Zoë Austin – Stimming World: Understanding and embracing neurodivergent stimming

In this webinar, neurodivergent educator Zoë Austin will delve into the often misunderstood world of neurodivergent stimming (short for ‘self-stimulation’). She will explain how different sensory stims may appear, why we stim, and why, above all, we should never prevent children from engaging in this essential behaviour.

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About the speaker

Zoë Austin is a freelance neurodivergent educator living in Cambridgeshire and working across East Anglia. She divides her time between providing group and individual music sessions, 1:1 tutoring for autistic/ADHD school-age children, mentoring autsitic/ADHD university students, and writing/presenting on the subjects of neurodiversity, child development, and music-making. Part of the Pen Green Schema Group, she contributed to the book Schemas in the Early Years (Routledge, 2022), and presented on ‘Schema theory and children’s emerging musicality’ at EECERA, 2023. Zoë uses her past experiences as a (Pen Green-trained) classroom teacher, Music Therapist and working in children’s social services to inform her position as a holistic practitioner, creating learning opportunities to meet the needs of the individual child as a whole person.

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