Empowering professionals to understand FASD, ADHD and autism and support families in managing emotions and relationships.
We bring over a decade of experience in training professionals across the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors.
Our innovative, inclusive and dynamic programmes feature interactive participation, engaging graphics, and our unique SPARCS approach for brain-based caregiving, that can be applied in practice.
What people are saying:
“This was the best training I've been on in a long time. Truly life changing for my practice and the way I think about supporting children and families. Thank you so so much."
"Fantastic course! We've learnt so much and this has given us the confidence to push forward towards a diagnosis. How you deliver it is just perfect."
“This is the most useful, validating course that I’ve ever done. It’s been amazing.”
Training for Social CarePractitioners, Adoption Agencies, Foster Agencies and Foster Carers
Therapeutic Caregiving for Neurodiversity and FASD
Are you supporting children and families who are struggling with regulation and relationships?
Are therapeutic parenting approaches for trauma and attachment not always proving effective?
Neurodivergent conditions ADHD, autism and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) often lie behind the additional needs and challenging behaviours we see in care experienced children.
An understanding of neurodiversity and therapeutic caregiving skills and strategies that can be applied in practice will ensure effective support and interventions to the most vulnerable children and families and has the potential to prevent the ending of placements.
Understanding of neurodiversity and FASD and the Neurowise adapted approach to therapeutic caregiving.
The relationships between FASD, autism, ADHD and trauma.
Understanding and tools for spiky profile and dysmaturity.
The Neurowise ACT and SPARCS therapeutic approach to meeting supporter’s needs first.
Applying the unique SPARCS therapeutic approach for FASD within your own practice
This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standards on FASD:
Training for Children’s Residential Care
Therapeutic Caregiving for Neurodiversity and FASD
Are you facing challenging behaviours that don’t respond to your usual strategies—such as aggression, risk-taking, false allegations, or difficulties with understanding consequences?
Therapeutic caregiving techniques like PACE need adapting for neurodiversity and FASD.
Neurowise Training offers a brain-first approach to help you make sense of these challenges. We provide practical tools and strategies to support the children in your care—while also addressing your own well-being through our unique parallel track approach.
We equip you with a toolkit of skills to meet needs, manage emotions, and strengthen relationships—for both staff and children. This includes tools for:
Spiky profile and dysmaturity
Sensory interventions
Emotion regulation and threat reduction
Understanding and reducing defensive behaviours and increasing safety in relationships
Executive functioning differences and strategies for demand avoidance, blocked goals and confabulation
Communication tools tailored for processing, memory and learning differences.
Understanding and Skills in Neurodiversity: Autism, ADHD and FASD
Who is this training for?
Social care
Education
Adoption agencies
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Charities
Business
Residential care workers
What we will cover
· Key features and diagnostic criteria of common neurodivergent conditions: Autism, ADHD and FASD.
· How neurodivergence can intersect with trauma and attachment needs.
· Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in neurodivergent conditions.
· Executive functioning differences in neurodivergent conditions.
· Case studies of anonymised neurodivergent clients.
· A toolbox for supporting neurodivergent clients to compliment existing provision:
How the training is delivered
This training is available for up to 20 participants and can be offered as a full-day course, or a condensed half day course to meet your needs. You can choose to attend online or in-person.
FASD Essentials
This is our workshop covering all the essentials of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and an overview of key management strategies. This training will help you to achieve compliance with the following NICE Quality Standard on FASD:
Service providers have training programmes for healthcare professionals on managing FASD.
Who is this training for?
Anyone working with families or who is interested in FASD
What we will cover
What is FASD? Causal factors, ten brain domains and UK prevalence.
Co-occuring conditions including ADHD and autism and attachment difficulties.
Facial features and diagnosis.
Why is FASD so hidden? Spiky profile, IQ versus executive functioning, dysmaturity.
Sensory and emotion processing and regulation differences in FASD.
Overview of key strategies for managing emotions and behavioural symptoms.
How the training is delivered
This can be delivered as a 2-hour bite sized workshop, a half day or full day and is available for up to 20 participants. You can choose to attend online or in-person.
What people are saying
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“This was the best training I've been on in a long time. Truly life changing for my practice and the way I think about supporting children and families. Thank you so so much."
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“The training was wonderful, really engaging, extremely interesting, with great content and it motivated me to learn more"
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"Fantastic course! We've learnt so much and this has given us the confidence to push forward towards a diagnosis. How you deliver it is just perfect."
