All Things Considered

Faith and Neurodiversity


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Neurodivergency is an umbrella term that includes people with Tourette’s, Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia and more. To mark ‘Neurodiversity Celebration Week’ Jonathan Thomas asks whether faith communities do enough to support people with additional needs.

Pembrokeshire born artist and writer Sophie Killingley has recently been commissioned to write a book, ‘Blessed are the Neurodivergent’. She shares her experience of raising her two Autistic children, and how churches could be more welcoming to all.

We visit ‘Little Cherubs’ in the Rhondda Valley, a group set up by Hannah Leyshon to support neurodiverse children and their families. We’ll hear from Methodist minister Jon Miller in Carmarthenshire, who’s found that his adult diagnosis has helped him understand how his mind works, and also to value the strengths neurodiversity can bring. We’ll ask what churches can do to be more accommodating to neurodiverse people, with advice from Anne Laure Jackson who runs a Sensory Healthy Church programme to help churches to be more inclusive. We hear from Emily Prance at St. Mark's Church in Cardiff about the changes they've made to help families with additional needs.

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