiencing feeding and eating challenges can benefit from attending this course.
Whether you are a recent graduate or have been practicing for several years, you would benefit from this course.
You will have 90-day access to review and integrate the material.
Investment: $195 USD