Integrating a Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach Within Your Counseling Practice

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Description:

This webinar provides school psychologists with a framework for integrating neurodiversity-affirming practices into counseling within school-based settings. The session reviews foundational concepts, builds a shared language, and encourages school psychologists to reexamine traditional practices through a neurodiversity-affirming lens. Attendees will learn how to apply key concepts such as the double empathy problem, communication differences, and sensory and regulation needs to better understand student behavior and engagement. Practical strategies are introduced to help school psychologists shift their thinking, language, and intervention approaches to better support diverse learners. Participants will leave with a clearer framework for providing counseling services that strengthen student identity, autonomy, and growth in school.

Released in April 2026, this individual webinar can be purchased for $50 (scroll down to purchase). The content in this webinar is intertwined with Domains 4, 6, and 8 of the NASP Practice Model. Attendees who complete this 2-hour webinar will receive 2.0 NASP-Approved CPD credit.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the foundations of neurodiversity-affirming counseling.

2. Examine traditional practices through a neurodiversity-affirming lens.

 

3. Learn ways to adapt counseling approaches to better support student autonomy, identity, and growth.

Bio:

Lauren Rosenbaum Ed.S. is a practitioner in her twelfth year as a school psychologist, and in her seventh year at Perkins School for the Blind. Her main interests lie in working with complex communicators and students with low-incidence disabilities, and application of neurodiversity-affirming practices in assessment and counseling. She identifies as neurodivergent herself, and is invested in broadening the school psychology field to be more welcoming and supportive of neurodivergent practitioners and graduate students. Lauren co-leads the NASP Neurodiversity Interest Group, and is actively involved in the NASP BVIPsych Interest Group.

Meredith Edelstein PhD, LEP, NCSP is in her 15th year working as a school psychologist in Massachusetts. She is passionate about neurodiversity affirming practice and has specific interests in disability identity development in early to mid childhood. Meredith worked in the public schools for 8 years and then transitioned to private practice work, where she provides assessment, counseling, and consultation services to local schools and families. Meredith is also an assistant teaching professor at Tufts University, teaching classes on assessment, law and ethics, and third year supervision. Meredith co-leads the NASP Neurodiversity Interest Group and also leads the Neurodiversity Affinity Group for the Tufts school psychology program.

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