ADHDUK podcast

We are joined this week by Collette Easton, who used her years of experience on 'both sides of the desk' of HR conversations to do an amazing bit of citizen science.

She is also a tech starter! check out Loops below

LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/colletteeaston/ 

The research can be downloaded https://colletteeaston.com/research

Insta @loops.work

The app store https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/loops-adhd-goals-with-a-buddy/id6784126787

Loops website www.loops.work

YouTube @colletteEaston

We welcome our very own educational lead, Chris Benson.

Chris is an ex-headteacher who writes extensively on ADHD in education, from his own experience as well as his professional expertise. He knows the patch, inside and out.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbenson-uk/ for more!!

We are joined by the tremendous Kelly Jarvis- ex-headteacher and head of consultancy at Sunshine Support, to discuss what her organisation calls school avoidance, and the rest of the system calls school refusal.

After this conversation, I'm with Kelly!

We also talk about the challenge of translating diagnosis to strategies, and what burn out is (and isn't)

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?