a re-upload with better audio!

Ash Ruddy, Chief Growth Officer for Neuly AI, discusses the AI companion app for parents of neurodivergent children.

Ash describes everything that goes into the system, and the saefguards built in, before we talk about sustainability, agreeableness, accountability and evaluation.
AI is a contentious topic, and we have tried to do it justice in this very specific application.

If you want to try out neuly, there's a free trial at https://dev.neuly.ai/adhduk

Ash Ruddy, Chief Growth Officer for Neuly AI, discusses the AI companion app for parents of neurodivergent children.

Ash describes everything that goes into the system, and the saefguards built in, before we talk about sustainability, agreeableness, accountability and evaluation.
AI is a contentious topic, and we have tried to do it justice in this very specific application.

If you want to try out neuly, there's a free trial at https://dev.neuly.ai/adhduk

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to Newly and Personal Experience
• 02:17 Newly: An AI Companion for Parents
• 03:13 Understanding the Individual Profile of a Child
• 05:55 Conceptualizing and Classifying the Needs of the Child
• 06:23 Positive Language and Strengths-Based Approach
• 09:09 Rigorous Screening and Clinical Validation of Strategies
• 11:12 Environmental Impact and Sustainability
• 16:12 Challenging and Supporting Parents
• 20:19 Accountability and Safety Measures
• 22:24 AI Support and Parental Isolation
• 25:25 Comparison with Other Models of Parent Support
• 29:29 Professional Reception and Third-Party Evaluation

We are joined by David Levy from https://adhdcounselling.uk/ to talk about the usefulness of counselling in people's ADHD journey, and the difficulty of fitting this into the medical narrative.

We also talk about his brilliant mental health fanzine https://theframemagazine.co.uk/ which I strongly recommend

We are joined by Amelia Draper from Changing Futures Nottingham to talk about the complex relationship between ADHD and homelessness, and what we can do to support people in their journeys to prevent this outcome.

See https://www.nottinghamcvs.co.uk/projects/practice-development-unit/learning-series/neurodivergence for more!

All three of us for this one, as we take on the Channel 4 documentary "The great ADHD myth?"

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/new-channel-4-documentary-great-adhd-myth-seeks-determine-whether-adhd-genuine

If you have been affected by the documentary there is support at ADHDUK, and we also have survey!

https://adhduk.co.uk/challenging-c4-the-great-adhd-myth/reaction-survey/

We are delighted to be joined by two researchers from University College Dublin who have taken a systematic view of the data on adult ADHD diagnosis, a subject close to all our hearts!

It's a wide-ranging chat with a great celebratory moment at the end!

Their paper, for those who want to dig in, is here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42216788/

The rumpelstiltskin paper is also open access: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13150541/

Science is great, isn't it?

Something a little different this week!

We are planning to launch a new feed for our ADHD ambassadors to share their lived experience, and as a preview of this, and to celebrate Pride, here is a conversation with Dhiren and Kathleen about the intersection of ADHD and LGBT+ idenitities!

Back to normal programming next week!

We welcome Dean Paton, founder and CEO of Big Heritage, to talk about his journey with ADHD, his passion for history and archaeology, and how he ended up owning a U-Boat!

Check out the great stuff they are doing at https://bigheritage.co.uk/

Donate at www.adhd.co.uk/donate

Max is joined by Sarah Rudebeck, who studied memory as a clinical psychologist, noticed how many bad products there are out there to support memory (or not) and decided to build her own!

The paper we talk about is https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7210977/