Implementing PDA-Affirming Educational Psychologist Assessments

Carrying out assessments with young people with high demand avoidance provide Educational Psychologists with an ethical dilemma…. How do we ensure equal opportunity to a fair assessment, when the assessment scenario involves demands and typically evokes a stress response for young people with high demand avoidance?  What if there were adjustments we could make, to help those with high demand avoidance be fully included in giving their views and having their strengths and needs identified, during our assessments?

Join neurodivergent Educational Psychologist Dr Joanne Riordan for this popular online half-day CPD webinar.  Joanne specialises in supporting neurodivergent young people with high demand avoidance, and is a listed supplier with the PDA Society. 

Covering:

• Practical ways to adapt Educational Psychology assessments, to help young people with high demand avoidance engage & feel safe
• How to adapt our recommendations to the needs of young people with high demand avoidance

This webinar will be fully neuro-affirming. It will include the voices of young PDAers, so we can learn from their lived experience.

This webinar is recorded.

When: online 1.30pm-4pm on 23rd April 2026

Cost £95

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