Welcome
Who belongs here
Helen’s Way is for anyone with any sort of experience — whether you’re a neurodivergent learner yourself, someone supporting a neurodivergent learner, or someone supporting the people who do:
- Parents, carers, family & friends
- Neurodivergent learners & adults
- Educators & learning support
- Therapists & specialists
- Researchers
- Advocacy groups & organisations
Read more about who belongs here
We are an ecosystem, and we’re interested in everybody’s insights — either as a neurodivergent learner yourself (see what we mean below), supporting a neurodivergent learner, or supporting those who support them. Parents and caregivers, their families and friends, educators, teachers, learning support teams, Medical & Allied Health professionals, specialist consulting services, researchers, advocacy groups and community organisations all belong here.
What we mean by “neurodivergent learner”
By neurodivergent learner we mean any student — across early childhood, school, university, TAFE or another learning pathway — who is considered neurodivergent, whether formally diagnosed or not: for example, autistic students, or those who have ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, auditory processing disorder or other sensory processing differences, developmental language disorder, Tourette’s or other tic disorders, or who are twice-exceptional (gifted and neurodivergent), among others. Neurodiversity is the idea that these differences are a natural, valuable part of being human — not deficits to fix. You belong here whether you’re formally diagnosed, waiting for assessment, or self-identified.
Our focus is on experience within mainstream education providers. We really want to hear from learners whose mainstream experience led them to leave it, for home schooling, distance education or other settings, as well as all those connected with supporting these students and their families.
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Helen’s Way isn’t here to blame individuals or individual providers. We see that education systems are overstretched, and that so many dedicated teachers and learning support teams are doing their very best. We’re with you — we want you better supported, so you feel equipped to support neurodivergent learners the way you want to.
Please join us, and we can raise our voices together.